Unable to find libxlutil.so.1.0 on linux

Question

I am modifying the linux kernel to run the xen-4.2.1. and my linux is v3.4.5. After the installation of linux and xen, I executed the following command:

xen list

which gives me the following error:

xl: error while loading shared libraries: libxlutil.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

How do I fix this?

Answer 1

@Charles0429 locate the library . usually the library will reside in /usr/lib64. Make a symbolic link to the following folder /usr/lib....:)

Answer 2

I had a similar problem when installing xen 4.3 on Fedora 18. When configuring I figured out that: ./configure --libdir=/usr/lib did the trick for me.

Answer 3

The file libxlutil.so.1.0 wasn't found in the default search path. This error usually pops up if you forgot to install a dependency package.

In Debian/Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt-get install xen-utils-4.2

In Redhat:

$ sudo yum install xen-libs-4.2.1

In some circumstances, the file won't be found since it is located in a different path, or has a different name. For these cases, you can typically execute a find to locate the file, and then create a symbolic link with ln to satisfy the program.

For example, suppose there is a name mismatch and the actual file is simply libxlutil.so with no trailing numbers. All we need is to create a symbolic link in the same directory:

$ sudo ln -s libxlutil.so.1.0 libxlutil.so

So when the program tries to load libxlutil.so.1.0, it'll be redirected to the correct libxlutil.so.