stopping / restarting libvirt on Ubuntu 16.04 with systemd
Because systemd is the greatest thing ever it's not enough to stop the libvirt service. You need to disable the libvirt socket too.
sudo systemctl stop libvirt-bin
sudo systemctl stop libvirt-bin.socket
sudo systemctl start libvirt-bin
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