On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 01:23:19PM +0530, satyaakam goswami wrote: > On 5/11/07, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >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 > > i ran it as root user, i cheked out xen-unstable tree and built , i am > trying it on RHEL 5.0 , AMD x86_64, SUN x2200 . Hmm, did you remove the kernl-xen & xen RPMs that come with RHEL 5 before installing the custom xen-unstable code ? In general its neccessary to have perfectly matched versions of the hypervisor, kernel & userspace. Also, did you install xen-unstable into regular /usr, or into a different directory prefix ? libvirt assumes it is in /usr when looking for the various control sockets to xend, xenstored, etc > virsh list gives the following errors > #virsh list > virsh: error: failed to connect to the hypervisor strace virsh list would be useful info. I suspect its failing to open one of the Xen daemon sockets. Until virsh list works, virt-install definitely won't. 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 -=|