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docs: compiling: Add notes on starting compiled libvirt daemons

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In the basic configuration with monolithic libvirtd users are required
to also start virtlogd. Add a general note with a specific example
hinting that this is needed.

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
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@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ Installing from distribution repositories
This is the recommended option to install libvirt. Libvirt is present in the
package repositories of all major distributions. Installing a package from the
package manager ensures that it's properly compiled, installed, and updated
during the lifecycle of the distribution.
package manager ensures that it's properly compiled, installed, started, and
updated during the lifecycle of the distribution.
For users who wish to use the most recent version, certain distributions also
allow installing the most recent versions of virtualization packages:
@ -150,6 +150,10 @@ It is also possible to run virsh directly from the build tree using the
/home/to/your/checkout/build
$ ./run ./tools/virsh ....
**Note:** The libvirt project provides `multiple daemons <daemons.html>`__ and
the above steps may replace only some of them with the custom compiled instances.
In most cases this should work but keep that fact in mind.
Installing compiled binaries
----------------------------
@ -178,3 +182,8 @@ putting **sudo** before it.
After installation you you **may** have to run ``ldconfig`` or a similar
utility to update your list of installed shared libs, or adjust the paths where
the system looks for binaries and shared libraries.
The libvirt project provides `multiple daemons <daemons.html>`__ based on your
configuration. You have to ensure that you start the appropriate processes for
the freshly installed libvirt to be usable (e.g. even monolithic ``libvirtd``
requires in most configurations that ``virtlogd`` is started).