Hello
I am trying a new xen installation, with Debian testing + Xen 4.1
(provided by the distribution)
I use the xl stack, as it was reported that the xm stack is obsolete.
Consequently, the xend daemon does not start when the server boots.
However, I would like to use the libvirt tools (the distribution ones,
too) to manage the guests: virt-install, etc. BUT when I start one of
those tools, it says that it cannot connect the localhost:8000.
I found the fix:
1/ change the parameter: (xend-unix-server yes) in the file
/etc/xen/xend-config.sxp
2/ Start xend
BUT is there any better choice, rather than using an obsolete daemon for
using libvirt ?
Thanks in advance,
Emmanuel C.
On Mon, 2012-08-27 at 20:21 +0100, Emmanuel COURCELLE wrote:> Hello > > I am trying a new xen installation, with Debian testing + Xen 4.1 > (provided by the distribution) > I use the xl stack, as it was reported that the xm stack is obsolete. > Consequently, the xend daemon does not start when the server boots. > > However, I would like to use the libvirt tools (the distribution ones, > too) to manage the guests: virt-install, etc. BUT when I start one of > those tools, it says that it cannot connect the localhost:8000. > > I found the fix: > 1/ change the parameter: (xend-unix-server yes) in the file > /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp > 2/ Start xend > > BUT is there any better choice, rather than using an obsolete daemon for > using libvirt ?IIRC the was a libxl plugin for libvirt targeting the Xen 4.1 version of libxl and it was accepted by libvirt upstream. However I don''t know which (if any) libvirt releases it was part of nor if they are included in the libvirt packaging in Debian. Probably one for the Debian libvirt maintainer. Ian.
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 09:21:52PM +0200, Emmanuel COURCELLE wrote:> Hello > > I am trying a new xen installation, with Debian testing + Xen 4.1 > (provided by the distribution) > I use the xl stack, as it was reported that the xm stack is obsolete. > Consequently, the xend daemon does not start when the server boots. > > However, I would like to use the libvirt tools (the distribution > ones, too) to manage the guests: virt-install, etc. BUT when I > start one of those tools, it says that it cannot connect the > localhost:8000. > > I found the fix: > 1/ change the parameter: (xend-unix-server yes) in the file > /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp > 2/ Start xend > > BUT is there any better choice, rather than using an obsolete daemon > for using libvirt ? >xl/libxl is greatly improved in Xen 4.2, so you could use the libvirt libxl driver with Xen 4.2. In xen 4.1 you probably still want to use xm/xend. -- Pasi