Re: [Xen-users] Can't create a new VM with XEN 4.3

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 20:18 +0100, jpliste wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> After some Debian updates and switching to "xl" it is better, I can
> create new VMs. But I can't find with xl the command like "xm new".
> So I have to create the VM and the command "xl --list" show only the
> running machines, "xm --list" would show all the VMs. 
> This is why I was sticking to "xm".

This is known as "Managed domains", which is deliberately not a feature
of XL. http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/XL#Anti-Features has some links to other
actively maintained toolstack which do include that feature, libvirt and
xapi spring to mind. For some subset of users the "xendomains" script
will do the job as well.

Ian.

> 
> Regards,
> 
> JP Pozzi
> 
> 
> > On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 08:39:26PM +0100, jpliste wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I get XEN 4.2 end 4.3 on my Debian (unstable) system. All VMs are
> > > working with the two versions.
> > > I get only a problen : I can't create a new VM while running 4.3 and get
> > > a message :
> > > xm new com-web
> > > Using config file "./com-web".
> > > Error: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'rfind'
> > > 
> > 
> > Mixing two versions of toolstacks is likely to cause weird problems. If
> > VMs are running fine, what are you worrying about?
> > 
> > I would encourage you to use XL toolstack in 4.3.
> > 
> > > With xen 4.2 and the same configuration file all is OK and the machine
> > > is created :
> > > xm new com-web
> > > Using config file "./com-web".
> > > 
> > > Name                                 ID   Mem  VCPUs   State   Time(s)
> > > Domain-0                              0  6144    2     r-----     48.3
> > > com-web                                   640    1                 0.0
> > > ......
> > > 
> > > I know that mixing two versions of XEN on the same system is not very
> > > good but I fear to uninstall 4.2 if 4.3 does not work.
> > > 
> > 
> > It could be the mixture of things that makes 4.3 does not work.
> > 
> > Wei.
> 
> 
> 
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