I have had a stressed time, and had no time to actually write down anything here. This is pity, since I have been doing so many things worth sharing. I will start with a small one now – how to convert a physical machine into Xen-based VM. I assume you know the drill of how…
On RHEL-type of systems, with virt-manager (libvirt), you can make use of virt-manager to easy your life. I, for myself, prefer to work with ‘xm‘ tools, but for the initial install, virt-manager is the quickest and most simple available tool. To install a new Linux VM, all you need to follow this flow Create an…
It has been long since I had the time to write here. I have recently been involved more and more with XenServer virtualization, as you might see in the blogs, and following a solution to a rather common problem, I have decided to post it here. The problem: When attempting to boot a Linux VM…
It has been a long while, I know. I was busy with life, work and everything around it. Not much worth mentioning. This, however, is something else. I have discovered an issue with Citrix XenServer 5.0 (probably the case with 5.5, but I have other issues with that release) using NetApp through NetApp API SR…
XenServer is a wonderful tool. One of the better parts of it is its powerful scripting language, powered by the ‘xe’ command. In order to capture a mass of snapshots, you can either do it manually from the GUI, or scripted. The script supplied below will include shell functions to capture Quiesce snapshots, and it…
This sounds weird, but I have witnessed it today, and had to work rather hard to figure the cause of the problem. When using ” Intel Corporation 82575EB Gigabit Network Connection (rev 02)” (as lspci reports), TCP offload causes problems. Symptoms: The host can communicate with the guest flawlessly (including HTTP get for larger than…
