diff -uNr xe-guest-utilities-5.5.0/gentoo/xe-daemon.init xe-guest-utilities-5.5.0-gentoo/gentoo/xe-daemon.init
--- xe-guest-utilities-5.5.0/gentoo/xe-daemon.init	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ xe-guest-utilities-5.5.0-gentoo/gentoo/xe-daemon.init	2010-01-27 17:37:36.000000000 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+#!/sbin/runscript
+# Copyright 1999-2010 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+depend() {
+	need localmount
+}
+
+XE_PROC=/proc/xen
+XE_LINUX_DISTRIBUTION=/usr/sbin/xe-linux-distribution
+XE_LINUX_DISTRIBUTION_CACHE=/var/cache/xe-linux-distribution
+XE_DAEMON=/usr/sbin/xe-daemon
+XE_DAEMON_PIDFILE=/var/run/xe-daemon.pid
+
+checkxen() {
+	if [ ! -d "$XE_PROC" ]; then
+		eerror "Directory not found: $XE_PROC"
+		eerror "You need a post 2.6.29-rc1 kernel with CONFIG_XEN_COMPAT_XENFS=y and CONFIG_XENFS=y|m"
+		return 1
+	fi
+}
+
+checklinuxdistribution() {
+	if [ ! -x "${XE_LINUX_DISTRIBUTION}" ] ; then
+		eerror "Program not found ${XE_LINUX_DISTRIBUTION}"
+		eerror "You don't appear to have XenTools installed yet."
+		return 1
+	fi
+
+	"${XE_LINUX_DISTRIBUTION}" "${XE_LINUX_DISTRIBUTION_CACHE}" \
+		|| eerror "Linux distribution version not detected."
+}
+
+mountxen() {
+	if [ ! -e "$XE_PROC"/xenbus ] ; then
+		# This is needed post 2.6.29-rc1, /proc/xen support was pushed upstream as a xen filesystem
+		einfo "Mounting xenfs on $XE_PROC"
+		mount -t xenfs none "$XE_PROC" || return 1
+	fi
+}
+
+start() {
+	checkxen || return 1
+
+	checklinuxdistribution || return 1
+
+	mountxen || return 1
+
+	ebegin "Starting xe daemon"
+	start-stop-daemon --start --exec "${XE_DAEMON}" --background \
+		--pidfile "${XE_DAEMON_PIDFILE}" --quiet \
+		-- -p "${XE_DAEMON_PIDFILE}"
+	eend $?
+}
+
+stop() {
+	ebegin "Stopping xe daemon"
+	start-stop-daemon --stop --exec "${XE_DAEMON}" \
+		--pidfile "${XE_DAEMON_PIDFILE}" --quiet
+	eend $?
+}
diff -uNr xe-guest-utilities-5.5.0/xe-linux-distribution xe-guest-utilities-5.5.0-gentoo/xe-linux-distribution
--- xe-guest-utilities-5.5.0/xe-linux-distribution	2009-08-27 12:01:45.000000000 +0200
+++ xe-guest-utilities-5.5.0-gentoo/xe-linux-distribution	2010-01-27 17:39:07.000000000 +0100
@@ -211,6 +211,24 @@
 
 }
 
+identify_gentoo()
+{
+    gentoo_release="$1"
+    if [ ! -e "${gentoo_release}" ] ; then
+	return 1
+    fi
+    distro="gentoo"
+    eval $(cat ${gentoo_release} | awk '{ print "release=" $5 }' )
+    if [ -z "${release}" ] ; then
+	return 1
+    fi
+    eval $(echo $release | awk -F. -- '{ print "major=" $1 ; print "minor=" $2 }' )
+    if [ -z "${major}" -o -z "$minor" ] ; then
+	return 1
+    fi
+    write_to_output "${distro}" "${major}" "${minor}" "${distro}"
+}
+
 identify_lsb()
 {
     lsb_release="$1"
@@ -257,6 +275,7 @@
     identify_sles   /etc/SuSE-release   && exit 0
     identify_lsb    lsb_release         && exit 0
     identify_debian /etc/debian_version && exit 0
+    identify_gentoo /etc/gentoo-release && exit 0
 
     if [ $# -eq 1 ] ; then
 	rm -f "$1"