Re: [Xen-users] newbie: "Is xend running?"

[Thomas Jensen <tom.jensen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 17:52:53 -0200, Paula R T Coelho
<paulartcoelho@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hello all,
> 
> it's my first time ever with xen (or even virtualization in general).
> 
> I installed Xen 3.2 on top of a Debian Lenny kernel 2.6.26-2-686 via
> apt-get. Boot options are:
> 
> title         Xen 3.2-1-i386 / Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-xen-686
> root          (hd0,0)
> kernel                /xen-3.2-1-i386.gz dom0_mem=512000
> module                /vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-xen-686 root=/dev/mapper/athena-root 
> ro
> console=tty0
> module                /initrd.img-2.6.26-2-xen-686
> 
> but aparently xend it not up:
> 
> # xm list
> Error: Unable to connect to xend: No such file or directory. Is xend running?
> 
> even though:
> 
> # ps -ef | grep xen
> root        31     2  0 17:41 ?        00:00:00 [xenwatch]
> root        32     2  0 17:41 ?        00:00:00 [xenbus]
> root      3320     1  0 17:41 ?        00:00:00 xenstored --pid-file
> /var/run/xenstore.pid
> root      3327     1  0 17:41 ?        00:00:00 xenconsoled
> root      3781  3727  0 17:48 pts/0    00:00:00 grep xen
> 
> I searched google and I've found many posts with the same error, but
> got quite confused I confess, because none of the posts (that I could
> find) had the same combination of kernel + xen version, and as such I
> didn't feel comfortable to try the proposed solutions, as i hardly
> understood them...
> 
> would you mind guiding me a bit here?

I have a similar setup (Debian Lenny) but did not encounter the issues
you described.  I used the following tutorial to get my installation
installed and operational.

http://www.howtoforge.com/virtualization-with-xen-on-debian-lenny-amd64

> 
> many thx in advance
> p.
> 
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