XenServer is the virtualization platform Citrix has built around the Xen Hypervisor.
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Remote automated provisioning to a XenServer Hypervisor
I'm currently working on a project where I use Vagrant with Ansible provisioning to create local environments in VirtualBox. I'm currently working with a University and we have a XenServer Hypervisor (free edition). I can't access the hypervisor…
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File is different when read from NFS server
So I have a backup server we've been using for some time, it's a FreeBSD server running zfs and serving it over NFS. The export is simple: /backup/vm -maproot=root -alldirs. If relevant, that was configured through zfs:
zfs get…
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RHEL Clones (Centos, Scientific, CERN) network installation on XenServer 6.2
I'm trying to install a Scientific Linux CERN 6 guest on XenServer 6.2 through the network with PXE Booting but it hangs in the message:
mounting /tmp as tmpfs... done
I'm not using the most equivalent template (the CentOS 6 template) to install…
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Vinícius Ferrão
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Can I safely uninstall "Citrix Tools for Virtual Machines"?
Having several virtual servers with Windows 2008 R2 at our web hoster (Germany's "1&1", they seem to use Citrix Xen), I have every now and then some servers that hang (RDP login screen hangs forever).
Only turning the server off and on again via the…
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Uwe Keim
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XenServer migrate machines between hosts
I have a XenServer 5.6 Free setup with 5 VMs (Windows and Linux) using about 1.5TB of directly attached storage.
Because our virtualisation needs have grown a bit, we currently are preparing a faster XenServer 6.0 Free machine with more RAM and a…
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XenServer Performance
we've got 2 x HP DL360 G5s with Quad Quad Xeons 2.6GHz and 32GB of memory each running XenServer 5.5 and they access an OpenFiler box (with 8 x 320GB SAS 10K drives) via copper CAT5 (1GB) for the storage.
We've used this setup for testing a lot of…
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How do I setup virtual networking Xenserver?
I'd have a network like this currently. Basically, It's two Xenservers connected to our colocation provider's switch via one ethernet cable per server. Each server currently has a second ethernet card which storage is attached to (iSCSI). Each of…
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Some questions about xenserver HA
To start thank you for your future help :)
I would like to know if it is possible to wrap my H.A as on my paint (excused me the quality of the drawing).
I would also like to know how it goes with the ipv4 failover blocks in the case of an HA and a…
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How can I convert a iSCSI system disk from XenServer to another format
Perhaps this is quite a silly question. I installed a new VM on XenServer. It loads the full system from a iSCSI from a NAS. Now I am planning to migrate to Proxmox as XenServer falls short regarding USB passthrough. Nevertheless, I don't have a…
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Which is the best inexpensive way to manage five virtualization hosts?
for the 5 (physical) servers in our datacenter, I'm looking for a unified virtualization design. All 5 servers do not come with hardware virtualization support (older XEONs). Since we're an NGO on low budget, price does play a key role here.
The…
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What are the implications of running an older version of xenserver tools on VMs?
As part of my day-job I manage a couple of xenserver pools. I've been working through the old ones, bringing them up to xenserver 6.5 from a range of older versions 5.5, 6.0, 6.1, and 6.2
Many of the VMs now have an older version of xenserver…
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Desktop virtualization
Is there currently a proper Type 1 "desktop" hypervisor? Either free or not?
This is just for tinkering around at home on some beefy Phenom machines.
Basically i want to be able to run say 2 OSs on the same PC but without loading windows or a heavy…
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XenServer 6.5 iSCSI MPIO with point-to-point links (without a Switch)
I'm doing some experiment with iSCSI MPIO between FreeNAS 9.3 and two XenServer 6.5 hosts. I would like to use iSCSI MPIO to serve as VM storage. Pretty common environment, but without a switch to reduce the cost of the solution and minimize the…
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XenServer 6.2 to 6.5 - rebuild servers?
It appears the XenServer 6.5 has been released and it's quite a bit faster than 6.2 in many ways.
When I installed 6.2 I accepted the various defaults and end up with a system that is awkwardly partitioned. Root is rather small (and perpetually…
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CentOS 7.0 as DomU in XenServer 6.2 SP1; cannot run with PV drivers?
It appears that CentOS 7 cannot work with paravirtualized drivers with XenServer 6.2
I’ve installed one PVHVM guest with the xs-tools package but the drivers fails to connect at bootime.
I got this message on the dmesg, on the DomU:
[ 0.000000]…
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