Questions tagged [xenserver]

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

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Windows 2008 R2 migration to XenServer 6.1

I'm currently testing the migration process of a Windows 2008 server (R2) to Xenserver. Currently I have a windows 2008 R2 server running ( Domain controller, dns, ... ) and I want to migrate this to Xenserver. I tried different approaches but I…
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How do I create a local HTTP mirror for XenServer installation using IIS?

We are planning to perform an Rolling Pool Upgrade using the "automatic method" described in the Citrix XenServer ® 6.1.0 Installation Guide (at http://support.citrix.com/servlet/KbServlet/download/32308-102-691301/installation.pdf) In order to use…
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No PV option for xapi?

I have installed xcp-xapi on my Dom0 server. When I tried to create a VM, I found there are no options for me to create a PV VM based on existed kernel, initrd image and qcow2 disk image! Anyone can tell me how to create a PV VM via Xen API? In xl,…
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How do you initialize networking on a new Xen guest VM?

We have a Citrix XenServer setup, and while I personally lean more towards Dev than Ops, I've got an issue that's been bugging me. When you provision a new (Linux/Ubuntu) guest, how do you get it to have the correct IP-address? I'd want my…
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Xen hypervisor 4.1 Kernel Panic on Ubuntu 12.04

I have a fresh Ubuntu 12.04.1 amd64 server install following this guide I have used LVM option used all disk and make 2 LV /dev/mapper/vg-root / (80GB) vg-swap swap (4GB) now i install xen with apt-get install xen-hypervisor-4.1-amd64 and config…
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How can vms be assigned to physical cores or threads in xen

I am having intel EX5620 Cpu which has 4 Cores and 8 threads. cat /proc/cpuinfo is showing 8 cpus. From xen's wiki page they are saying its better to assign each vm to cpu core for better performance. So In this case does that mean i can run…
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Trying to re-attach CIFS ISO share, XenServer SR_BACKEND_FAILURE_222

My CIFS mount for ISOs stopped working recently. I tried to detatch it and re-attach it, however I get the following error: http://imgur.com/0R47r I tried looking this error up, however I cannot conclusively determine what is failing. I have…
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How to makesure VM is in Para virtualization mode on XEN?

I am having a server running XEN,with ubuntu 12.04 as Domain 0. Intel VT is turned on by default and i dont want to run any Windows OS as VM. So 1. how can i makesure that all the created VM will be in paravirtualized mode even with VT enabled? I…
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Managing XenServer and its Virtual Machines Remotely

I have a dedicated server in a data center and I want to install XenServer for virtualization. XenServer will be running 2 or 3 virtual servers, all of which will be using Public IP's along with a remotely accessible SSH tunnel. I want to know how I…
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard to Enterprise Problems

A few months ago I setup a Citrix XenApp cluster running on Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition using the temporary 180 day license key. Recently the company bought a Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise DataCenter license. This means I need to…
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can xen server be configured to address more than 4 GB for host machine

Can xen server be configured to address more than 4Gb RAM. Since its based on a 32 bit kernel,is it possible to address more than 4GB ram.I have heard about PAE can it solve this? Will changing the default 750M to more than 4Gb results in any…
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IP setting in CentoOS 6.2x64 by XenCenter 6.2

I have setup a Guest CentOS virtual machine in Xenserver.. I have updated the Xentools but i cannot find the option to config my IP Address which is showing to be 'unknown' currently. All i need to do is assign an IP address to this centOS…
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Why Xen Cloud Platform XCP is not offering every feature as promised?

I have installed XCP (Xen Cloud Platform) 1.1 on my machine and installed XEN Centre (version 6.0) on my windows xp i created VM and its running just like in XEN server Free,but its not allowing to take snapshot,template etc its showing "requires…
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Security risk of XEN Server Free with public ip?

I am having a dedicated machine,from some hosting company and i have KVM access to it i wish to virtualize it using XEN's bare metal hyperviosr,(XEN server Free). Will it be possible to manage VM's remotely through ssh or ssl using Citrix…
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xenserver, fedora guest ext grow ext4 partition

I've got a partition on a guest fedora system running in xenserver. Originally the size of the partition was 400GB. I recently extended the size to 600GB. It now shows in the xenserver console as being 600GB, however, when I get the disk size from…
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