[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#783901: Bug#783901: Bug#783901: libvirt-daemon: libvirtd does not recognize Xen guests

[Guido Günther]

On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 12:51:37PM -0700, Gerald Turner wrote:
[..snip..]
>   * 1.2.12: Jan 27 2015
>       libxl: Add support for parsing/formating Xen XL config (Kiarie Kahurani)
>       Introduce support for parsing/formatting Xen xl config format (Jim Fehlig)

We could cherry pick those to our stable release.

> After correcting the domain XML, and restarting libvirtd once more,
> things start progressing:
> 
>   # virsh -c xen:/// list --all
>    Id    Name                           State
>   ----------------------------------------------------
>    -     host1                          shut off
> 
> … however “shut off” is incorrect.

Stupid question but did you start the domain via virsh beforehand? If
so, is there anything interesting in the daemon log? AFAIK
configurations are now managed entierly via /etc/libvirt/libxl/ .

Cheers,
 -- Guido