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

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XenCenter no OS boot parameters field

I just recognized, that 2 of my 10 VMs in XenCenter have a slightly different properties window. In these two VMs I cannot set OS boot parameters, because in the window I can only set the boot order. So I have attached two screenshots from the…
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Can I use XenServer GPU Pass-Through without XenDesktop?

XenServer documentation only covers using GPU Pass-Through ("vGPU") to run XenDesktop's "HDX 3D Pro Graphics." XenServer GPU Pass-Through cannot be used with the XenCenter VNC console and it does not appear to accelerate apps over Remote…
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How can I prevent a second network interface from updating DNS with its IP address?

Recently I added a second network interface to my Domain Controller, and assigned a private subnet to provide a iSCSI volume for backups, but the IP address from this interface is being propagated to my DNS server. So now, when I use nslookup…
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How to use iSCSI MPIO to increase bandwidth with XenServer?

I have a FreeNAS Server with four network interfaces. The iSCSI traffic goes through two of those interfaces, and each interface has one IP address in a different subnet. As example: igb0: 192.168.10.1/24 igb1: 192.168.11.1/24 There are three…
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Change screen resolution of Xenserver Console for a CentOS VM

I need to increase screen resolution to 1024x800 for all my XEN console. I tried to place "vga=791" at the end of kernel line the file /boot/grub/grub.conf but it seems that most of the boots arguments are ignored during startup. Probably inside…
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Smart solution for XenServer firewall?

I've been searching for a smart solution for a XenServer firewall for about a month now. The documentation for the new default networking backend "openvswitch" is not that detailed and I can barely find guides to filter packages with OVS. The other…
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How to increase CPU core speed of a guest to maximum of Citrix Xenserver Host

There is a Citrix XenServer 5.5 (HP ML370 G5, Xeon 2GHz) on this Server there is a Windows Guest (Windows 2008 R2 x64) under Properties I set 4 CPU Cores with max prio. But if I check with CPU-Z the performance of the CPU from Host there is set the…
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How to configure Single-Server Private Network in Xenserver without using VLAN?

I would like to create a Single Server private Network on a Xenserver which will be used for communication between the host and the VMs. I am able to achive this by creating a vlan and configuring the pif. But when looking at the XenCenter, there…
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Difference between snapshot export and VM export for backup purposes

I'm new to xen server, and would like to know few things about the best ways to do a complete back up of a VM. I'm using XenCenter and have encountered some issues wih exporting a complete VM : the export is very very slow, and fails after few…
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XenServer 6.2 Yum Repository

I installed a clean XenServer 6.2 from the ISOs provided here. I want to compile a driver against this system and need to install make and sources and so on. If I do yum install make I get [root@xenserver-2 driver]# yum install make Loaded plugins:…
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Xen memory management on small server

I am currently running VMware vSphere 5 on a server I use for various projects. Mainly I use it for honing my skills with administration and running a few game servers. Recently I was considering a move to Xen (xen.org) or possibly Citrix XenServer…
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Does my dual core AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ support AMD-V?

I am trying to setup some VM's on Citrix XenServer but can't enable Hardware Virtualization support. In the XenServer install it prompted me to enable this, and upon creating a VM I got a "HVM required" error. I have a dual core AMD Athlon 64 X2…
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export XenServer snapshot as file via console

I have created a snapshot of a Citrix XenServer virtual machine using XenCenter, and now I would like to save this snapshot as an *.xva file, just as if I right-click on the snapshot icon in XenCenter and choose "Export to file...". However since…
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To SSD or not to SSD? (Virtualization - Xenserver)

I have several Xenserver boxes running (very well). Most of ours are setup with a RAID1 with two mechanical 7200rpm enterprise sata drives, or RAID10 with 4 7200 enterprise sata drives. The sata drives were selected due to high capacity for the…
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Xenserver 5.6 SR_BACKEND_FAILURE_47 no such volume group, but it is there

I've looked everywhere (Google, here, a bunch of other sites), and while I have found people with similar problems, I couldn't find a single one with a solution to this. Last night our xenserver 5.6 box corrupted the /var/xapi/state.db, and I…
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