To run KVM virtual machines it seems to be recommended to un virsh which requires XML. Just having XML isn't necessarily a bad thing (XML is great for machine=>machine communication) but apparently you have to edit it yourself! I've editited XML by hand before and written scripts to do it back when I was working on clustering software which also had the flaw of requiring XML but provided no automated way of creating it. Getting KVM working from the command line is easy enough (for definitions of easy that include a 500 character command). But how do you start it on boot and keep it running? I'm currently using screen to manage KVM sessions and it's not that difficult to script screen to start on boot, but it's a little ugly. Any better ideas? PS A recent update to Xen on Debian resulted in SATA disks not working correctly on one of my systems. If we weren't going to move LUV hosting to another location then I'd convert the LUV server to KVM to avoid the risk of SAS disks having a similar issue. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/