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Cannot connect to EC2 instance after converting Ubuntu 16 PV to Ubuntu 16 HVM

So it's been a few days and I still can not connect to my new HVM instance with EC2 running Ubuntu 16. For reference, I am trying to upgrade our server from an m3 instance running Ubuntu 16, to a C5 instance running Ubuntu 16. For almost every…
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Amazon EC2: How to convert an existing PV AMI to HVM - CentOS - Wont boot

I've now tried every guide I've found on Google, some are posts on this forum. The instances always end up not booting with every guide/method I've tried. Probably spent about 4 days trying out different guides. I follow them to the greatest detail,…
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Debian Jessie not picking up xen virtual framebuffer

I have a Xen 4.1 installation on Debian Wheezy, administered through xm. When I boot a Jessie DomU I get output on the emulated VGA card / VNC display only for the first few seconds of boot, then it stops. dmesg shows: [ 30.968257]…
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virt-install Couldn't find hvm kernel for Ubuntu tree

I'm trying to create a VM using KVM and virt-installer. When i use virt-install I get the following error: Starting install... Retrieving file .treeinfo... …
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Getting errors when try to start Debian XEN HVM VM with more than 4 vif's

I've been trying to set up a PfSense firewall on my Debian XEN server for some time now, this works fine until I try to add a fifth (with four it works) interface to the "hvm" VM, then the VM won't start and it comes to the errors described below.…
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How to fix SolusVM Xen-Hvm template error at creation?

The following log contains an error which happens while executing the template creation script on a SolusVM powered CentOS 6 server. CREATING MBR IMAGE... 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 512 bytes (512 B) copied, 0.00333337 s, 154 kB/s MAPPING…
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Upgraded HVM AMI won't launch on m4 instance types

I am using the Bitnami Tomcat on Ubuntu AWS AMI for my application servers. I want to upgrade my old PV image to be hardware virtualized (HVM) so I can take advantage of the m4 instance types on AWS. I followed these instructions for upgrading an…
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Convert AWS EC2 AMI from PV to HVM

I'm trying to convert EC2 AMI from PV to HVM (To use some new instance_types). I did some actions as @tolgamorf said here. Instance started and work. But sometime, there 're some logs in /var/log/messages as: Dec 22 16:47:56 modprobe: FATAL: Could…
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Cloud-config resize filesystem fails

So, my adventure started like this: I had an OpenSUSE 13.1 VM, and I wanted to upgrade to 13.2, so one of the main differences between the 2 community amis (13.1 - `` and 13.2 -ami-3a6cc64d) was that the 13.2 image uses HVM - instead of PV -…
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Unable to boot a customized HVM AMI on EC2

I am trying to customize an existing Debian Jessie HVM AMI(ami-116d857a) and store it as my private AMI. Though the AMI creation process succeeds, I am unable to boot from it. The instance shows started but I am not able to connect via ssh and…
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GPU Passthrough on Xen Hypervisor

I have a Dell PowerEdge r710 running the Xen hypervisor and I want to get a decent graphics card for a virtual machine. I plan on doing GPU passthrough to dedicate the entire GPU to the virtual machine for increased performance and I am wondering…
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AWS EC2 - Instance works as T2, but not M4 or C4

I'm having a very strange problem with server instance, which I'm trying to upgrade from PV to HVM. I've got through the migration process, and created an AMI. If I launch an instance from this AMI as a T2 type, of any size, it works fine. However,…
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How to recover data of a Bluescreen XEN HVM Windows server (SolusVM)?

The server won't boot into any of the following modes and the VPS crashes in the loading screen with a Bluescreen error. SafeMode SafeMode with Networking Last Known Good Configuration Normally How do I troubleshoot and recover the files from the…
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Citrix XenCenter templates for RHEL 6.x OS

I have Citrix XenServer 7.1 installed on my server. In Citrix XenCenter, I have connected my server and created few VMs. On choosing respective VM templates, OS with 6.x architecture (i.e. RHEL 6.x, CentOS 6.x, Oracle Linux 6.x) is getting installed…
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How can I force xenserver to create a full (not paravirtualized) vm?

Exact opposite of this question: How to makesure VM is in Para virtualization mode on XEN? I've got xenserver 6.2 and nowhere in the UI when creating a VM does it give me the option to use HVM and not paravirtualize by default. Any ideas?
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