.TH FENCE_AGENT 8 2010-01-05 "fence_virtd (Fence Agent)"
.SH NAME
fence_virtd - Fencing host for virtual machines

.SH DESCRIPTION
.P
fence_virtd is a host daemon designed to route fencing requests for
virtual machines.

Fence_virt and fence_xvm talk to fence_virtd, which supports multiple backend plugins, including:
 - libvirt for single-node operation
 - Corosync CPG and libvirt when using Linux-cluster release 3.0.0 or later
 - libvirt-qpid for multi-node, non-cluster operation

For compatibility, fence_xvm from linux-cluster release 2 may talk to fence_virtd.

.P
fence_virtd accepts a few options on the command line, but most options
are read from fence_virt.conf.

.SH PARAMETERS
.TP
.B -d
. 
Specify debug level, e.g. "-d99"

.TP
.B -c
. 
Interactively prompt user for configuration information

.TP
.B -f
. 
Specify an alternate configuration file instead of /etc/fence_virt.conf

.TP
.B -F
. 
Do not fork into background after starting (overrides any setting in fence_virt.conf)

.TP
.B -w
. 
Wait for backend to be available (overrides any setting in fence_virt.conf)

.TP
.B -p
. 
Specify the full path to the pid file used to record the active process pid.

.SH SEE ALSO
fence_virt(8), fence_xvm(8), fence(8), fence_virt.conf(5)