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Following your suggestions (except 1) :-

1. Made direct port Xen 3.4.2 to Ubuntu Jaunty Server & applied ext4 patch for pygrub from Mark Johnson (MRJ)
2. Edited xend-config.sxp
   (xend-http-server yes)
# service xend restart
# ln -s /usr/local/bin/pygrub /usr/lib/xen-default/bin/pygrub
# apt-get install virt-manager libvirt-bin kvm
# export VIRSH_DEFAULT_CONNECT_URI="xen:///"
# apt-get install virt-viewer

root@ServerJaunty:/usr/lib/xen-default/bin# virsh -version
Connecting to uri: xen:///
0.6.1

Proceed with virt-install :-

root@ServerJaunty:~# virt-install -n VM12F -r 1024 -p --vnc --noautoconsole \
> -f /dev/sda3 -l http://192.168.1.41/f12 --debug

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:17:48 DEBUG    Using libvirt URI connect 'xen'
Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:17:48 DEBUG    Requesting virt method 'xen'
Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:17:48 DEBUG    Received virt method 'xen'
Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:17:48 DEBUG    Hypervisor type is 'xen'
Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:17:48 DEBUG    Detected storage as type 'block'
Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:17:48 DEBUG    Could not open "/etc/sysconfig/keyboard" [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/sysconfig/keyboard'
Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:17:48 DEBUG    Didn't find keymap in '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'!
Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:17:48 DEBUG    Didn't find keymap 'None' in keytable!
Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:17:48 DEBUG    DistroInstaller location is a network source.
Starting install...
Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:17:48 DEBUG    Attempting to detect distro:
Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:17:48 DEBUG    Fetching URI http://192.168.1.41/f12/.treeinfo
Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:17:48 DEBUG    Saved file to /var/lib/xen/virtinst-.treeinfo.JlLviW
Retrieving file .treeinfo 100% |=========================| 1.2 kB    00:00
Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:17:48 DEBUG    Fetching URI http://192.168.1.41/f12/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:17:48 DEBUG    Saved file to /var/lib/xen/virtinst-vmlinuz.jY2aMJ
Retrieving file vmlinuz.. 100% |=========================| 3.3 MB    00:00
Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:17:48 DEBUG    Fetching URI http://192.168.1.41/f12/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:17:48 DEBUG    Saved file to /var/lib/xen/virtinst-initrd.img.Tgbr58
Retrieving file initrd.im 100% |=========================| 22 MB    00:00
Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:17:48 DEBUG    Creating guest from:
<domain type='xen'>
<name>VM12F</name>
<currentMemory>1048576</currentMemory>
<memory>1048576</memory>
<uuid>c1066dcc-90f7-b05c-fe51-2277eea88160</uuid>
<os>
    <type>linux</type>
    <kernel>/var/lib/xen/virtinst-vmlinuz.jY2aMJ</kernel>
    <initrd>/var/lib/xen/virtinst-initrd.img.Tgbr58</initrd>
    method=http://192.168.1.41/f12
</os>
<on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
<on_reboot>destroy</on_reboot>
<on_crash>destroy</on_crash>
<vcpu>1</vcpu>
<devices>
    <disk type='block' device='disk'>
      <source dev='/dev/sda3'/>
      <target dev='xvda' bus='xen'/>
    </disk>
    <interface type='bridge'>
      <source bridge='eth2'/>
      <mac address='00:16:36:17:d6:ed'/>
    </interface>
    <input type='mouse' bus='xen'/>
    <graphics type='vnc' port='-1' keymap='en-us'/>
</devices>
</domain>

Creating domain...                                                 0 B 00:00
Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:17:49 DEBUG    Created guest, looking to see if it is running
/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/virtinst/Guest.py:1086: DeprecationWarning: integer argument expected, got float
for ignore in range(1, (5 / .25)): # 5 seconds, .25 second sleeps
Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:17:49 DEBUG    Saving XML boot config:
<domain type='xen'>
<name>VM12F</name>
<currentMemory>1048576</currentMemory>
<memory>1048576</memory>
<uuid>c1066dcc-90f7-b05c-fe51-2277eea88160</uuid>
<bootloader>/usr/lib/xen-default/bin/pygrub</bootloader>
<on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
<on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
<on_crash>restart</on_crash>
<vcpu>1</vcpu>
<devices>
    <disk type='block' device='disk'>
      <source dev='/dev/sda3'/>
      <target dev='xvda' bus='xen'/>
    </disk>
    <interface type='bridge'>
      <source bridge='eth2'/>
      <mac address='00:16:36:17:d6:ed'/>
    </interface>
    <input type='mouse' bus='xen'/>
    <graphics type='vnc' port='-1' keymap='en-us'/>
</devices>
</domain>

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:17:49 DEBUG    Removing /var/lib/xen/virtinst-vmlinuz.jY2aMJ
Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:17:49 DEBUG    Removing /var/lib/xen/virtinst-initrd.img.Tgbr58
Domain installation still in progress. You can reconnect to
the console to complete the installation process.

# vncviewer localhost:0
brings up VNC console for F12 installation.

Manging this way

1. I didn't have any problems with prevu build Debian's Xen 3.4.1 to get deb packages.
2. Version of Xen is up to date
3. MRJ's ext4 patch for pygrub may be easily applied.
4. Virt-install works in --noautoconsole mode, creating DomUs.

However , virsh doesn't seem to be completely functional in
regards of managing domains.

# xm start VM12F
# vncviewer localhost:0

starts domain

Actually, i get only working virt-install. Virsh is almost useless

Boris

Re: [Xen-users] virsh -c xen:/// list: = Connection refused, Set up Xen 3.4.2 & Libvirt 0.6.1 on top of Ubuntu 9.04 Server