Hi Maththias, Thanks for the help. I finally was able to compile/install libvirt on xenserver. I tried compiling the libvirt 0.9.2 with xen api support. Was able to install it successfully. When I tried giving the virsh command, I got an ‘authentication failed’ error as shown below. # virsh -c xenapi://<my local ip> Enter username for <mylocalip>: root Enter intel123's password for <my local ip>: error: authentication failed: (null) I also tried connecting to the local machine as below, virsh -c "xenapi:///" error: authentication failed: Server name not in URI error: failed to connect to the hypervisor What am I missing here? Also I am trying to install ruby-libvirt on xenserver, which looks like requires libvirt-devel package to be installed. How do I build it from the libvirt 0.9.2 source package. Thanks, Naresh On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Matthias Bolte < matthias.bolte@googlemail.com> wrote:
2011/6/15 G Naresh Kumar <naresh.gadepalli@gmail.com>:
Hi Maththias,
Thanks a lot for your response!.
Is there a specific version of libvirt from which xenserver support is added? I am getting the below error
"error: invalid argument in libvirt was built without the 'xenapi' driver"
The means that your libvirt version is new enough and contains the XenAPI driver but that it was disabled on configure time, probably because the build server didn't have libxenserver installed and libvirt's configure script automatically disabled the driver because of a missing dependency.
I have installed libvirt from citrix yum repo.
Then Citrix build libvirt without XenAPI support. As a long term solution you could report to whom ever is responsible for that repo and request to enabled XenAPI support in that libvirt package. As a short term solution you could build libvirt from source yourself and make sure to get the XenAPI driver enabled.
I am using Xenserver 5.5 with libvirt 0.8.2 and it does not seem to be working.
According to http://libvirt.org/hvsupport.html and the error message 0.8.2 is new enough.
Matthias
Thanks,
Naresh
On Jun 15, 2011 7:03 PM, "Matthias Bolte" <matthias.bolte@googlemail.com
2011/6/15 G Naresh Kumar <naresh.gadepalli@gmail.com>:
Hi, Is libvirt supported on Citrix Xenserver. I have been searching for the same with little/no luck. If supported, can you point to some links/documents which can help me
wrote: try
out the same. Thanks, Naresh
libvirt can use XenAPI via libxenserver [1]. That should allow you to use libvirt with a Citrix XenServer. You can use virsh like this assuming you have a libxenserver enabled libvirt:
virsh -c xenapi://my-xen-server
But it's true, there is no documentation about this on the libvirt website yet.
[1] http://community.citrix.com/display/xs/Download+SDKs
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