[et-mgmt-tools] virt-manager error in Fedora8+xen3.2

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:56:38AM +0800, fan he wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm sorry for this repeated question, but i failed to start my virt-manager
> in Fedora8+xen3.2, error shows like:
> 
> Unable to open connection to hypervisor URI 'xen:///':
> <class 'libvirt.libvirtError'> virConnectOpenReadOnly() failed
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 307, in
> _open_thread
>     self.vmm = libvirt.openReadOnly(self.uri)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 148, in
> openReadOnly
>     if ret is None:raise libvirtError('virConnectOpenReadOnly() failed')
> libvirtError: virConnectOpenReadOnly() failed
> 
> I download and install xen3.2 on Fedora8 successfully.
> 
> There is always a warning ask me to disable tls in /lib/tls before the OS
> begining, though making initrd.img after mv /lib/tls /lib/tls.disable and
> i am sure the Dom0 works well. I use "yum install virt-manager" to setup
> virt-manager and it should be the lastest version. I restart the xend with
> no error.

Ignore the /lib/tls warning - that hasn't been relevant for years. You
probably don't have Xend listening for connections. You need

(xend-unix-server yes)

Set in /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp

Daniel
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