19.3. Important Directory Locations

There are additional utilities and logfiles you should remember when you track errors and troubleshoot problems within Red Hat Virtualization environments:

  • Virtual machines images reside in the /var/lib/xen/images directory.

  • When you restart the xend daemon, it updates the xend-database that resides in the /var/lib/xen/xend-db directory.

  • Virtual machine dumps (that you perform with xm dump-core command) resides in the /var/lib/xen/dumps directory.

  • The /etc/xen directory contains the configuration files that you use to manage system resources. The xend daemon configuration file is called xend-config.sxp, and you can use this file to implement system-wide changes and configure the networking callouts.

  • The proc commands are another resource that allows you to gather system information. These proc entries reside in the /proc/xen directory:

/proc/xen/capabilities

/proc/xen/balloon

/proc/xen/xenbus/