On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 02:02:20PM -0400, Hany Fahim wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm currently running a few servers with CentOS 5.3 (i386) with the stock
> Xen version:
>
> # rpm -q kernel-xen xen libvirt
> kernel-xen-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5
> kernel-xen-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5
> xen-3.0.3-80.el5_3.2
> libvirt-0.6.3-1
>
> libvirt was compiled from the src RPM from
libvirt.org to run on i386
> architecture without issue. I'm having a problem when trying to connect to
> remote Xen installations using versions of libvirt starting from 0.5.0 and
> above. When issuing virsh commands to query the local instance, it works
> without issue, but any remote sources gives 'error: failed to connect to the
> hypervisor'. Here's what LIBVIRT_DEBUG reveals:
>
> # LIBVIRT_DEBUG=6 virsh -d 5 -c xen://node3/ list
> command: "list "
> 13:53:17.133: debug : do_open:930 : trying driver 0 (Test) ...
> 13:53:17.133: debug : do_open:936 : driver 0 Test returned DECLINED
> 13:53:17.133: debug : do_open:930 : trying driver 1 (Xen) ...
> 13:53:17.133: debug : do_open:936 : driver 1 Xen returned DECLINED
> 13:53:17.133: debug : do_open:930 : trying driver 2 (OPENVZ) ...
> 13:53:17.133: debug : do_open:936 : driver 2 OPENVZ returned DECLINED
> 13:53:17.133: debug : do_open:930 : trying driver 3 (VBOX) ...
> 13:53:17.133: debug : do_open:936 : driver 3 VBOX returned DECLINED
> 13:53:17.133: debug : do_open:930 : trying driver 4 (remote) ...
> 13:53:17.133: debug : do_open:936 : driver 4 remote returned DECLINED
> 13:53:17.133: debug : virUnrefConnect:210 : unref connection 0x93275d0 1
> 13:53:17.134: debug : virReleaseConnect:171 : release connection 0x93275d0
> error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
It looks very much like the remote driver is failing to connect to the remote