XenServer is the virtualization platform Citrix has built around the Xen Hypervisor.
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XenServer 6.2 IPv6 routing
I'm having trouble setting up a new server (hosted at "hetzner") with latest XenServer 6.2.
IPv4 is working fine, but I'm stuck at IPv6 Setup.
What I got so far:
xen:
$> ip -6 addr
1: lo: mtu 16436
inet6 ::1/128 scope…
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FreeBSD XEN kernel not booting in XenServer 6.2
I have a XenServer 6.2 host, and I am trying to get a FreeBSD-9.1-i386 guest to run in PV mode.
The installation of the guest is fine, but after a reboot with the new kernel the system does not boot.
make buildkernel KERNCONF=XEN
make installkernel…
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How to keep iptables organized in Xenserver?
I need to use a couple of iptables rules to allow ports for additional services and implement some NATted services.
In /etc/sysconfig/iptables it says not to edit this file directly. I understand there are some GUI/TUI tools included in…
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iSCSI Storage with Broadcom BCM5709 Offload in XenServer 6.2
I'm in a process of migration from ESXi to XenServer. But we can't add our iSCSI Storage via Hardware HBA in XenServer 6.2.
I've tried to manually load bnx2i and cnic modules via modprobe but it has no effects and the LUN's does not appear in the…
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XenServer 6.2 fails to boot on IBM System x3550 M2
I'm trying to install XenServer 6.2 on a IBM System x3550 M2 but it simply doesn't work.
The installation process works fine in the internal Seagate hard disk, but the machine fails to boot XenServer on the IBM hardware. The syslinux loader don't…
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Citrix VDI-In-a-Box Taking "Milestone Snapshots"
We're using Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, with XenServer on the back-end. I noticed in one of my deployed images, either XenServer for VDI in a box is creating snapshots automatically. The snapshots are listed as "ComputerName"Milestone (snapshot).
This is…
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PXE Installation of XenServer 6.2
I've added XenServer 6.2 to our PXE/TFTP server. Everything went fine, but I cannot install XenServer as is. We get the XCP version instead of XenServer 6.2. Is this supposed to be normal?
Here are my configuration files:
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How to change disk controller of a VM running on XenServer 6.2?
I'm running a installation of XenServer 6.2 where I've imported a .ova.
The .ova is an image of a linux-system from a previous vmware esxi environment.
The problem is that since the linux-image doesn't support all disk controllers, I would like to…
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How to add missing kernel modules into xenserver using DDK?
Not sure if this is the best place to ask this question, stackoverflow doesn't seem quite right... anyway, maybe someone has done this before here.
I would like to add some missing kernel modules into my XenServer installs to support infiniband…
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How do I make groupinstall work on XenServer 6.2?
I have a XenServer system that I'm wanting to add some extra packages to.
The problem I have is that XenServer is based on a stripped down CentOS 5.6 installation and the command "yum grouplist" returns no group data.
Ultimately, what I'm wanting to…
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install xenserver 6.2 on 3ware 9750 raid5
I would like to install XenServer 6.2 (kernel 2.6.32) on a raid5 managed by a 3ware 9750 controller. The XenServer installer doesn't recognize the raid5 and i think i have to load a driver for the 3ware 9750 4i controller.
I found a download…
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XenServer - Does the Hypervisor act as a router?
I have a XenServer installed running multiple OS's testing GlusterFS. My Colleague says that the Xen Hyper-visor routes the connectivity inside the Hyper-visor and it never enters the network. That is if one Virtual OS talked to another Virtual OS…
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Xenserver: Pass parameters during VM build
On XenServer is there any way to read VM metadata (Custom fields, Tags, VM Name) from inside the VM using Linux (CentOS 5.8) ?
Basically what I want to do is:
Create new VM using
xe vm-install template=MYTEMPLATE new-name-label=MYVM
Read metadata…
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What RAID policies should be used for a XenServer host?
I have a server with a PERC6/i card and a RAID-10 array running XenServer 6.1 with 6x VMs, one of which is SBS 2008 and the rest are a mix of file server, video-on-demand and SQL database server.
The current read/write/cache policies are as…
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XenServer disk space maxed out but no idea why?
My XenServer 6.1 installation reports the following for the local SR:
3711.6 GB used of 3717 GB total (1491 GB allocated)
There are no snapshots visible under the "snapshots" tab of each VM and the host has been rebooted but to no avail. The problem…
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