After installing this package, in addition to the /usr/doc/xen-*/README file; the Xen User Manual is installed as /usr/doc/xen-*/html. Before Xen can be used, xenstored, xenconsoled and xenbackendd services must be started with the rc.xencommons script. 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