INTRODUCTION
libvirt-wakeonlan is a daemon which listens for wake on lan packets and starts libvirt based virtual machines.
INSTALLATION
RPM/DEB/Ebuild INSTALL ( Recommended )
Download and install the package for your distro from http://lvwol.niftiestsoftware.com ( coming soon ).
Refer to your own specific distribution instructions for how to install the package. Once installed, the daemon is installed as a standard service, refer to your distribution information on how to start and stop services, and ( if desired ) how to have it run automatically on boot.
SOURCE INSTALL
Clone the git repo:
git clone git://github.com/simoncadman/libvirt-wakeonlan.git
cd libvirt-wakeonlan/ ./configure make install
Run the daemon ( eg. service libvirt-wakeonlan start ).
CONFIGURATION
libvirt-wakeonlan listens on eth0 by default for Wake-on-lan packets, to change this, there is a configuration file for the libvirt-wakeonlan service ( in /etc/conf.d/ on Gentoo, /etc/sysconfig on Fedora and /etc/default on Debian ), within it is a parameter called "LIBVIRTDWOL_INTERFACE" which specifies the interface used.
DEVELOPING
Before commiting to the git repository you should set up the pre-commit hook, this ensures the version numbers in the scripts are updated:
ln -s ../../pre-commit.py .git/hooks/pre-commit
Copyright
Software and icon are copyright Simon Cadman and licenced under GNU GPL v3 ( http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html ).