i've been successfully running a headless install of OpenSuse 11.0 + Xen 321 as a Xen Dom0 w/ multiple DomUs for quite awhile ... i just built up a new OpenSuse 11.1 + Xen 331 box. short story -- not working, and not clear as to why not, yet. i've partitioned, as always, as RAID-1 across two disks, sda + sdb, each part1 150 MB, LinuxRaid part2 10 GB, LinuxRaid part3 *, LinuxRaid RAID-1 /dev/md0 = sda1 + sdb1, mount_pt = '/boot', ext3 /dev/md1 = sda2 + sdb2 Volume Group "System" Logical Volume "Swap", mount_pt = 'swap', 512 MB, Logical Volume "Root", mount_pt = '/', * /dev/md2 = sda3 + sdb3 with this setup, boot to non-xen kernel works perfectly, as it did on OpenSuse 11.0, uname -a Linux server 2.6.27.7-9-default #1 SMP 2008-12-04 18:10:04 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux lsb_release -r Release: 11.1 i've installed zypper in -t pattern xen-server rpm -qa | grep -i xen kernel-xen-base-2.6.27.7-9.1 xen-libs-3.3.1_18494_03-1.8 xen-tools-3.3.1_18494_03-1.8 kernel-xen-2.6.27.7-9.1 kernel-xen-extra-2.6.27.7-9.1 xen-3.3.1_18494_03-1.8 on attempt to boot to xen kernel, it fails ... @ boot console I see mention of '/var' not available scroll quickly by, and something about fsck.ext3 failing ... then i'm dumped @ a console prompt. i *can* login, but ... /var exists and is populated, but nothing is written to /var/log/xen/xend.log or /var/log/messages. /boot exists, but is completely empty (?). rebooting, I can get back to non-xen kernel and all is ok again. checking, service xend start returns simply xend unused not sure if this is informative, xend ERROR Internal error: Could not obtain handle on privileged command interface (2 = No such file or directory) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/xend", line 44, in <module> from xen.xend.server import SrvDaemon File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/xen/xend/server/SrvDaemon.py", line 26, in <module> import relocate File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/xen/xend/server/relocate.py", line 28, in <module> from xen.xend import XendDomain File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/xen/xend/XendDomain.py", line 35, in <module> from xen.xend import XendOptions, XendCheckpoint, XendDomainInfo File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/xen/xend/XendCheckpoint.py", line 20, in <module> from xen.xend import balloon, sxp, image File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/xen/xend/image.py", line 44, in <module> xc = xen.lowlevel.xc.xc() xen.lowlevel.xc.Error: (1, 'Internal error', 'Could not obtain handle on privileged command interface (2 = No such file or directory)') something's changed between 11.0 & 11.1. entirely possible i've missed some new config req'ts. what do I need to do to get xen behaving under 11.1? i'm happy to provide any info -- just need some guidance as to where to look ... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-virtual+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-virtual+help@opensuse.org