There seem to be several incompatible issues introduced by the Debian
packaging style:
1. Debian packages libxenlight.so into "xen-utils-4.2" along with the binary
executables (/usr/lib/xen-4.2/bin/xl, etc.) - other distros package it in the
libxen[-4.2] package
2. libvirt's configure script expects to find libxenlight.so in the standard
library locations /usr/lib, /usr/lib/x86*-linux-gnu/
3. Debian installs libxenlight.so to /usr/lib/xen-4.2/lib/
4. Debian/Ubuntu libvirt does not depend on "xen-utils" (the virtual package
provided by xen-utils-4.2).
5. Debian/Ubuntu libvirt configure script checks for but does not find
libxenlight.so and therefore doesn't include support
I tried adding "xen-utils" as a build-depends to libvirt but that
doesn't solve the issue due to [3].
I also tried adding libxenlight.so, libxenlight.a and libxl.h to the
libxen-dev package but that fails to build due to other complex library
dependencies which I decided not to pursue.
** Changed in: xen (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
** Changed in: xen (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
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“Unable to connect to libvirt” when using virt-manager with the xl
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