[libvirt-users] Is libvirt supported on Citrix Xenserver?

[G Naresh Kumar]

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 at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 2011/6/15 G Naresh Kumar <naresh.gadepalli at 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 at googlemail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >> 2011/6/15 G Naresh Kumar <naresh.gadepalli at 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
> 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
> >>
> >> --
> >> Matthias Bolte
> >> http://photron.blogspot.com
> >
>



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