Does anyone know if there is something in the works to get virt manager working with unraid beta 9?  I saw that there is a KVM version but no idea about xen..

Place a "#" to comment the line  "listen 127.0.0.1" out or change  it to your unraid address or 0.0.0.0 in /etc/libvirt/libvirtd.conf then run from the command line "/etc/rc.d/rc.libvirt restart". You should be able to connect to unraid from virt-manager. Not sure if it will work with xen as I don't use it anymore and use kvm. But try it out and let us know.

It seems to start and run.  I am able to build an instance but it does not see the default network bridge..  Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.  I am going to poke around with some of the default settings..  Will report back what I find. 

Well I was able to get the network sorted but it seems that the webvirtmgr was not complied with xen drivers installed..  Thanks for the help dmacias. 

Yeah webvirtmgr only sees the virtual network and is kvm only.  Try virt-manager it's more robust. You should be able to connect to unraid through tcp from a laptop or on another Linux vm. Some of the windows people have set up a Ubuntu vm and apt-get virt-manager then connect through vnc or rdp.

I have do have virt manager installed and running on a CentOS VM.  The problem I am troubleshooting now is that it seems the config file is located on the host running virt-manager.  Working on taking those config files apart to see if I can store the config file with the disk image. 

I do have a temp plg I made in the webvirtmgr plg thread that uses a very small loopback image mounted to/etc/libvirt on unraid. Then you can setup storage locations and everything you need. I run virt-manager on my laptop and I thought it stored new configs in /etc/libvirt/qemu on unraid.

Thanks for the nudge in the right direction.  So I am Running XEN using your plugin and virt-manager on Centos I can build a virtual machine and I found the xml file living in /etc/libvirt/libxml/  time to play around a bit and see what else I can break..

All this will become easier in beta 10.  Stay tuned...

Thanks for the update Jon.

No problem!