Installing VirtualBox on Ubuntu 18 (same as for modern Fedora Core) with SecureBoot will result in the following error when running the command /sbin/vboxsetup The error message would be something like this: There were problems setting up VirtualBox. To re-start the set-up process, run /sbin/vboxconfig as root. If your system is using EFI Secure Boot…
I was required to auto map a USB DoK to a KVM VM (specific VM, mind you!), as a result of connecting this device to the host. I’ve looked it up on the Internet, and the closest I could get there was this link. It was almost a complete solution, but it had a few…
While searching the web for how to perform PCI-Passthrough on XenServers, we mostly get info about previous versions. Since I have just completed setting up PCI-Passthrough on XenServer version 6. 5 (with recent update 8, just to give you some notion of the exact time frame), I am sharing it here. Hardware: Cisco UCS blades,…
Following some unknown problems, I had recently several XenServer machines (different clusters, different sites and customers, and even different versions) with a VDI-END-of-File issues. It means that while you can start the VM correctly, perform XenMotion to another server you are unable to do any storage-migration task – neither Storage XenMotion, nor VDI copy or…
It is an amazing news to me. I really love XenServer. I think that Citrix were able to make a good use of Linux mechanisms for the purposes of virtualization, without abusing the OS layer (like some of the other virtualization solutions did). The file locations are decent (for example – most parts are located…
Using the GUI, it could be somewhat complex identifying a VM based on its MAC address. There are several solutions on the network using PowerShell, but I will demonstrate it using a simple bash script, below. Save, make executable, and run. Enjoy #!/bin/bash if [ -z “$1” ] then echo “Requires parameter – MAC…
