Questions tagged [xenserver]

XenServer is the virtualization platform Citrix has built around the Xen Hypervisor.

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Is is possible to use static VIFs on Xen?

Is it possible to use Static VIF names for virtual nics in Xen? Which don´t change on reboot of the VM?
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XenServer 6.0.2 path to installation media contains non-ascii characters

XenServer 6.0.2 install fails no matter what I do. I have confirmed that the md5 checksum on my ISO file is good. I tried installing from a mounted ISO file (remotely via iKVM). I tried installing from physical media. I tried installing from a…
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Adding 4TB local SR to XenServer 5.6 SP2

I'm trying to add a secondary local SR to XenServer but not having any success. The server has two RAID 10 arrays; the primary array was selected for VM storage in XenServer setup - it totals 272GB. The secondary array is 4TB in total but there's no…
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Citrix XenServer 5.5 Licensing

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my software licensing question? We are currently evaluating two free bare-metal virtualization product: VMware ESXi 4.0 and Citrix XenServer 5.5. While both look good on the reviews, we are curious about…
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How do you get xenserver and associated vms to gracefully shutdown after power failure?

I'm looking at implementing xenserver and would like to know how to get xenserver to gracefully shutdown all vms after a power failure.
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The VM could not be imported; the end of the file was reached prematurely

I am trying to transfer VMs from XenServer 5.6 to XenServer 6.0. I exported the VMs from XenServer 5.6 to .xva files on my desktop. Then when I tried to import one into XenServer 6.0, this error message appeared: The VM could not be imported; the…
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Multiple Xen instances through 1 single IP

I am a developer with not much networking experience, here is my situation: I have a server with one reputable provider, managed to get Xen running with lots of LVM space to get around 3 virtual machines running which should suit my needs. The…
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XenServer 6.0 upgrade pygrub error

Just upgraded our XenServer testmachine from 5.6 to 6.0, one of the vms' (ubuntu-server 10.04 LTS) will no longer boot. Error in XenCenter; 9/11/2011 3:48:23 PM Error: Starting VM 'TestDom-Ubuntu' - Traceback (most recent call last): File…
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Storage for a small XenDesktop deployment

We are currently looking for a server-side virtualization solution for our developer desktop-systems. We so far chose XenDesktop since we are already running Xen for virtualized servers. This is a small deployment, we are talking about 30-40…
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Guest VM on XenServer unable to reach network

We have set up a XenServer, and trying to set-up a CentOS 6 guest VM. The installation went fine (using RHEL 6 template), but I'm unable to properly configure the network. The guest VM is able to ping the host machine, but unable to ping any outside…
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Can reaching shared storage capacity prevent a VM from starting up in XenServer?

I have a VM installed on XenServer; it's drive is on an NFS share, which has just reached capacity--could this prevent the VM from starting up?
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how to force stop/delete a VirtualMachine under XenServer (possible bug)

I was testing XenServer 5.6 100-47101p, I installed four VM's, two FreeBSD and two Windows. After installing the four VM's, I recompiled the VM containing FreeBSD 8.2 i386 kernel to enable/support XEN, after rebooting, the console on the…
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Home storage/virtualization solution

I recently bought some "decent" hardware to create myself a home server whose main task should be to serve a NAS to my other computers / tablet / etc. However, I would like to also use the computer as a host for virtualized machines, to create some…
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Where has the xen.git git repository for Xen gone since the Kernel.org attack?

Has it been put up anywhere else for now? I know the Kernel has been put up on Github for now. The git url that we were using was, git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git
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Xen virtualized Server 2K8R2 w/ SQL 2K8 becomming unresponsive

About a year ago, we virtualized most of our small business Windows and Linux infrastructure, which included starting a fresh (not P2V) Server 2008 R2 VM. This performed acceptably until a few weeks ago, when the following changes were made: Xen…