On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote:
On 03/15/2012 02:57 PM, Su Zhang wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to use virt-install to install domU image. However, I
> encountered the following issue. It seems that a connection driver is
> needed for Xen.
> I am new to both libvirt and Xen. Anyone have any ideas on what's wrong
> with the following error ?
>
>
>
> # virt-install --connect=xen:/// -p -d
> Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:17:55 DEBUG    Launched with command line:
> /usr/bin/virt-install --connect=xen:/// -p -d
> Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:17:55 DEBUG    Requesting libvirt URI xen:///
> Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:17:55 ERROR    no connection driver available for No
> connection for URI xen:///

This probably means that your copy of libvirt.so and libvirtd was built
without xen support.  What does

virsh --version=long

say?  Also, are you sure libvirtd is running?

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Eric Blake   eblake@redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org


Eric,

Here is the output:
# virsh --version=long
Virsh command line tool of libvirt 0.9.10
See web site at http://libvirt.org/

Compiled with support for:
 Hypervisors: Xen QEmu/KVM UML OpenVZ VirtualBox LXC Test
 Networking: Remote Daemon Network Bridging Nwfilter VirtualPort
 Storage: Dir Filesystem SCSI Multipath iSCSI LVM
 Miscellaneous: SELinux Secrets Debug

It seems that it does support Xen.

I am not sure if libvirtd is running so I use the following command to start it:

[root@XenTester srv]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/libvirtd start

But the same error is still there.

Am I using the right way to start libvirtd service? Are there any other possible reasons of this error?

Thanks,

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Su Zhang
Ph.D Candidate
Computing and Information Sciences
Kansas State University