Xend and libvirt

Daniel P. Berrangé berrange at redhat.com
Mon Aug 3 09:08:15 UTC 2020


On Sat, Aug 01, 2020 at 04:51:57PM +0300, David K. Kahurani wrote:
> Hello
> 
> On a probably a few days old build of libvirt, it is not possible to connect to my local system.
> 
> The command used is:
> 
>    $virsh -c xen:///system 
> 
> The errors can be seen from libvirtd logs[1] an interesting part being:
> "
>  Aug 01 16:30:13 metal libvirtd[1680]: Failed to connect socket to '/var/run/libvirt/virtxend-sock':>
> Aug 01 16:30:13 metal libvirtd[1680]: End of file while reading data: Input/output error "
> 
> From the log, libxl driver is trying to connect to a socket which is tagged xend.

This is the new virtxend daemon provided by libvirt, not the old XenD of years
gone by.

What args did you pass to configure ? We shouldn't be trying to connect to
this socket by default - we should be using libvirtd still - unless you
changed args to configure.

Regards,
Daniel
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