I'm trying to install xen on a debian 7 x86 virtualbox guest. My setup is based on cloudstack's devcloud2 [1] The main xen packages I'm installing are: apt-get install xcp-networkd linux-headers-3.2.0-4-686-pae xen-hypervisor-4.1-i386 xcp-xapi xcp-xe xcp-guest-templates xcp-vncterm xen-tools blktap-utils blktap-dkms qemu-keymaps qemu-util After rebooting the machine and running '$ xe vm-list', I get the error: Connection refused (calling connect ) I've added some debug output here [2] Any pointers will be appreciated! Many thanks, Chris --- [1] http://bhaisaab.org/logs/devcloud/ [2] https://github.com/snowch/devcloud/issues/2