[virt-tools-list] domain-0 not showing up on virt-manager console

[Cole Robinson]

On 02/06/2015 03:55 PM, Wayne Mills wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been following this website to create VM's:
> http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/DomU_Install_with_Virt-Manager .  As shown, when
> virt-manager is started, it shows domain-0 as one of the VM's.
> 
> My virt-manager console does not show domain-0.  It only shows the VM I
> created (ubuntu1404svr) based on amd64 ubuntu server ISO.  Yet, I do see the
> qemu processes running for both the server and domain0 images:
> 
> root     28243     1  0 04:20 ?        00:00:53 /usr/bin/qemu-system-i386
> -xen-domid 14 -chardev
> socket,id=libxl-cmd,path=/var/run/xen/qmp-libxl-14,server,nowait -mon
> chardev=libxl-cmd,mode=control -nodefaults *-name ubuntu1404svr* -vnc
> 127.0.0.1:0 <http://127.0.0.1:0> -k en-us -serial pty -device cirrus-vga
> -global vga.vram_size_mb=9 -boot order=dc -device
> rtl8139,id=nic0,netdev=net0,mac=00:16:3e:c3:44:fe -netdev
> type=tap,id=net0,ifname=vif14.0-emu,script=no,downscript=no -machine xenfv -m
> 4087 -drive
> *file=/dev/vg0/ubuntu1401svr*,if=ide,index=0,media=disk,format=raw,cache=writeback
> -drive if=ide,index=2,media=cdrom,cache=writeback,id=ide-5632
> 
> root      1226     1  0 Feb05 ?        00:00:06 /usr/bin/qemu-system-i386
> -xen-domid 0 -xen-attach *-name dom0* -nographic -M xenpv -daemonize -monitor
> /dev/null -serial /dev/null -parallel /dev/null -pidfile /var/run/qemu-dom0.pid
> 
> 
> Before I go much further in my activities, I want to be sure domain-0 is up
> and running properly.  The lack of domain-0 visibility from virt-manager has
> me concerned.
> 

Domain-0 doesn't show up in the VM list with modern xen + libvirt, so it's
expected that you don't see it in virt-manager. Those screenshots from the xen
wiki are very out of date (fedora 13 timeframe)

- Cole