Re: [libvirt] [libvirt-users] Not able to open Xen Connection using libvirt

On mer, 2013-06-19 at 21:33 +0530, varun bhatnagar wrote: Well, that is not true, and it's even been a while now! :-P Fact is the Xen architecture requires that the first thing that boots --i.e., the thing that sees and run on the actual hardware-- is the Xen Hypervisor. At some point, the hypervisor itself will pick up a kernel and use it to build a special VM, called Dom0, from where you can run the control pane, create more VMs, etc. It is true that, a while ago, this kernel had to be a special modified version of Linux. As of now (starting from Linux 3.0), it can be any Linux kernel image you have in your boot partition. So, in summary, yes, you have to reboot and choose the proper bootloader menu entry, after installing Xen, but that does not mean that you need also a special Linux kernel. Not anymore. :-) Regards, Dario -- <<This happens because I choose it to happen!>> (Raistlin Majere) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dario Faggioli, Ph.D, http://about.me/dario.faggioli Senior Software Engineer, Citrix Systems R&D Ltd., Cambridge (UK)