hi, i cleared all the stuffs(everything) related to xen and libvirt. i installed freshly xen-4.2.1 from the source. *Installation steps are as follows:* apt-get build-dep xen apt-get install libc6-dev libglib2.0-dev libyajl-dev yajl-tools libbz2-dev bison flex zlib1g-dev git-core texinfo debhelper debconf-utils debootstrap fakeroot *OR* apt-get install bcc bin86 gawk bridge-utils iproute libcurl3 libcurl4-openssl-dev bzip2 module-init-tools transfig tgif tgif texinfo texlive-latex-base gcc-multilib texlive-fonts-extra texlive-fonts-recommended pciutils-dev mercurial libncurses5-dev patch libvncserver-dev libsdl-dev libjpeg62-dev iasl libbz2-dev git-core uuid-dev python python-dev python-twisted build-essential make gcc libc6-dev zlib1g-dev texlive-latex-recommended e2fslibs-dev *Download and build the source* wget http://bits.xensource.com/oss-xen/release/4.2.1/xen-4.2.1.tar.gz tar zxvf xen-4.2.1.tar.gz cd xen-4.2.1 - vi Config.mk edit the XSM_ENABLE = n --------> XSM_ENABLE= y - ./configure –enable-githttp --libdir=/usr/lib64 ( if it is 64 bit machine ) - vi ./.config # write this line -------- > PYTHON_PREFIX_ARG=--install-layout=deb # - make world - make deb - cd ./dist - ./install.sh - # Important - update-grub - ls -al /boot/xen* - update-rc.d xencommons defaults 19 18 - update-rc.d xendomains defaults 21 20 - update-rc.d xen-watchdog defaults 22 23 - update-grub *Configuration* *ln -s /etc/init.d/xendomains /etc/rc0.d/S10xendomains* *ln -s /etc/init.d/xendomains /etc/rc6.d/S10xendomains* *ln -s /etc/init.d/xencommons /etc/rc3.d/S98xencommons* *ln -s /etc/init.d/xendomains /etc/rc3.d/S98xendomains* *ln -s /root/xendom0caps /etc/rc3.d/S98xendom0caps* *ln -s /root/iptables-enable /etc/rc3.d/S99iptables-enable (not required)* *vi /root/xendom0caps (add xl sched-credit -d Domain-0 -w 512)* *chmod +x /root/xendom0caps* *vi /etc/rc.local (add /usr/bin/setterm -powersave off -blank 0* *vi /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp* *comment it --- > #network-script network-bridge* *vi /etc/network/interfaces* *auto xenbr0 * *iface xenbr0 inet dhcp* *bridge_ports eth0 * reboot * then i enter into the xen. *root@boss[/]#xl list* Name ID Mem VCPUs State Time(s) Domain-0 0 3476 8 r----- 614.7 _______________________ then i installed libvirt form the source and the installtion steps are as follows: * ./autogen.sh --system --with-xen=yes --with-libxl=yes * make * make install and then i runned daemon/libvirtd -d then i runned *tools/virsh * *virsh # version* Compiled against library: libvirt 1.1.3 Using library: libvirt 1.1.3 Using API: QEMU 1.1.3 error: failed to get the hypervisor version error: internal error: Cannot find suitable emulator for x86_64 - - - - - - - - - - - - then i started the xend by following command: /etc/init.d/xend start then i checked libvirt(virsh) virsh # version Compiled against library: libvirt 1.1.3 Using library: libvirt 1.1.3 Using API: Xen 1.1.3 Running hypervisor: Xen 4.2.0 ******* i dont know how to enable the xl with libvirt. Anyone guide me.. regards, cooldharma06.