[Fedora-xen] Problems installing Xen

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:21:24AM -0500, Chip Motley wrote:
> Hello,
>  
> I set up my first dual boot with Fedora 6 and WinXp. The partitions were
> setup as shown below. My problem occurred after the installation of Xen.
> When I went to /boot/grub and looked at grub.conf there was no reference to
> Xen. I ran "Xend start" and received the following message:
>  
> ERROR: Could not obtain handle on privileged command interface (2 = No such
> file or directory)
> ERROR: Could not obtain handle on privileged command interface (2 = No such
> file or directory) Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/sbin/xend", line 49, in ?
> from xen.xend.server import SrvDaemon
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/server/SrvDaemon.py", line
> 21, in ?
> import relocate
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/server/relocate.py", line
> 26, in ?
> from xen.xend import XendDomain
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomain.py", line 33, in
> ?
> import XendDomainInfo
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", line 39,
> in ?
> import image
> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/xen/xend/image.py", line 36, in ?
> xc = xen.lowlevel.xc.xc()
> xen.lowlevel.xc.Error: (2, 'No such file or directory')

That error sugggests you're not running the Xen kernel - make sure you
have 'kernel-xen' installed in your host & that it was selected in grub.

> I looked in the Yum.log and found the following:
> Feb 15 01:42:04 Installed: xen-libs.i386 3.0.3-3.fc6 
> Feb 15 01:42:05 Installed: bridge-utils.i386 1.1-2 
> Feb 15 01:42:05 Installed: gnome-python2-gnomekeyring.i386 2.16.0-1.fc6 
> Feb 15 01:42:06 Installed: libvirt-python.i386 0.1.11-1.fc6 
> Feb 15 01:42:06 Installed: python-virtinst.noarch 0.98.0-1.fc6 
> Feb 15 01:42:12 Installed: libvirt.i386 0.1.11-1.fc6 
> Feb 15 01:42:14 Installed: virt-manager.i386 0.2.6-3.fc6 
> Feb 15 01:42:17 Installed: xen.i386 3.0.3-3.fc6
>  
> How do I install Xen correctly? PS I am new to Linux

'yum install kernel-xen'   is needed to get the kernel too.

Dan.
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