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From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: xl with xenstore stubdom
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:09:53 +0100
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On 22/04/13 13:05, steve_1991@hushmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running xenstore stubdom on my system. When I try to use xl, it gives me error that xenstore daemon is not running and couldn't stat /var/run/xenstored.pid. I want to ask does xl work with xenstore stubdom and if not then which toolstack to use for VM management?
>
> S

xl unconditionally looks for /var/run/xenstored.pid, even when it
doesn't need it.

Simply touching the file is enough to fool xl into working correctly for
actions not requiring xenstored, but I have no idea how well xl would
cope with xenstored in a different domain.

~Andrew