libvirt users - Sep 2013 - Re: Does libvirt support xapi/xe toolstack?

Hello,

I installed the last version of Xen (xenserver-core-0.9.0-9.x86_64 from 
yum) and I'm trying to manage my VMs with virsh. The version that I 
installed is using the Xapi/xe toolstack. The problem I have is that 
I'm not seeing the VM that is started with "virsh -c xen:/// list 
--all". Here is what I have:

root# xe vm-list uuid ( RO)           : 022226ed-07be-37fc-5b52-f798320e2726
     name-label ( RW): vm1
    power-state ( RO): running


uuid ( RO)           : 394fa633-f600-45f9-bea7-3bf4a9fd06fd
     name-label ( RW): Control domain on host: unknown
    power-state ( RO): running


root# virsh -c xen:/// list --all
Id    Name                           State
----------------------------------------------------

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According to [1] it seems that libvirt is using Xend daemon to 
communicate. The problem is that Xend is now deprecated since Xen 4.1. 
So am I wrong with this assumption or is there something to configure 
to be able to use libvirt with Xapi/XE toolstack? I looked in the 
documentation but I only found [2] but I didn't see any special 
settings...

Regards,
Guillaume [1]   http://libvirt.org/architecture.html
[2]   http://libvirt.org/drvxen.html

Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@polymtl.ca> a écrit :
> According to [1] it seems that libvirt is using Xend daemon to communicate.
After reading more documentation it seems that Xend is mandatory. As 
everything is not up to date I'd like to know if it is still the case 
or if there are some possibilities to use XL instead of Xend?

Best regards,
Guillaume

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 10:49:10AM +0200, Guillaume Thouvenin
wrote:
> Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@polymtl.ca> a écrit :
> 
> >According to [1] it seems that libvirt is using Xend daemon to
communicate.
> 
> After reading more documentation it seems that Xend is mandatory. As
> everything is not up to date I'd like to know if it is still the
> case or if there are some possibilities to use XL instead of Xend?
If you have new enough libvirt and Xen >= 4.2 then libvirt will automatically
use the libxl APIs instead of XenD.


Daniel
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