[libvirt-users] Xen died - Fedora upgrade from 21 to 26

[Jim Fehlig]

On 07/26/2017 04:46 AM, G Crowe wrote:
> Jim,
>      Thanks for that, I had manually installed libvirt-daemon-driver-xen, but 
> also needed to install libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl. I can now create VMs and 
> convert config formats.
> 
> However the daemon still fails to start on bootup. It starts fine when I 
> manually start it with "systemctl start libvirtd" but setting it to autostart 
> with "systemctl enable libvirtd" seems to have no effect. When I look at the 
> status, it tells me that the service is "enabled" which means that it starts on 
> bootup (well, that's what it means for any other service).

I think you'll need to debug the startup problem via systemd, e.g. using 
systemd-analyze. Perhaps it is not starting do to conflicts with other services, 
e.g. xendomains. Do you also have xendomains service enabled? If so, disable it 
since it should not be used with libvirt.

Regards,
Jim