Xen Support

D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up

Omer Segev — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 10:09:44 +0000

I tried to launch virt-manager today on a new Centos installation and got the following error message: hostmaster ~ # virt-manager process 9741: D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to read machine uuid: Failed to open "/var/lib/dbus/machine-id": No such file or directory See the manual page for dbus-uuidgen to correct this issue. [...]

virt-manager shows scrambled text

Omer Segev — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 10:04:30 +0000

I am using Xming with SSH, and today I installed CentOS 6 and tried to launch virt-manager with XForward. The menu text opened and the text was scrambled as you can see in the attached screenshot: To solution was to install xorg-x11-font* yum install xorg-x11-font* Hope you will find it useful

Unable to connect to xend with Virt Manager

Omer Segev — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:27:50 +0000

When you install xen with the default settings and try to connect to the Xen hypervisor with virt-manager You might get the following error message : Unable to open a connection to the Xen hypervisor/daemon. Verify that - a xen host kernel was booted - the xen service has been started The default Xen configuration [...]

Debian Squeeze – “/usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm not found”

Omer Segev — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:02:39 +0000

When trying to use virt-manager with Xen 4 on Debian Squeeze, I ran into the following error when I tried to create a new VM: (xend.err "Error creating domain: device model '/usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm' not found")' Virt-manager is trying to look for qemu-dm executable at a different location than it is. A quick fix is to create [...]

Citrix XenServer VM fail to shutdown

Omer Segev — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:02:44 +0000

Occasionally I run into an issue where I try to turn off a virtual machine from XenCenter/CLI and it hangs “shutting down”. “Force” shutdown/reboot options are disabled at this point In that case you need to cancel the task through the XenServer Shell. 1. Log in to the Xen host that runs the VM. 2. [...]

HowTo Create a FreeBSD 8 i386 Xen PV domU

Omer Segev — Tue, 04 May 2010 05:42:01 +0000

Hi, I’m currnetlly working on a large virtual environment which will run many types of operating systems. After some research, I found this Thread in the FreeBSD Forum, which deals with the installation of FreeBSD DomU on a Debian Dom0. From the post: The goal of this guide is to show you how to create [...]