diff --git a/src/logging/virtlogd.service.in b/src/logging/virtlogd.service.in
index 82879941eff9a7941c8e6bd689b0b4e35ed5f9e9..09e07401499747f32f96a86444a5c338960f5d40 100644
--- a/src/logging/virtlogd.service.in
+++ b/src/logging/virtlogd.service.in
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 Description=Virtual machine log manager
 Requires=virtlogd.socket
 Before=libvirtd.service
-PartOf=libvirtd.service
 Documentation=man:virtlogd(8)
 Documentation=http://libvirt.org
 
diff --git a/src/logging/virtlogd.socket.in b/src/logging/virtlogd.socket.in
index efb6504f7a5693e602d864c83a0223d23acc2bab..22b9360c8dcf5f336fd1deee2a43098ded1bceea 100644
--- a/src/logging/virtlogd.socket.in
+++ b/src/logging/virtlogd.socket.in
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 [Unit]
 Description=Virtual machine log manager socket
 Before=libvirtd.service
-PartOf=libvirtd.service
 
 [Socket]
 ListenStream=@localstatedir@/run/libvirt/virtlogd-sock