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 # systemd service scripts
 
 these are preliminary and just here to let people play with `solo5-spt`, the seccomp-enabled backend for [Solo5](https://github.com/Solo5/solo5) on Linux.
+Note: The socket paths are hardcoded relative to the RuntimeDirectory (tmpdir).
+If you modify `Vmm_core.socket_path` you must modify the corresponding `.socket` file(s) in this directory.
 
 1) You need to build the `albatross` tooling in this repository
 2) To run unikernels, you need to build and install solo5-elftool and at least one of the tenders: solo5-hvt and solo5-spt. They can be installed somewhere in PATH or in /var/lib/albatross/.