Official Xen Guide and the offical wiki page: - https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xen - https://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Main_Page If you use OpenRC: It is recommended to utilise the xencommons script to configure the system at boot time. If you use QEMU: The qemu-bridge-helper is renamed to the xen-bridge-helper in the in source build of qemu. This allows for app-emulation/qemu to be emerged concurrently with the qemu capable xen. It is up to the user to distinguish between and utilise the qemu-bridge-helper and the xen-bridge-helper. File bugs of any issues that arise.