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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stopping / restarting libvirt on Ubuntu 16.04 with systemd