[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#688101: Bug#688101: virt-manager: cannot manage xen domains

[Michal Suchanek]

Excerpts from Guido Günther's message of Wed Sep 19 16:57:37 +0200 2012:
> reassign 688101 libvirt
> 
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 01:34:51PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> [..snip..] 
> > 2012-09-19 13:21:08,312 (connection:1070): Background open thread complete, scheduling notify
> > 2012-09-19 13:21:08,365 (connection:1075): Notifying open result
> > 2012-09-19 13:21:08,365 (error:80): dialog message: Unable to connect to libvirt.
> > 
> > Unable to issue hypervisor ioctl 3166208: Function not implemented
> 
> This is a problem between xen and libvirt. You should be able to
> reproduce this with virsh to debug this easier. I can't seem to find you
> xen version but would recommend to use the libvirt version from
> experimental. I don't have any xen systems do debug this around here.

This is what I am using:

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                          Version             Architecture        Description
+++-=============================-===================-===================-===============================================================
ii  libvirt0                      0.10.1-2            amd64               library for interfacing with different virtualization systems
ii  xen-hypervisor-4.2-amd64      4.2.0-1             amd64               Xen Hypervisor on AMD64
ii  xen-utils-4.2                 4.2.0-1             amd64               XEN administrative tools
ii  linux-image-3.5-trunk-amd64   3.5.2-1~experimental.1                  Linux 3.5 for 64-bit PCs

How is running virsh supposed to improve that debug output?

It is supposed to work with some xml files of which no sample is provided with
the package so I can run eg. virsh help but not create a domain.

Thanks

Michal