The Xen® Hypervisor, is an open source virtualization platform that powers the world's largest clouds in production and is the foundation of many commercial products.e
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Ctrl+alt+f1 in xen not working
My host is a Fedora 18 and the guest a CentOS 6.2, I'm using virt-manager as a gui tool to manage the virtual machines, when I send the ctrl+alt+f1 signal, screen shows unreadable liness, the same ...
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Debian DomU on Debian Dom0
I've set up xen on a Debian squeeze DomU and it seems to be working. I followed the this guide
The problem I have is when I try to start the VM and attach the console using
xm create -c ...
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Cannot login to Xen guest pv
I've followed this guide to setup a Xen server and my first PV Guest. On the host system I only have two users, root and benny. I usually work through benny.
After creating a .cfg for my new pv ...
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Can I change the filename of my ssh public/private key pair?
I created a public/private key pair:
ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "me@example.com"
I gave a different key file name than id_rsa since I wanted to create a new separate key from my normal identity.
I gave ...
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Xen startup failed
I've installed Xen4.0 on Debian Sqeeze. When I choosed "Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 and XEN 4.0-amd64" after displaying some messages, it stucked at a black screen. Is there any ...
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converting a Virtualbox image to Xenserver [closed]
How can I use my virtualbox image in a Xenserver 6 or above? I mean is there a way to import the image to Xenserver? Secondly is there anyway we can import vmware image to Xenserver without using ...
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Can't start a XEN VM - VM name already exists
I've setup xen on ubuntu, created a couple of vms, started and stopped them. But now when I try to start one of them I get:
VmError: VM name 'vps.lisignoli.net' already exists
It doesn't show up on ...
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Xen 4.2 Error DomU creation
While installing Xen 4.2 yesterday I got this weird error:
ERROR POST operation failed: xend_post: error from xen daemon: (xend.err 'Error creating domain: pool Pool-0 not activated ')
Host ...
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Xen hypervisor performance penalty
I want to install both a server and a desktop OS on the same machine. I want to install xen hyper-visor and on top of that a windows OS and a Linux server. The idea is to run the server all the time ...
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How to establish fully gpu-accelerated session to localhost xen virtual machine via RDP or VNC?
Done so far: I have setup xen-hypervisor on LinuxMint and successfully passed through my secondary GPU HD6850 to virtual machine running windows 7 Ultimate. The card is successfully recognized from ...
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Fixing Windows 7 BSOD Stop 0x7B in a Xen VM after migration from physical partition to a logical volume
I had been dual booting my laptop ( Sony Vaio-VGNCR26B ), with the two os's being Win7 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ( I think this is referred to 12.04.1 LTS now ). Previously, I had been able to boot the ...
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How to install Xen (XCP-XAPI) on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server?
How to install Xen (XCP-XAPI) on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server in a cross platform approach (Windows and Linux users)? I need a complete and comprehensive guide on the subject covering all steps necessary ...
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Virtualizing nVidia GPU in Citrix XenServer with Ubuntu VM
At work we've got a host machine running Citrix XenServer 6.1 and we're planning on getting an nVidia Tesla M2070Q card for it so we can run some CUDA code.
I'm wondering if anyone has ever done this ...
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PXE boot with VMware like Xen
Citrix XenServer has a really nice feature where, when creating a new virtual machine, you can manually set PXE options, and you don't need to have a dedicated machine for holding PXE boot loaders and ...
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Does Xen Support VMs with multiple monitors?
In short, I would like to know if Xen VMs support multiple monitors. I'm interested in setting up a linux box that will achieve the following:
1 VM that utilizes a triple-monitor display (Linux)
1 ...
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Arch Linux PV Template for Citrix Xenserver
I'm looking for an Arch Linux PV template for Citrix Xenserver 6.1. The problem is that my infrastructure doesn't support HVM, so the usual route of bare install and then configure isn't an option ...
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enable netfront device model support in xen pv 3.0 kernel
I'm trying to run a custom linux on xen pv domu. I have compiled the kernel with pvops and I am able to boot up the system on xen pv. Now in order to get networking running, I have to select PCNET in ...
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Local desktop virtualization with XEN / XCP
From what I gathered it is possible to use XCP or XEN for local desktop virtualization so that local machine runs both host (type 1 hypervisor) and guest.
I'd like to use local machine (laptop), XEN ...
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XEN 4.1.3 on OpenSuSE 12.2 not seeing keyboard of Dell XPS 1330
The title really says it all. When booting the XEN Hypervisor kernel, everything works flawlessly, except that the keyboard is not seen at all.
If I plug a USB keyboard, it is recognized and I can ...
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Setting up a NFS in Xen: dom0 or domU
I need access to a couple of data drives I have on my test Xen box (Debian Wheezy/Unstable). I am going to provide access to a couple of the physical drives within it to all or most of the domu's on ...
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KVM guest displaying on an attatched monitor
I have a Debian Squeeze KVM hypervisor running a server guest VM and a Desktop guest OS VM. Is it possible for the Desktop guest to send it's display to monitor directly attatched to the computer?
An ...
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Grub2 + Xen: How to solve “Can't find hypervisor information in sysfs”
I am trying to solve the "Can't find hypervisor information in sysfs" problem when invoking "xm". I have found in some sites that the solution is to rename *10_linux* into *50_linux*, however if I do ...
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How to set up virtual windows so it shares graphic card via IOMMU?
I'd like to continue using Linux as my desktop system. But from time to time I'd like to do some gaming. I know that I can use Wine and PlayOnLinux stuff, but it doesn't always work. I also know, that ...
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XEN dom0 network Bridge has no connection to domU's
I am using Debian wheezy with XEN 4.1. I have two network bridges xenbr0 and xenbr1.
xenbr0 is linked to the real-eth0-nic so the domU's can talk to the outside world, which worked fine.
xenbr1 was ...
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Windows 8 on Xen Citrix Server
I want to install a windows 8 pro VM on a Xen Citrix server,
So I'm looking for an iso file with licence for 64bit Windows8 Pro, but all I can find from Microsoft's website is the upgrade from ...
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“Snapping” when in RDP
I am using mstsc.exe version 6.0 (Remote Desktop non-Metro version) from an XP machine and cannot get Windows 8 in a Xen VM snapping to work. I can drag a metro app window to the left or right, but ...
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Cloud Backup Providers for Xen Hypervisor [closed]
Using the XCP toolset on the server side, are any good solutions to backup up each server to the cloud (Approximately 1TB each). What I am looking for is the ability to do a bare metal backup in case ...
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Xen VGA Passthrough: integrated GPU for dom0 and PCI card for win guest?
I know you need at least two graphics cards for VGA passthrough... but I'm worried the integrated graphics card will get disabled once I plug in the PCI card. could xen (xcp) override this default ...
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Xen 4.2 on CentOs 6.3 : can't compile a libvirt 0.9.10 xen-activated?
I followed that tutorial for Xen 4.2 on CentOs 6.3. http://www.howtoforge.com/virtualization-with-xen-on-centos-6.3-x86_64-paravirtualization-and-hardware-virtualization
When building a new libvirt ...
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Xen 4.1.2 error trying to set up remus
When I attempt to set up remus between two machines I get an error in the remus log file, I cant understand why it occurs, I have the same vms running on both systems, so attempted replication ...
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How to reset xen hyperviser clock
I have a low cost server running Debian Squeeze stable, using the Xen hyperviser. After a very long uptime the clocks of the unprivileged domains will deviate. Restarting the domains will not fix the ...
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Expand ZFS pool after adding space in XenCenter
I have a FreeBSD VM that is running in XenCenter. I accidentally set it up with a ZFS file system (doesn't really matter, except that I dont know much about ZFS).
I had initialized the VM with 10GB, ...
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Failure to boot Xen 4.1.2 kernel 2.6.32.40 with Ubuntu 10.04.4
After successful creation of the Xen kernel and entry into grub, whenever I try and boot into the Xen kernel I receive the following error:
Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems:
- Boot ...
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Xen Server: Missing Physical CPU
One of our Xen server is built on HP blade. Which is having 2 Quad core Physical CPU.
On the Xen it is showing only one CPU, it should show 8 CPUs.
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
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GRUB can't boot xen 4.2 kernel
I've just built and installed the release candidate of xen 4.2 (which seemed to go fine) along with all dependencies required on debian-squeeze, and for the life of my I can't get grub to boot the xen ...
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DomU debian based OS failed to boot on XenServer and Xen
I see the following on the console while boot up. The OS is debian squeeze based. The following is the error on HVM.
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root (hd0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, using whole disk
kernel ...
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Virtual machine interaction (not management) from host command line- possible?
I have a Virtual Machine running Linux. Is there any way for me to connect to a terminal on the VM OS from the host? For instance, AWS allows you to just ssh into virtualized OSes. How could I ...
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Home NAS and virtualization [closed]
I plan on building a home server which will do NAS as its main purpose, using the Supermicro Superserver 6027R-3RF4+ (for starters with 1 CPU - Xeon E5-2620 + 4x16GB ECC Registered RAM). I know its ...
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Building a virtual machine structure with Xen or VMware on a normal pc
I have a Acer Expire X3200 (AMD 64 Quad). Consider the pc completely empty.
Is it possible to make this machine run a few virtual machines and how?
By installing Debian with Xen?
By installing ...
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Is it possible to power off a PCIe video card/slot? (eg. hot-plug)
I'm looking at building a system that supports VT-d so I can pass through a high powered loud video card to a Xen/KVM/whatever VM (host will be Linux based). However, when I'm not using the VM I want ...
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Disable my nVidia video card driver in Linux
I'm trying to passthrough my nv video card to my domU, but I could not bind my video card to the pciback driver
I only have one video card with the pci number 0000:03:00.0, so I used the following ...
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Combining multiple linux boxes and create VMs out of it
I am running on Ubuntu. I have a set of linux machines (5 to 6 machines). Which I want to combine as a single resource pool and on demand create multiple virtual instances of machines out of it.
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How to get the ip address of an VM in Xen without logging in?
I'm using xen virtualization with a dhcp server. Whenever I create a new VM an ipaddress is assigned by the dhcp server. I'm working remotely and have to use only command line, so logging into the VMs ...
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Is there any way to run 64bit Virtual Machine on 64bit processor without hardware virtualization (amd-v, vt-x)?
We have a 64bit virtual machine (CentOS) that we'd like to run on 64bit host-machine (may be running under any OS), but that host-machine doesn't support hardware virtualization, which, you know, ...
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How to tell if I am on a XEN or KVM Server?
Is there a way to tell if I am on a XEN or KVM linux server? Reason I asked is nothing is on top yet I am seeing load averages high well after I do tasks and I am getting hangs/spikes when I do simple ...
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dedicated server virtualization, xen or openvz? [closed]
I am putting a new server in a datacenter for company use and my company website. I use a lot of VPS accounts and in that world the choices are xen or openvz. I will be using virtualization on my ...
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How to clone Windows 7 into a image file?
I want to clone my Windows 7 system into a image file and boot it from my Xen vm. Windows 7 has a boot partition and a system partition. I know there are plenty of tools in Linux that can clone a ...
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XEN killed my laptop
I need to setup a XEN-Server in order to create a virtualized environment. I have successfully done this in a desktop pc but now when I installed the same in my Dell Inspiron laptop, the installation ...
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“sh: /usr/sbin/xenstored: not found” - But it's there?
What would cause running the file /usr/sbin/xenstored to print
sh: /usr/sbin/xenstored: not found
However, the file /usr/sbin/xenstored is there and is not a symbolic link.
Actually I should be ...
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Xen - virt-install fails
I am trying to setup a Xen DomU using virt-install --prompt
After answering the usual questions the installation image is being downloaded from the internet.
Then after 'Creating storage file' and ...
