Xend and libvirt

Daniel P. Berrangé berrange at redhat.com
Mon Aug 3 11:03:20 UTC 2020


On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 01:44:30PM +0300, K. Kahurani wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 12:08 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> >
> 
> configure was not directly used but rather autogen. ./autogen --system

I expect you've not started libvirtd and it failed to conenct, as so tried
falling back to virtxend which also isn't running.


Regards,
Daniel
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