Questions tagged [xen]
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.
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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 "[email protected]"
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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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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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)
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Arch Linux PV Template for Citrix Xenserver
I'm looking for an Arch Linux PV template for Citrix Xenserver 6.2. 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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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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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 this,...
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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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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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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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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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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 '...
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Xen networking - bridging issues
I do love Xen as a product, but sometimes, I really hate it. I'm having some networking issues with one of my Xen clients sitting on a Debian 6 machine VM (so Xen is running inside a Debian 6 virtual ...
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Xen on bare metal, multiple guest OSes — is 3D acceleration on each OS possible?
I have a desktop PC (Athlon 64, 2 cores).
I want:
to run Windows (Vista most likely) with full 3D support for video games and Youtube,
to also run Debian GNU/Linux with 3D support for work,
maybe ...
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Xen domU start up hangs, cannot connect to vbd
I am trying to build a Xen domU on my Arch x64 Linux. I have started dom0 successfully. My Xen kernel version is Linux arch xen 3.2.9-1-ARCH, my domU config file is
name = "arch0"
memory = 256
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How to run a executable in DomU from Dom0?
I'm running Xen on centOS. I've no GUI and I would like to run a executable file on a virtual machine (Domain-U/Guest Domain) from Domain-0. Is it possible to do this?
Some more Information
I'm ...
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Xen VGA passthrough: is it possible to have dual GPU's with single monitor
I hate dual-booting between Windows when I want to play a game and Linux when I need to work. I don't fancy running Linux in a VM and Wine almost never works for me. So, I'm thinking about buying a ...
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How to set up dedicated Hard Disk to a VM?
I'm running CentOS with Xen hypervisor. I've two virtual machines running on it (2 DomU and obviously 1 Dom0). I've two hard disks that I'm trying to dedicate exclusively to each of the DomU. This is ...
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Updating grub2 in a Debian VM
I am running a series of debian server VMs under Xen. I am using pygrub, so the kernels and initrds are within the VM itself.
I would like to continue using the automatic grub.cfg generation ...
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Why is a gratuitous ARP sent out after VM migration?
Is it because the MAC address of the VM changes?
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Virtual machines with failover setup
We have three servers and our plan is to run a number of virtual machines on them in such manner, that if one of the nodes blow up, we can either quickly or seamlessly get a spare running on another ...
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Xen DomU does not have network connectivity
I am trying to install Xen on my Fedora box. Dom0 image has network connectivity. But when I try to create a DomU, it does not have network connectivity.
I want to be able to run in bridged mode. I ...
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AMD bulldozer on XEN server [closed]
I'm planning to setup an home server for testing purposes, therefore I going to
need a lot of power, and I was wondering if Xen Server supports the new
AMD Bulldozer architecture(which has 8 physical ...
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What is the Xen/Citrix equivalent of VMware workstation?
Does Xen/Citrix have a workstation/desktop tool to run virtual machines on top of an existing OS?
My host machine is Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate.
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Xen for a Windows/Linux desktop machine
So here's the deal: For some time, I've been running Windows as my main desktop OS with Gentoo Linux in a VM. I've been thinking that running the systems concurrently in a hypervisor instead of one on ...
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Mount a remote Linux hard drive as another Windows 7 partition during boot?
I would like to mount a hard drive on a remote computer (running on CentOS 6) as a Windows drive so that I can install programs to that drive. The primary hard drive for my Windows machine (which is ...