From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Fehlig Subject: Re: libxl and libvirt in Fedora (rawhide) Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:55:36 -0700 Message-ID: <50FDE388.8080604@suse.com> References: <1358419891.16718.146.camel@Abyss> <50F82020.6080100@suse.com> <1358550647.16718.250.camel@Abyss> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1358550647.16718.250.camel@Abyss> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Dario Faggioli Cc: virt , Cole Robinson , xen-devel , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , M A Young List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Dario Faggioli wrote: > On Thu, 2013-01-17 at 09:00 -0700, Jim Fehlig wrote: > >> Dario Faggioli wrote: >> >>> Hi Jim, >>> >>> I'm having some problems with the libvirt libxl driver you're working >>> on. More specifically, it does not seem to be working for me, at least >>> not in the form in which it comes out of the related Fedora package. >>> >>> If/When you have a minute, would it be possible to you to have a look >>> here: >>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=893699 >>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=893699#c10 ? >>> >>> >> Thanks for the bug ref, I've made a comment there. >> >> > Thanks. I replied myself, trying to provide some more information about > what's going on... > > >> As mentioned in the bug, the libxl driver will not load if xend is >> running. It appears xend is not running on your system, so hopefully >> there is something in your libvirtd logs telling why the driver did not >> load. >> >> > I'm not even sure whether xend is running or not! :-( As I wrote there, > even when I only see the xend status check, I have xm working, which > shouldn't happen without a proper xend running, right? > For those not following in the bug, the libxl driver executes '/usr/sbin/xend status' and refuses to load it xend is running. The problem here is that the status check causes xend to start! I can't reproduce the issue, so perhaps it is specific to the fedora packages. > Moreover, independently from whether I install the package or not, or > whether I kill/start xend manually, it looks indeed like the libxl > driver is not able to load itself. > Since checking xend status starts the service and returns that it is running, the driver won't load :). > Where should I look for the libvirtd logs you're mentioning? I've > checked in /var/log/libvirt/* and in /var/log/messages, without finding > anything interesting. Should I look somewhere else? Should I pass > additional parameter to any of the involved components? > See /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf for a nice set of logging controls. Regards, Jim