Virtualisation - Spheron1

June 16, 2014

Citrix XenServer XS62E015 update failing to apply

If you’re using XenServer 6.2, you may have some problems installing the XS62E015 update from CTX140808. You go through the normal update procedure – download XS62E015.zip from the CTX140808 Citrix knowledge base article, extract it and upload the XS62E015.xsupdate file to the pool, then apply UUID c8b9d332-30e4-4e5e-9a2a-8aaae6dee91a to the pool, which promptly fails with: The uploaded patch file is invalid....

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January 11, 2014

XenConvert fails to import OVF to XenServer

I recently ran into a problem when trying to P2V a server with the Citrix XenConvert tool. XenConvert would successfully create the local VHD file for the disk image as well as the OVF file for the server and then copy them to XenServer, however at the vert last hurdle (actually importing the OVF into XenCenter), it would then fail...

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January 2, 2014

OpenVZ reboot loop

I recently encountered a strange reboot loop with a server running OpenVZ. When booting the server, the host would come up and start the process of booting the containers, then at some point during the boot process it would reboot without any errors. I managed to break the reboot loop by quickly SSHing in to the host node whilst it...

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September 8, 2013

Citrix XenServer boot from CD/DVD

If you’re using Paravirtualised (PV) guest Virtual Machines on Citrix XenServer, then it’s not immediately obvious how to boot the guest from a CD/DVD should you need to. In the “Boot Options” tab of the Properties for the Virtual Machine, the “Boot Device” drop down menu will be greyed out, with no obvious way of enabling it. The actual method...

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Category: Virtualisation

Citrix XenServer XS62E015 update failing to apply

XenConvert fails to import OVF to XenServer

OpenVZ reboot loop

Citrix XenServer boot from CD/DVD