Hi, Im having problems in starting xend in FC5. Below are the steps i performed to start it and i get "connection refused error". Please let me know if i miss something and help me in solving the issue. OS Version : [root@ramesh ~]# uname -a Linux rvrameshbabu 2.6.16-1.2111_FC5xen0 #1 SMP Thu May 4 21:51:32 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Xen version : [root@ramesh ~]# rpm -qa | grep xen xen-3.0.1-4 kernel-xenU-2.6.16-1.2111_FC5 kernel-xen0-devel-2.6.16-1.2111_FC5 kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.16-1.2111_FC5 kernel-xen0-2.6.16-1.2111_FC5 Steps performed : [root@ramesh ~]# xend start [root@ramesh ~]# tail -90 /var/log/xend.log [2006-05-15 17:45:00 xend] INFO (SrvDaemon:285) Xend Daemon started [2006-05-15 17:45:00 xend] INFO (SrvDaemon:289) Xend changeset: unavailable . [2006-05-15 17:45:00 xend] ERROR (SrvDaemon:299) Exception starting xend ((111, 'Connection refused')) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/server/SrvDaemon.py", line 293, in run servers = SrvServer.create() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/server/SrvServer.py", line 106, in create root.putChild('xend', SrvRoot()) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/server/SrvRoot.py", line 40, in __init__ self.get(name) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xen/web/SrvDir.py", line 82, in get val = val.getobj() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xen/web/SrvDir.py", line 52, in getobj self.obj = klassobj() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/server/SrvDomainDir.py", line 39, in __init__ self.xd = XendDomain.instance() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomain.py", line 550, in instance inst.init() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomain.py", line 70, in init xstransact.Mkdir(VMROOT) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/xenstore/xstransact.py", line 317, in Mkdir complete(path, lambda t: t.mkdir(*args)) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/xenstore/xstransact.py", line 323, in complete t = xstransact(path) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/xenstore/xstransact.py", line 20, in __init__ self.transaction = xshandle().transaction_start() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/xenstore/xsutil.py", line 18, in xshandle xs_handle = xen.lowlevel.xs.xs() RuntimeError: (111, 'Connection refused') [root@ramesh ~]# ls -l /var/run/xen* -rwS--x--T 1 root root 5 May 15 17:45 /var/run/xenconsoled.pid -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 May 15 17:45 /var/run/xend.pid -rw------- 1 root root 5 May 15 17:45 /var/run/xenstore.pid /var/run/xenstored: total 0 srw------- 1 root root 0 May 15 17:45 socket srw-rw---- 1 root root 0 May 15 17:45 socket_ro [root@ramesh ~]# xm list Error: Error connecting to xend: No such file or directory. Is xend running? [root@ramesh ~]# thanks Ramesh