libvirt users - Mar 2013 - How to use xl (in place of xm) with libvirt 1.0.2 and Xen 4.2.1 in Ubuntu 13.04?

QUESTION:  What, if anything, can I do so that I can use xl (in place of
xm) with libvirt 1.0.2 and Xen 4.2.1 in Ubuntu 13.04?

BACKGROUND:  I am testing a fully updated (as of March 27) installation of
Ubuntu 13.04 that includes the following packages:

libvirt - version 1.0.2-0ubuntu9
xen-hypervisor-4.2-amd64 - version 4.2.1-0ubuntu1

Upon setting TOOLSTACK=xm in /etc/default/xen (as well as making a few
needed tweaks to /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp), libvirt and virt-manager worked
great.  Yippee!

I guess that I should be happy that the xm toolstack still works with Xen
4.2.1 and quit while I'm ahead, but...

According to libvirt's documentation:

"libxl: Starting with Xen 4.2, the legacy XenD/xm toolstack is deprecated
in favor of libxl, also commonly called libxenlight. libvirt supports this
new Xen toolstack via the libxl driver. If XenD is enabled, the legacy xen
driver consisting of the above mentioned channels will be used. If XenD is
disabled, the libxl driver will be used."

See http://libvirt.org/drvxen.html.

In view of the above, I attempted to use xl in place xm by setting
TOOLSTACK=xl in /etc/default/xen.   And after doing so (both with and
without, the above mentioned tweaks to /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp), I
recieved the following error when attempting to start virt-manager:

Unable to connect to libvirt.

unable to connect to 'localhost:8000': Connection refused

Verify that:
 - A Xen host kernel was booted
 - The Xen service has been started

Libvirt URI is: xen:///

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 1027,
in
_open_thread
    self.vmm = self._try_open()
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 1009,
in
_try_open
    flags)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 102, in
openAuth
    if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenAuth() failed')
libvirtError: unable to connect to 'localhost:8000': Connection refused
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Gizmo Chicken wrote:
> QUESTION:  What, if anything, can I do so that I can use xl (in place
> of xm) with libvirt 1.0.2 and Xen 4.2.1 in Ubuntu 13.04?
Ensure xend is *not* running and then restart libvirtd.  The libvirt
libxl driver will only load when xend is not running.
>
> BACKGROUND:  I am testing a fully updated (as of March 27)
> installation of Ubuntu 13.04 that includes the following packages:
>
> libvirt - version 1.0.2-0ubuntu9
> xen-hypervisor-4.2-amd64 - version 4.2.1-0ubuntu1
>
> Upon setting TOOLSTACK=xm in /etc/default/xen (as well as making a few
> needed tweaks to /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp), libvirt and virt-manager
> worked great.  Yippee!
>
> I guess that I should be happy that the xm toolstack still works with
> Xen 4.2.1 and quit while I'm ahead, but...
>
> According to libvirt's documentation:
>
> "libxl: Starting with Xen 4.2, the legacy XenD/xm toolstack is
> deprecated in favor of libxl, also commonly called libxenlight.
> libvirt supports this new Xen toolstack via the libxl driver. If XenD
> is enabled, the legacy xen driver consisting of the above mentioned
> channels will be used. If XenD is disabled, the libxl driver will be
> used." 
>
> See http://libvirt.org/drvxen.html.
>
> In view of the above, I attempted to use xl in place xm by setting
> TOOLSTACK=xl in /etc/default/xen.   And after doing so (both with and
> without, the above mentioned tweaks to /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp), I
> recieved the following error when attempting to start virt-manager:
>
> Unable to connect to libvirt.
>
> unable to connect to 'localhost:8000': Connection refused
Did the libxl driver even load?  There should be some evidence of that
in libvirtd.log.  Has your libvirt package been built with the libxl
driver enabled?

Regards,
Jim
>
> Verify that:
>  - A Xen host kernel was booted
>  - The Xen service has been started
>
> Libvirt URI is: xen:///
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line
1027,
> in _open_thread
>     self.vmm = self._try_open()
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line
1009,
> in _try_open
>     flags)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 102,
in
> openAuth
>     if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenAuth()
failed')
> libvirtError: unable to connect to 'localhost:8000': Connection
refused
>
>
>
>
>
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