After installing this package, in addition to the /usr/doc/xen-*/README file; the Xen User Manual is installed as /usr/doc/xen-*/pdf/user.pdf. Before Xen can be used, xenstored, xenconsoled and xenbackendd services must be started, wich must be done with rc.xencommons script. The rc.xend script is no longer needed if you are going to use 'xl' instead of 'xm'. As a matter of fact, 'xm' is marked as supported but deprecated in Xen 4.1. Future versions of Xen will no longer support 'xm'. You may wish to add these lines to /etc/rc.d/rc.local to start this service after booting from your Xen kernel: if [ -d /proc/xen ]; then if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.xencommons ]; then echo "Starting XEN commons: /etc/rc.d/rc.xencommons" /etc/rc.d/rc.xencommons start fi if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.xendomains ]; then echo "Starting XEN domains: /etc/rc.d/rc.xendomains" /etc/rc.d/rc.xendomains start fi fi You may also add these lines to /etc/rc.d/rc.local_shutdown: if [ -d /proc/xen ]; then if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.xendomains ]; then echo "Stopping XEN domains: /etc/rc.d/rc.xendomains" /etc/rc.d/rc.xendomains stop fi if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.xencommons ]; then echo "Stopping XEN commons: /etc/rc.d/rc.xencommons" /etc/rc.d/rc.xencommons stop fi fi Remember to give executable permission to /etc/rc.d/rc.local_shutdown: chmod 0755 /etc/rc.d/rc.local_shutdown