The xend does not seem to be starting up the processes I'm expecting (xenstored, etc) on bootup, nor does /sbin/service xend [action] seem to be doing much of anything. Hopefully this isn't just pebkac. [bretm@dhcp59-206 ~]$ ssh root.redhat.com root.redhat.com's password: Last login: Fri Mar 10 15:36:54 2006 from devserv.devel.redhat.com [root@dhcp59-213 ~]# /sbin/chkconfig --list | grep xen xend 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off xendomains 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off [root@dhcp59-213 ~]# /sbin/service xend status [root@dhcp59-213 ~]# ps aux | grep xen root 12 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 15:45 0:00 [xenwatch] root 13 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 15:45 0:00 [xenbus] root 2739 0.0 0.0 3928 700 pts/2 S+ 15:48 0:00 grep xen [root@dhcp59-213 ~]# uname -a Linux dhcp59-213.rdu.redhat.com 2.6.15-1.2038_FC5xen0 #1 SMP Thu Mar 9 18:09:13 EST 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [root@dhcp59-213 ~]# /sbin/service xend start .........[root@dhcp59-213 ~]# /sbin/service xend status [root@dhcp59-213 ~]# ps aux | grep xen root 12 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 15:45 0:00 [xenwatch] root 13 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 15:45 0:00 [xenbus] root 2782 0.0 0.0 3932 704 pts/2 S+ 15:51 0:00 grep xen Manually calling '/usr/sbin/xend start' has 2 effects: 1) results in a changed ip: [root@dhcp59-213 ~]# /sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep 'inet addr' inet addr:172.16.59.129 Bcast:172.16.59.255 Mask:255.255.252.0 No idea if that's expected :) 2) starts up the expected xen related processes: [root@dhcp59-213 ~]# ps aux | grep xen root 12 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 15:45 0:00 [xenwatch] root 13 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 15:45 0:00 [xenbus] root 3238 0.0 0.0 2024 672 ? S 15:55 0:00 xenstored --pid-file=/var/run/xenstore.pid root 3241 0.0 0.0 12184 384 ? Sl 15:55 0:00 xenconsoled root 3246 0.0 0.1 10952 3668 ? S 15:55 0:00 python /usr/sbin/xend start root 3247 0.0 0.2 72416 4648 ? Sl 15:55 0:00 python /usr/sbin/xend start root 3320 0.0 0.0 3932 740 pts/3 S+ 15:58 0:00 grep xen If there's anything else I can provide, let me know.
echo 0 > /selinux/enforce fixed this problem
Are you seein AVC messages in /var/log/messages of /var/log/audit/audit.log?
Well I assume you are seeing AVC messages when you call the "service xend start", can you post those?
Policy has a changed a lot, and Xen too since March. Can you retest. Note that one thing that is known about is the _first time_ Xen is run, it won't boot in enforcing mode atm.
*** Bug 202851 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Should be fixed in the current release