Command just times our for me virt-install --paravirt --vcpus=4 --name server1 --ram 4096 --file /opt/xen-images/hlcnwmmp01.img -x "ks=http://10.203.1.11/kickstart/ks-xen.cfg" --file-size 40 --location http://128.61.111.11/pub/centos/5.4/os/x86_64 -b peth0 Starting install... Retrieving file vmlinuz... | 1.9 MB 00:00 Retrieving file initrd.img... | 7.1 MB 00:01 POST operation failed: xend_post: error from xen daemon: (xend.err 'Device 0 (vi f) could not be connected. Hotplug scripts not working.') Domain installation may not have been successful. If it was, you can restart your domain by running 'virsh start server1'; otherwise, please restart your installation. virt-mamanger doesn't display any options for physical interface xen-3.0.3-94.el5 libvirt-0.6.3-20.1.el5_4 virt-manager-0.6.1-8.el5 xen-libs-3.0.3-94.el5 kernel 2.6.18-164.15.1.el5xen peth0 is there: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:9B:9B:A7:56 inet addr:10.202.3.66 Bcast:10.202.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0 inet6 addr: fe80::221:9bff:fe9b:a756/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:3452114 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1924908 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:4900895721 (4.5 GiB) TX bytes:227380539 (216.8 MiB) peth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF inet6 addr: fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:4415207 errors:0 dropped:6356 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2505255 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:6274073430 (5.8 GiB) TX bytes:277402952 (264.5 MiB) Interrupt:24 Memory:d6000000-d6012800