[Fedora-xen] xend fails to start in rawhide/F12 on x86_64

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 06:42:19PM +0100, M A Young wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Oct 2009, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> 
> >Hello,
> >
> >I was just playing with Fedora on x86_64 box, and I upgraded it from F11
> >to F12 rawhide.
> >
> >I installed xen rpms and myoung xendom0 kernel, added /etc/fstab
> >/proc/xen entry and rebooted into xen.
> >
> >Now it seems xend doesn't start for some reason. Has anyone noticed this?
> >
> >[root at f12test ~]# /etc/init.d/xend start
> >Starting xend daemon:                                      [FAILED]
> 
> Do you have selinux enabled? If so, run setenforce 0 amd try again. The 
> selinux permissions for the files in /proc/xen aren't correct or xen 
> friendly.
> 

Thanks. selinux was the culprit. Disabling selinux fixed the problem,
and xend starts now.

I usually always disable selinux as a first thing, but now I forgot.
Doh. :)

-- Pasi