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Free hypervisor for small configuration
If you are running server 2012 then you already have access to hyper-v. The free hyper-v should serve your needs, you can run the GUI from any client or the 2012 server. This would also get you ...
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Is Administering XenServer like administering CentOS?
Keep in mind that the OS is stripped even if based on a release, as if the gear is in the HCL, you will mostly never use any OS command.
Most command you will ever use to administer it would be in ...
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Is Administering XenServer like administering CentOS?
Primarily, you are committing to work in the XenServer way. This product is essentially an appliance and most of the things that are different between Debian and CentOS are hidden from you anyway or ...
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Free hypervisor for small configuration
You can use VMware ESXi for free... You don't necessarily need to use the web interface, and the product works very well with the thick client.
Or better, buy a vSphere Essentials license ($500) and ...
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Unable to extend partition with gdisk on XenServer 6.5
Let gdisk verify the disk for problems (key v).
In my case it identified:
The secondary header's self-pointer indicates that it doesn't reside at the end of the disk. If you've added a disk to a RAID ...
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Free hypervisor for small configuration
Use proxmox, an hypervisor based on KVM (other containers types also supported) all integrated via a web interface. We use this on dell rack servers and it is just perfect for small companies. You can ...
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/dev/centos/root does not exist after migrating CentOS7 from vmware to Xen
I've been using Starwinds V2V converter https://www.starwindsoftware.com/converter for a similar task a while ago.
It supports multiple virtual machine disks formats and does internal hardware ...
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USB passthrough (non storage) to XenServer 7 VM
Not supported
Sorry. This has been a requested feature since 2007. And as of 2016 it is still unsupported.
You may have to buy a dedicated USB-to-Ethernet dongle server. I have no experience with ...
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How can I convert a iSCSI system disk from XenServer to another format
To get disk image do P2V and/or V2V:
attach iSCSI to Windows by ISCSI initialtor.
create VHDX using Disk2vhd (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx)
convert VHDX to QCOW ...
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CentOS 7 on XenServer 6.5
You need to start the installer with inst.vnc option. Select option "Install CentOS 7" and then press [tab]. Remove 'quiet' and add 'inst.vnc' to kernel command line. Press [enter].
After that, wait ...
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Some questions about xenserver HA
Yes, you can do HA for the scenario you have described. To do so, you create an iSCSI target with multipathing and setup shared volume on top of it. Connect each compute host to target and check the ...
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Remote automated provisioning to a XenServer Hypervisor
For the next guy looking into this:
The solution is to read the XenServer guest installation guide and use a search engine. ;)
First, there's a ansible playbook with nice documentation for setting ...
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How to Run Updates Xenserver 6.5 Free Edition
Yes, updating through XenCenter is one of the features of the paid edition. On the free edition you need to (I somehow missed that difference between 6.2 and 6.5 - indeed Xencenter 6.5 allows updating ...
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Unable to Active Xenserver Free License
XenServer 6.2 and 6.5 do not require any license to use the free version: you can use all free features without activation.
The "Activate Free XenServer" button in XenCenter dates from versions prior ...
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Converting Linux machine from XenServer to Hyper-V
EDITED ANSWER:
I've been thinking about your problem, and I think that rsync or dd backup/restore might be your best bet. If you are using dynamically growing vhdds, then rsync is probably your best ...
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/dev/centos/root does not exist after migrating CentOS7 from vmware to Xen
There was the same question on Reddit.
The main idea — you need to regenerate initrd.
Boot into linux rescue
Call dracut -f according to this article.
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Ubuntu 16.04 Virtual Machine / XenServer Storage Extend Issue
I am not sure exactly what steps you followed, But below three things need to happen to increase the disk available to a Linux VM:
Increase the disk size available to a VM in XenCenter.
Increase the ...
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Is there a command to scan an existing XenServer storage repository for VMs?
It is no such easy way and according to my experience, it is easier to reattach the disks to newly created VMs. However, check this article
https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX136342
(Restoring the ...
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What would cause a XenServer 7.2 Windows 2019 VM to not release Driver Locked Memory back to the OS?
It is a known bug with Xentools drivers:
https://discussions.citrix.com/topic/393322-memory-leak-on-xenserver-72-with-xentools-installed/
https://discussions.citrix.com/topic/391945-topic-memory-leak-...
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7Zip extraction on linux is so slow
I had the same issue, and the fix was to upgrade 7z. On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, the 7z you get from apt install is from 2016. Instead, go download the latest version from the official website.
For the same ...
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Xenserver Virtual Adapter Limit
Every template in XenServer has a "hint" about max number of VIFs. This only restricts XenCenter GUI, and you can easily add more NICs from command line. See xe help vif-create.
You can also change a ...
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How to unhide a VM in Xen?
Current accepted answer is not safe to execute, as commented by @user160198, it will clear all params. This should have been an answer instead of comment.
xe vm-param-remove uuid=<vm-uuid> ...
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Free hypervisor for small configuration
I can't say how well Windows works with KVM, but I think it's worth testing. There are PV drivers available for Windows. It wouldn't be so bad to setup a VM and run some benchmarks.
KVM is nice ...
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Free hypervisor for small configuration
As others already suggested, if you already have a Windows Server license, you thus have an enterprise-grade virtualization platform in your possession. If it is a Standard edition, then you can use ...
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My Dell 1950 iii can't enable Virtualization Technology (VT-x)
Under CPU/PROCESSOR SETTINGS you should be able to set VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGY to enabled, as shown here
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Any possible way to read RAID health status within Xenserver without rebooting?
1) There are two different utilities for managing LSI SAS controllers: mpt-status (opensource) and lsiutil (proprietary). Both are described at http://hwraid.le-vert.net/wiki/LSIFusionMPT page.
2) ...
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Is Administering XenServer like administering CentOS?
I work with Xenserver almost every day. In a simple server or small pool there would be very little need to interact with the underlying OS ever, which is the point.
But we have 60+ xenservers and ...
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Some questions about xenserver HA
Q: My last question, on my ISCSI if a hard drive crashes the data are lost if I understand correctly? so I would like to know if you have to do a raid or backups instead? without losing too much space ...
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Differences between VMware and XCP-ng hipervisor
Did I get that right?
Almost.
vSphere does have feature called Fault Tolerance, which enables seamless host-failover through running the guest VM on all (configured) hosts.
vSphere also has a feature ...
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How to import XenServer's ovf/ova/xva format to KVM?
The following is a straight quote from the Red Hat 6 help link, in case it fails. It seems everything is based on using virt-v2v now, and doing an offline xva to kvm isn't so simple. Try the virt-v2v ...
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