using virsh and virt-manager for XEN on FreeBSD

[Roger Pau Monné]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 07:43:54AM +0000, Eric Bautsch wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> 
> And one more:
> 
> root at bianca # virsh -V
> Virsh command line tool of libvirt 4.10.0
> See web site at https://libvirt.org/
> 
> Compiled with support for:
>  Hypervisors: VMware PHYP VirtualBox ESX Bhyve Test
>  Networking: Remote Network Bridging
>  Storage: Dir ZFS
>  Miscellaneous: Daemon Secrets Debug Readline
> root at bianca # virsh -c xen:///system
> error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
> error: no connection driver available for xen:///system
> 
> 
> Based on this output, I'm assuming that virsh (and virt-manager, too) wasn't
> compiled with XEN support on FreeBSD.
> 
> 
> However, this page (from 2015):
> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/libvirt-libxl-on-freebsd.51862/
> 
> 
> Would seem to suggest that it should work.
> 
> 
> Should I just stop trying and compile my own virsh and virt-manager?

I haven't looked into building virt-manager with Xen support myself,
there's definitely Xen support in virt-manager that uses libxl IIRC,
but that's not enabled by the virt-manager port.

Would you be willing to look into enabling Xen support for the
virt-manager port?

Thanks, Roger.