XenServer is the virtualization platform Citrix has built around the Xen Hypervisor.
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Upgrading XenServer 6.5 to 7.1
I'm currently running XenServer 6.5 on seven Dell PowerEdge Blade Servers. I'm looking to upgrade to XenServer 7.1. From what I've read online the upgrade is pretty simple - download the iso, reboot the server, boot from the iso and select the…
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Booting from RAID5 device
I have an xenserver and I wonder to know if it's possible to boot it from a RAID5 software partition.
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Moving VM's in XenServer
When moving a VM from XenServer to an independent box, is it necessary to install XenServer in the new box?
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XenServer "Software 3D" acceleration, how to assign more vram?
I build a Proof-of-concept on VMWare Workstation for a streaming service, it works very good. Now I'm trying to build the same thing in XenServer.
In my POC I use software accelerated graphics, with 800MB VRam and 3D accelerations enabled.
How can…
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Dimitri Vervecken
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XenServer not detecting whole RAM (Dom0 and DomU 32-bit issue)
Well, somewhere I has read that my machine has a problem reading all the RAM because of the 32-bit limitation:
http://xenserver.org/blog/entry/the-reality-of-a-64-bit-dom0.html
I don't underestand anything, can somebody explain what this…
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XenServer guest crashes upon connection to console
Background: XenServer 6.5 with Windows 10 guest, Windows XP guest, and 2 Linux guests.
Has been running fine for 2+ months.
Yesterday, when I opened XenCenter and clicked the Windows 10 client's Console tab, the client apparently froze. (Or the…
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Xen Server 6.2 won't start after hotfix install
I've installed latest Xen Server 6.2 hotfix SP1053
My bad, I don't check enough and missing some previous patches. Now server boots and is accessible via ssh but XAPI won't start. xe-toolstack-restart didn't help. Has only plenty of errors
Looks…
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IPv6 in XenServer Guest stops working randomly
My XenServer 7.0 VMs running Ubuntu 16.04 with kernel 4.4.0 decide to cease receiving IPv6 packets shortly after restarting the whole machine or resetting the network interface.
While everything works, running tcpdump on the XenServer host reveals…
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XenServer 6.5 - cannot create Ubuntu 10.04 guest
I have had Ubuntu 10.04 guest VMs running in XenServer 6.2, both 32-bit and 64-bit without problems.
After having upgraded to XenServer 6.5 a while back I now need to create a new VM which is running Ubuntu 10.04 to support some legacy app.
I am…
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Any possible way to read RAID health status within Xenserver without rebooting?
I have an Asus motherboard with PIKE card (based on LSI chipset I believe) running Xenserver 6.5. Is there any way to see the RAID status within the virtual host without the need to reboot and enter the configuration utility?
All I need to know is…
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How to mount VHD file with bootable linux USB
I have a Xenserver which the primary drive has failed to the point it won't boot. However, my RAID containing the SRs is fine. I can boot with gparted USB stick and mount the RAID LVM and see the .VHD files. However, I don't know which VHDs I…
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XenServer 6.5 - Failing creating Virtual Disk Images on a SR set on an USB External Drive
I have a test server running XenServer 6.5, which precisily is the version 6.5.0-90233c. By now I have two linux (Debian and Ubuntu) VMs smoothly running.
I have attached a 1TB USB drive in which I successfuly set the whole disk as a storage…
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XenServer 6.5 Patch Installed But Missing
I installed a few patches in my XenServer 6.5 environment. After I installed the 3 patches I noticed that in XenCenter that my server is saying it needs patch XS65ESP1021 installed.
I confirmed that XS65ESP1021 is already applied to this server. I…
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Cannot Connect to the Internet inside XenServer VM
Recently I've been trying to learn how to use XenServer for another project of mine, whereby I need to be able to programmatically launch and destroy virtual machines from the command line.
As this is primarily a personal project, I haven't been…
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Disable VM Autostart - XenServer
After running updates in XenServer 6.5 I noticed that some virtual machines that were recently turned off started turning on again automatically after the server I applied updates to restarted.
When I go to apply updates through xen center I get…
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