installed xen-unstable , and xend is running # xm list Name ID Mem VCPUs State Time(s) Domain-0 0 0 4 r----- 985.9 when i try to run virt-install i get the following error Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 630, in ? main() File "/usr/bin/virt-install", line 489, in main conn = libvirt.open(options.connect) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 100, in open if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpen() failed') libvirt.libvirtError: virConnectOpen() failed cheers Satya