libvirtd service alias in Ubuntu Xenial is not working

[Rodolfo Alonso]

libvirtd service in Ubuntu Xenial was named libvirt-bin. Current version service name is now libvirtd.service.

Alias in libvirtd service is not working:
[Install]
Alias=libvirt-bin.service

Error:
root@controller:~# systemctl start libvirt-bin.service
Failed to start libvirt-bin.service: Unit libvirt-bin.service not found.

root@controller:~# cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="16.04.5 LTS (Xenial Xerus)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS"
VERSION_ID="16.04"
HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
VERSION_CODENAME=xenial
UBUNTU_CODENAME=xenial

[Dr. Jens Harbott (j-harbott)]

Is this still an issue? Can you explain in detail how this relates to devstack?

[Rodolfo Alonso (rodolfo-alonso-hernandez)]

Hello:

Yes, according to [1].

But this is the service installed in my system:
root@osdev16:~# systemctl | grep libvirt
  libvirt-guests.service loaded active exited Suspend/Resume Running libvirt Guests
  libvirtd.service loaded active running Virtualization daemon

root@osdev16:~# cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="16.04.6 LTS (Xenial Xerus)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS"
VERSION_ID="16.04"
HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
VERSION_CODENAME=xenial
UBUNTU_CODENAME=xenial

Regards.

[1] https://github.com/openstack/devstack/blob/master/lib/nova_plugins/functions-libvirt#L29

[Dr. Jens Harbott (j-harbott)]

Xenial is no longer supported.