On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 11:14:29PM +0530, satyaakam goswami wrote: > 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 What user did you run it as ? Does 'virsh list' work ? What Xen version, kernel version & architecture. Finally what libvirt version Regards, Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|