[Openstack] Xen and openstack

Michaël Van de Borne michael.vandeborne at cetic.be
Tue Nov 22 17:03:45 UTC 2011


Hi all,

On this page 
<http://docs.openstack.org/diablo/openstack-compute/admin/content/selecting-a-hypervisor.html>, 
one can see that XenServer 5.6 and XCP are supported. Is there any 
chance to run xen VMs using just the 'xen hypervisor' package from linux 
distributions?

This means: bare metal -> Fedora 16 -> nova-compute -> VM

is the page: http://wiki.openstack.org/XenServerDevelopment still valid 
for this configuration?


If yes, I get an error when testing the connection:

sudo nova-manage shell python

 >>> import XenAPI
 >>> import nova.virt.xenapi_conn
 >>> nova.virt.xenapi_conn.XenAPI = XenAPI
 >>> x = nova.virt.xenapi_conn.XenAPIConnection("http://localhost", "", "")
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/virt/xenapi_conn.py", 
line 162, in __init__
     self._session = XenAPISession(url, user, pw)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nova/virt/xenapi_conn.py", 
line 362, in __init__
     self._session.login_with_password(user, pw)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/XenAPI.py", line 182, in <lambda>
     return lambda *params: self._login(name, params)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/XenAPI.py", line 148, in _login
     result = _parse_result(getattr(self, 'session.%s' % method)(*params))
   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 1224, in __call__
     return self.__send(self.__name, args)
   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 1575, in __request
     verbose=self.__verbose
   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 1264, in request
     return self.single_request(host, handler, request_body, verbose)
   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 1292, in single_request
     self.send_content(h, request_body)
   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xmlrpclib.py", line 1439, in send_content
     connection.endheaders(request_body)
   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py", line 951, in endheaders
     self._send_output(message_body)
   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py", line 811, in _send_output
     self.send(msg)
   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py", line 773, in send
     self.connect()
   File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py", line 754, in connect
     self.timeout, self.source_address)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/eventlet/green/socket.py", 
line 59, in create_connection
     raise error, msg
error: [Errno 111] ECONNREFUSED


thank you

michaël

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Michaël Van de Borne
R&D Engineer, SOA team, CETIC
Phone: +32 (0)71 49 07 45 Mobile: +32 (0)472 69 57 16, Skype: mikemowgli
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