Installation guide

Note
The logfile is overwritten every time you start virt - manag er. If you are troubleshooting a
problem with virt - man ag er make sure you save the logfile before you restart virt - man ager
after an error has occurred.
Red Hat En t erp rise Lin u x 5 Virt ualiz at io n relat ed d irect o ries
There are a few other directories and files which may be of interest when troubleshooting a Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5 Virtualization environment:
/var/lib/libvirt/images/
the standard directory for file-based guest images.
/var/lib/xen/xend-db/
directory that hold the xend database which is generated every time the daemon is
restarted.
/etc/xen/
Stores a number of configuration files for the Xen hypervisor.
/etc/xen/xend-config.sxp is the main configuration for the xend daemon. The
xend-config.sxp file enables or disables migration and other features not configured
by libvirt. Use the libvirt tools for all other features.
/var/lib/xen/dump/
Holds dumps generate by virtual machines or when using the xm dump-core command.
/proc/xen/
Stores xen-kernel information in the following files:
/proc/xen/capabilities
/proc/xen/privcmd
/proc/xen/balloon
/proc/xen/xenbus
/proc/xen/xsd_port
/proc/xen/xsd_kva
37.2. Para-virt ualized guest fail t o load on a Red Hat Ent erprise Linux 3
guest operat ing syst em
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 is uses processor architecture specific kernel RPMs and because of this
the para-virtualized drivers may fail to load if the para-virtualized driver RPM does not match the
installed kernel architecture.
When the para-virtualized driver modules are inserted, a long list of unresolved modules will be
⁠Chapt er 37 . T roubleshoot ing t he Xen para- virt ualized drivers
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