ahh. thanks. i tried downgrading, but did not install CentOS-release-xen44 so the downgrade failed. this makes sense now that i see that i would need to jump tracks. thanks for suggesting it. at the time i set all this up i don’t think i understood what i was doing very well. i certainly am using libvirt (i use virsh and virt-manager), so i am not sure what fork in the road i took to wind up making sxp-style config files. :}

got it. i think i read thru that page too quickly before.

since the images are there, and all i need to do is to effectively reconfigure the domUs, i think i will do that manually. that will accomplish two things:
a) force me to document how i set them up better, and b) drive me to understand some aspects of this better… :}

fortunately i had hosed up my dev host and dev VMs, and was smart enough to catch this mistake before i broke the production ones :}

thanks again for all the help.

r.