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How to Protect XenServer Virtual Machine (VM) from Deletion
Is it possible to protect a XenServer 6 virtual machine from being deleted? Similar to the protection mode on a amazon ec2 instance. Just an extra step to prevent accidental deletion.
Ideally I ...
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XenServer 6 - Are Advanced features useful between Data Centers
We are purchasing two new dedicated servers. I originally had planned to purchase the XenServer 6.0 Advanced add-on which gives you the following features:
Specifically these features
Distributed ...
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The certificate in your keychain is not trusted. Citrix XenServer [closed]
Im trying to setup up a virtual environment on my network so I can send the load to my server instead of my crappy laptop. I installed xenserver on my power edge and I am able to connect to it via ...
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Citrix XenServer, networking how
I am new to virtual servers, vlans. I am a programmer and have been assigned the task to make a stable storage server, i threw XenServer Free 5.6SP2 on an old box (HP ProLiant ML350 G5) set my ...
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Ubuntu server 12.04 on XenServer 5.5 - Won't boot from iso
I can't get the Ubuntu server 12.04 ISO to boot in XenServer 5.5.
It is not a problem with the ISO or the share because I have used the iso to install locally and I can install other ISOs from the ...
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XenServer 6.0 Advanced - Is it an add-on or part of initial install?
I'm looking to purchase a new dedicated server and have XenServer 6.0 installed. There is an option to include XenServer 6.0 Advanced which has some additional features. However we don't need those ...
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How to enable reboot/shutdown menu on xencenter
I am using the latest XenCenter 6.0.2, On a Xenserver version 6.0.0 when doing a right click on the VM I get a menu that has options for a Shut down and Reboot.
ON a server with XenServer 6.0.2 the ...
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Citrix XenApp Fundamentals
I have a problem with a new install of a XenApp Citrix server.
Everything was working fine, but I was setting up Citrix Access Gateway and single sign in. Now, on the main server I am getting an ...
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CentOS will not boot. Error 13
I am having trouble with one of our CentOS servers.
I migrated this server to XenServer, installed a new xen kernel, and performed a mkinitrd with:
mkinitrd --omit-scsi-modules --with=xennet ...
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XenServer VMs can't reach network
I'm currently trying to setup a small cloud architecture , I'm using in the installation CloudStack 2.2.14 which need two node : a management server (as node1) to provision the cloud and a hypervisor ...
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Xen hypervisor maximum domu support [closed]
Can anyone please let me know that what are Xen Hypervisor 4.x limitations.
How many virtual machines i can create with what memory and cpu?
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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: Editing clone configuration before boot
Upon cloning a base image, I need to reconfigure basic settings. Regenerating the ssh host key, changing static IP assignments, setting the host name, etc.
Because of the network setup, DHCP is not ...
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Can I install Xenserver with larger local storage?
I installed XenServer 6.0 on a machine with 2 drives (80GB SSD and 1TB SATA). My goal is to have some space for local storage where I can put ISO (since it will be very difficult to access the box ...
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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 ...
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Bad VNC display in XEN
I'm using Xen hypervisor with CentOS 6. Xen is working fine but when i access guest using virt-manager it does not display screen properly. Please find the attachment which would show you how vnc show ...
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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. ...
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XP vm disk benchmark on xenserver 5.6
While benchmarking the disk on a Windows XP VM under XenServer 5.6 I get a peak for a couple of seconds to ~200 MB/s before it drops back to an average of 30 MB/s. Is this normal?
My configuration ...
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pre-installed Ubuntu VM for XenServer
Is there pre-installed Ubuntu vm for XenServer which I could download and import in my XenServer?
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xenserver 5.6 on on raid 10 array
We've always had performance issues with our Xenserver 5.6 and ive asked a question here about it and still didnt manage to get it resolved ...
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High load on Xen guests
We're facing a weird issue with a freshly installed Xen (4.2) system.
The server is an Intel SR1690WB equipped with 4x1Tb HDD and with a RS2BL040 RAID card which configured to use RAID10.
The ...
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Why am I having trouble installing Xenserver?
I have two almost identical servers:
Supermicro X8SIL-F
Intel x3470
16GB RAM
16GB USB Pendrive
I have tried installing XenServer 6 on both servers but when the server then attempts to boot it hangs ...
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I need a way to manage IP usage / MAC assignments for all of our infrastructure
I manage several XenServer nodes. I need a way to track IP usage and the MAC addresses associated with them. I also need a way to communicate with other staff about assignments and place work orders.
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XenServer shared drive configuration
I have a server with below configuration
Intel Xeon E3 - 1230
2 * (Seagate 1 TeraByte) = total two terabyte
16 GB Ram
My Requirement : I need to run XenServer on this box and run 4 Ubuntu Virtual ...
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The VM could not be imported; the end of the file was reached prematurely
please any one help me
I have xen server 5.6, i tried export the VM's from it to xen server 6.0 using xen centre, so I import .xva files into my desktop then i tried import it to xen server 6.0, this ...
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I cannot see any VMs after I restart the xenhost
We have two xen host server in xen server pool. Host1 is the master and host2 is the slave. We restarted the xenhost1 due to server load. After the restart we could not view any VMs or the slave node ...
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netconsole or serial logging in XenServer DomU
I have some problems with stability of Debian guests in my XenServer hosts.
To debug this problem I wanted to use netconsole kernel module, unfortunately, because the Ethernet controller is emulated, ...
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Optimising bare-metal hypervisor installation
what is the best way to install a bare metal hypervisor (i.e. to host multiple VM's)? I spoke to a friend and he is using a HP server to host all his VMs with VMware ESXi, but he installed the VMWARE ...
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Using a virtual machine as a router in vSphere ESXi or XenServer
I have a server with adequate amount of memory and also I have a single static IP. I want to install XenServer or ESXi on my server and create bunch of virtual machines. In order to use all these ...
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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 ...
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Xen VM won't start: “Cannot plug VIF”
I've got a VM on a citrix xenserver 5.0.0 machine that won't start. it was running fine until it was rebooted on a Fri afternoon, a few weeks ago.
Starting it from the (windows-only) xencenter GUI ...
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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' - ...
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Setting up a private network for XenDesktop
What I'm trying to do is set up and test out XenServer and XenDesktop. What I've done so far is install XenServer and Windows7 with XenCenter on two machines. I've successfully been able to create ...
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Extending local Storage Repository in XenServer 6.0
My server has 2x 3-disk RAID 5 arrays. This weekend I plan on deleting the second array and adding the HDDs to the first array.
However how would I go about extending the partition in XenServer 6.0 ...
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Where does Xenserver store local VMs
My xenserver crashed a few months ago, I haven't been able to retrieve the VMs that were on it.
There was nothing special about the installation, I think it was all standard.
Is there a way to ...
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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 ...
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Xen server VM's don't see network?
We trying a Xen server, and have a very strange issue, one that never happened to us on open-source Xen.
The VM's created on Xen do not see the network outside the host. They do can ping each other ...
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mixing single path and multipath SR's in a Xenserver pool
Has anyone attempted to run a single path iSCSI SR alongside a multipath iSCSI SR in a Xenserver 5.6 pool?
We're migrating from an old SAN to a new one and I want the new one to use multipathing.
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Xenserver 6.0 Freezes on Install
I've been trying to get XenServer 5.5 upgraded to 6.0 on my Rackable Systems boxes with Intel S500PSL boards. However when booting the install it freezes when i select an option at the splash screen. ...
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Is there a bandwidth efficient way to setup VM on a remote XenServer?
Is there a bandwidth efficient way to setup VM (like setting up Linux / Windows from Console) from a remote XenServer?
I am trying to setup Linux/Windows vm from a remote server; however the console ...
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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 ...
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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 capaciy--could this prevent the VM from starting up?
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How can I obtain a new XenServer license using only the command line?
Many sites explain how to renew the license using XenCenter. Is there a way to do this directly from the console?
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Mounting filesystem of VM from dom0 in XEN
I have XEN 4.0.x.x and Cent os 5.5
There is an .image file of each VM stored on dom0 in /var/lib/xen/images directory. Is it a some block on the hard disk which I can mount this file from dom0 and ...
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xm console command is not working in XEN
I have XEN 4.0.x.x rpm with CENT OS. I have set it up and have many VMs on it. But problem is when I execute 'xm console ' command from dom0, command just hangs dom0 and some 'y' comes up in next line ...
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Is there option to provide IP address while cloning a VM itself in XEN
I use XEN virtualization platform. I have configured its networking in xenbr0 mode. I have set up one base VM and I am cloning it to create new VMs by using virt-clone command.
My question is there ...
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Error while starting 9th Virtual machine installed on XEN
I have a blade server of HP proliant with 64 Gb of RAM and 1TB hard-disk. I installed Cent OS 5.6 with XEN enabled on it.
I used xenbr0(xenbridge) mode and not virbr0 mode for configuring my ...
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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 ...
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Systemrescueconsole after install xenserver tools | How to use the Recovery Cosnole
I have trouble with Windows Server 2008 R2, after updating XenServer tools the server starts in Recovery Console from Drive X, on Drive C is a system reserved partition and on Drive d there is the ...
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handle fork bomb on a virtualized environment XenServer / “FreeBSD jails”
I am used to work with FreeBSD jails but I wanted to give a try to XenServer 5.5 / Vmware ESXI 5, hoping it can really limit resources per VM, after installing a couple of Virtual Machines, I tried to ...
