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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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What is a good server configuration for VM host? [closed]
We look to buy a new server to serve as VM host for 8 - 12 VK guests. The server will probably run XenCenter, or XenCloud.
The guest will be mixed Windows and Linux, with 1 - 2 GB ram each, and ...
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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 ...
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Home storage/virtualization solution [closed]
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 ...
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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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HP Server ml370 G5 raid determing problem
I use a HP ProLiant ml370G5 server,
and It's OS is XenServer from Citrix.(based on Xen)
Last week one it's Hard disk has been damaged and I want to change it.
I want to know what is it's Raid ...
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Location of vm data on xen center
I can't find the vm data (metadata files, disk images) mounted anywhere on the xenserver server. Where is it located, and how can I reach it from dom0?
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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 ...
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XenServer/Center Administration for Noob
I am a developer that knows a bit about server config/admin. I took a job at a start up and I am now in charge of IT as well as development.
We have a Dell PowerEdge T610 running XenServer (free) ...
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Instruct Linux to cache files in swapfile
Background: The Linux VFS cache will cache every file that is read from the disk in memory. This keeps going until RAM is full, at which point the oldest files get kicked from the cache.
I am ...
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Linux filesystem of VM becomes crash or read-only at Citrix XenServer
I read some answers related to this problems.
Will the OS crash if the system partition can't be access for a short period?
But I cannot solve this problem.
When using ISCSI as Storage Repository ...
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V2V conversion - linux distro from .vmdk to XenServer .vhd
I am running XenServer for virtualization. I have a linux distro with Big Blue Button (http://bigbluebutton.org/) in .vmdk format that I'd like to run on my XenServer (it uses .vhd files). Problem is ...
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Citrix Xenserver vs xen 4.1 hypervisor vs xen XCP etc?
I'm needing to use XEN for a project that contains multiple GPU cards with PCI passthrough.
However, I'm not really sure which version of XEN I should be using. In all likelyhood I may need to tweak ...
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Multiple XEN nodes with the same external ip?
I have a server with debian that uses the xen kernel. I've successfully created and started 2 xen nodes, lets call them xen1.domain.com and xen2.domain.com. They both have their own internal ip and ...
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xenserver: installation via kickstart file after adding storage
export MGUID=`xe vm-install template=centos6 new-name-label="centos 6 test install 3"`
xe vm-disk-add disk-size=11GiB vm=$MGUID sr-uuid=$STORAGE_UID device=0
xe vm-param-set uuid="$MGUID" ...
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XEN server not routing traffic to DomU
I am sticking with this problem for a couple of hours now and I am just not finding the right hint.
Dom0 is a Debian Squeeze.
I setup a Xen Server on a Dom0 using apt-get.
Dom0 has the ip ...
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Adding an ssh key to a Xen VM
I recently needed to restart a Xen host box, and now I can no longer ssh into the VMs. I was able to before, but now I get Permission denied (publickey).
I am not too experienced with Xen, is there ...
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Citrix XenServer: how to add RAM to a guest VM without XenCenter?
Is it possible to add RAM to a guest VM in without using XenCenter, but from the host machine console or a remote machine?
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DFS File Storage and XenServer VMs on iSCSI Target with Two, Cross-Country locations
I am planning on deploying a NAS/iSCSI target cluster of two Dell NX3100 servers running Windows Server 2008 R2.
Here are some of the environment details currently:
I have two office locations on ...
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How can I mount a XenServer VHD from an iSCSI SR in Ubuntu?
I need to get files from a Linux VM that was hosted on an iSCSI volume attached to a XenServer host, but I no longer have any XS hosts around (they've all been converted to VMware).
I've already ...
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Xencenter guest will not boot
I have xen server free edition.
Today one of the guest VM was very loaded and I decided to reboot it.
Now it can not start. It is with Ubuntu 10.04 Server.
The machine is shown as running in xsconsole ...
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XenCenter Client Logins
Currently, I have a XenServer and XenCenter setup with my root account which allows me to manage all the VM's on the server.
I'd like to know if it is possible to create client accounts in XenServer ...
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Fragile XenServer won't create new VDIs anymore
I'm getting increasingly frustrated with XenServer. Currently I'm using 5.6FP1 and it seems to be very fragile. Canceling any VDI-related action almost guarantees trouble.
This time I tried to create ...
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How to unhide a VM in Xen?
After failed OVF import, I have some VMs which are appearing in XenCenter only if I enable Hidden Objects option in View menu.
How can I unhide a hidden Virtual Machine in Xen Server?
