Xen HOST not recognized as such

Submitted by Anonymous on March 16, 2007 - 12:28.Support

I've got a Xen host (amd64) running a few domU's.
bixagent is running on dom0 and the domU's.

On the domU's, the agent detects thier 'xen guest' status.

The agent on dom0 however, does not detect any 'xen host' status.
Obviously, without it detecting the VM host, the 'virtualization' does nothing.

I have adjusted the paths in the agents' xen_cfg.xml without any luck. Does it look for .sxp or .hvm files specifically?

Starting the agent up (as root) with the -debug switch doesn't tell me much, other than the following lines of interest:

VMManage :: Attempting to load /home/bixuser/bixdata/bixagent/data/../../out-modules/vmp-vmware
VMManage :: Failed to load /home/bixuser/bixdata/bixagent/data/../../out-modules/vmp-vmware
VMManage :: Attempting to load /home/bixuser/bixdata/bixagent/data/../../out-modules/vmp-xen
VMManage :: Failed to load /home/bixuser/bixdata/bixagent/data/../../out-modules/vmp-xen
VMManage :: Failed to GetProcAddress
DataPluginMgr :: Loading /home/bixuser/bixdata/out-modules/dp-virtualmachines
VMManage :: Attempting to load /home/bixuser/bixdata/bixagent/data/../../out-modules/vmp-vmware
VMManage :: Failed to load /home/bixuser/bixdata/bixagent/data/../../out-modules/vmp-vmware
VMManage :: Attempting to load /home/bixuser/bixdata/bixagent/data/../../out-modules/vmp-xen
VMManage :: Failed to load /home/bixuser/bixdata/bixagent/data/../../out-modules/vmp-xen
VMManage :: Failed to GetProcAddress
DataPluginMgr :: Error loading plugin (plugin returned an error during GetInterfaces())

The BixAgent doesn't load

Submitted by bixdata on March 16, 2007 - 21:17.

The BixAgent doesn't load the xen plugin. (vmp-xen)

Which xen version do you have installed and which distro are you using? That way we can figure out why it doesn't load.

Distro is a current Gentoo

Submitted by Anonymous on March 19, 2007 - 10:11.

Distro is a current Gentoo install, 64 bit build on a sun X2100.
Xen is version 3.0.3.

Like I said, it's only the host (dom0) that doesn't detect it's xen status, clients (domU's) have no problem.

thanks, let me know if you need any more info.

Thanks for the update This

Submitted by bixdata on March 19, 2007 - 17:02.

Thanks for the update

This seems to be a problem with Gentoo 64bit and the Xen api library.
Scheduled to be fixed in next release.

Hi I have a similiar if not

Submitted by radar on May 21, 2008 - 03:36.

I have a similiar if not the same problem. We are running on SuSE 9.3 to 10.3, 95% are 64bit systems.
Only the 32bit XEN systems are diagnosed as such. This happens on the hosts and the guests.
Compiling the XEN libraries by myself as a read as advice is not an option.

Any suggestions or updates on this issue?

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radar