I thought that you would not allow vdsm-specific configuration such as this before registration to rhev-m. If I knew that you would, we could have done this configuration on vdsm post script...

libvirtd upstart job is useful in general, nothing vdsm specific about it, but since vdsmd was using sysv initscript, we couldn't use it before.
How would your post script look like?

libvirt refused to make upstart their default in RHEL-6; I guess their reasoning could apply to rhevm-less rhevh.

Anyway, I guess the post script could be not very different from what we currently do on vdsmd startup. Hmmm, but we cannot use it in RHEL where libvirt version (and the location of the upstart script) may change in time.

start_libvirtd() {
    local packaged installed target
    local startout

    packaged=`/bin/rpm -ql libvirt | /bin/grep libvirtd.upstart | \
                 /usr/bin/tail -1`
    target=/etc/init/libvirtd.conf
    installed=`/bin/readlink -f "$target"`

    if [[ "$packaged" != "$installed" ]];
    then
        /bin/ln -sf "$packaged" "$target" || return 1
        /sbin/initctl reload-configuration
    fi

    startout=`/sbin/initctl start libvirtd 2>&1`
    if [[ "$?" -eq 0 || "$startout" =~ .*already\ running.* ]];
    then
        return 0
    else
        echo "$startout" >&2
        return 1
    fi
}

(In reply to comment #3)
> libvirt refused to make upstart their default in RHEL-6; I guess their
> reasoning could apply to rhevm-less rhevh.

Their reasoning is fine for RHEL-6 in general (it would be unexpected change for the users mid-release) but rhevh is a blackbox (also 6.x wasn't public yet) and I'm confident in using libvirtd upstart job there.

Actually in RHEV-H we must configure upstart job during image creation, vdsmd code in comment 3 will create dangling symlink on the running RHEV-H:
/etc/init/libvirtd.conf -> /usr/share/doc/libvirt-0.9.2/libvirtd.upstart

Files marked %doc are not installed in the RHEV-H image (%packages --excludedocs)

*** Bug 726323 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

>     start_needed_srv && start_libvirtd

Reopening, the above line should've been patched in rhevh kickstart.

According to comment 16, verified this bug on rhev-hypervisor 6.2-0.14, have removed /etc/rc.d/init.d/libvirtd, and updated /etc/rc.d/init.d/vdsmd with libvirt things.

# grep -i start_libvirt /etc/init.d/vdsmd
start_libvirtd() {

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1783.html