Due to “Meltdown” I am in the progress of moving our CentOS7-XEN-PV-DomUs to HVM mode. See here on why I need to migrate to HVM This involves installing a bootloader – unnessesary on PV-DomUs, since they use pygrub to emulate the grub/grub2 boot process. What works: Boot the HVM DomU via PXE into a rescue … Read more
Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 10 years ago. Improve this question Context: I’m making a Xen server for my house. It’s going to run something like the following VMs: Windows 7 VM as a … Read more
Closed. This question is opinion-based. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it can be answered with facts and citations by editing this post. Closed 7 years ago. Improve this question I am new to the XenServer (and server virtualization as well). I have setup successfully the … Read more
Can we create and run a virtual machine that uses RAM only or minimized HDD usage. That is same as the working concept as that of live CD. I know It is possible,but still confused,whether it can be implemented. Answer If you have sufficient ram, create a large tmpfs ram drive and put your hard … Read more
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We have two Boxes running XEN XCP. One SR is located on an FreeNAS 9 NFS share. For some reason the NFS share turned read only which is pretty bad for one VM whose VDIs are located on the NFS SR. I have found many hints to change the NFS mount options from soft to … Read more
It’s difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form. For help clarifying this question so that it can be reopened, visit the help center. Closed 9 years ago. Can anyone please let me know that what … Read more
I was told by IBM sales that x3650 doesn’t support windows server 2012. I feel it’s ridiculous as x3650 is their enterprise model, just one level below its highest class x3850 in their system x series. Is it possible that I use centos as host to install XEN and visualize windows server 2012. Can it … Read more
I recently built a Debian “Wheezy” system, which booted via GRUB to a non-framebuffer console, printing Console: colour VGA+ 80×25 during boot. To /etc/default/grub I added GRUB_GFXMODE=1920×1200 GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep giving me the boot messages: vesafb: mode is 1920x1200x16, … fbcon: VESA VGA (fb0) is primary device Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 240×75 fb0: VESA … Read more
Closed. This question needs details or clarity. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Add details and clarify the problem by editing this post. Closed 7 years ago. Improve this question I believe everyone who are working on virtualized environment like Xen has experienced some sort of IO problems which lead … Read more
