[libvirt] Libvirt Xen daemon interaction in Red Hat Enterprise with virtualization

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Wed Aug 20 17:18:57 UTC 2008


On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:15:49AM -0700, vaibhav chugh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am new to libvirt and I am trying to figure out that how libvert connects
> to Xend in Red Hat Enterprise with virtualization. I read a few posts but
> was not able to find this out.
> 
> The eariler versions of Xen were using xen_session_login_with_password()
> function call to connect to Xen daemon but I am not able to find anything
> similar to this in libvirt.

Libvirt talks to XenD using its UNIX socket, and SEXPR interface. This
page gives a quick list of config settings you need in XenD to make it
work with libvirt:

  http://libvirt.org/drvxen.html

Daniel
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