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XenServer is the virtualization platform Citrix has built around the Xen Hypervisor.

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GRE Mesh to GRE Star in open virtual switch

i have 3 kvm hosts running open vswitch with many virtual machines. These vms are on two separate tenants and GRE tunnel carries private traffic between these 3 hosts. But is there a better way to do GRE tunneling,because currently these GRE tunnels…
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Installing CentOS 6.4 on Xen 6.0: Install hangs on "Switching to clocksource hyperv_clocksource"

When I tried to install CentOS 6.4 on a Citrix XenServer 6.0, after I hit install, the installation hangs at "Switching to clocksource hyperv_clocksource" I have installed CentOS 6.0 without this issue on the same server. Any suggestions is much…
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How to uninstall all Citrix driver from Windows Server 2008 R2 Guest if BSOD on safe mode?

I use Citrix XenServer 5.5 and on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Guest there is installed Xentools 5.5, for a year all works well. After a restart we get a BSOD with Stop Code 7B, it is a problem with the Citrix pv-driver I think, but how can I delete…
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Copy an Amazon EC2 Instance to use locally

Ok, so we have a spare server I have installed Debian Wheezy on, and setup Xen on for virtual machines. It has better performance than all our ec2 instances combined, and will cost less to run (for a few various reasons) I would like to get the EC2…
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How to import XenServer's ovf/ova/xva format to KVM?

Now I'm considering migrate from Xen to KVM. I exported some exist virtual machines from Xen in the formats ovf and xva. How could I import them into KVM? As there're only a few of virtual machines, I would accept a manual way.
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xen Dom0 network setup on ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS

I read a lot of tutorials (or at least try to be) but none is able to explain well how to configure networks for xen host. my Dom0 has two interfaces eth0 (real interfaces) and virbr0 (I guess was created by bridge-utils ) eth0 192.168.1.254 #is…
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Thecus/QNAP NAS for Virtualization iSCSI?

I'm looking for a low-cost NAS/SAN/iSCSI target shelf to host VM's in a production real-world environment. Will the Thecus N8800 or the QNAP TS-809U provide sufficient enough performance to host multiple Virtual Machines? (XenServer) Or am I better…
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Clustered file systems as XenServer storage

I want to use shared storage for a XenServer environment with 4 host servers which are running various VMs under XenServer. Planning to use 2 extra servers as storage with high availability of some sort. While the most obvious solution is iSCSI SAN…
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Xenserver: One VM crashed, xe not reacting any more

We are running a xenserver. One VM crashed, the other VMs seem to run normally. But now we can not restart this VM any more. Not even xe-toolstack-restart is showing any reaction any more. We do not want to do a hard-reset of the full system. How…
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xenserver PV mode -- lvm problems?

So, I'm trying to convert some domU's I have to use PV mode. xe-edit-bootloader -u ... -p 2 Finds the menu.lst no problem. The grub, boot, and root partitions are 1, 2, and 3, respectively. I flagged boot and root as bootable, just to be…
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(VM)Win Server 2008 R2 is only showing one CPU but has 4 allocated

Xen Server 5.6 Sp2 The VM is Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard 4 vCPUs have been allocated The machine has been rebooted and has correct version of xen tools installed. In the device manager I see 4 cpus but in the task manager I only see one. In the…
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Resize base XenServer 6.0 partition

I've extended my hardware RAID device on LSI MegaRAID controller by adding disks to the array. While making Linux notice the block device size change was not straight forward, I've found that one can rescan the device (using echo y >…
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XenServer 6.0 Advanced - Is it an add-on or part of initial install?

I'm looking to purchase a new dedicated server and have XenServer 6.0 installed. There is an option to include XenServer 6.0 Advanced which has some additional features. However we don't need those additional features for a few months. Is…
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Citrix XenApp Fundamentals

I have a problem with a new install of a XenApp Citrix server. Everything was working fine, but I was setting up Citrix Access Gateway and single sign in. Now, on the main server I am getting an error: The licenses required by this edition of Citrix…
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XP vm disk benchmark on xenserver 5.6

While benchmarking the disk on a Windows XP VM under XenServer 5.6 I get a peak for a couple of seconds to ~200 MB/s before it drops back to an average of 30 MB/s. Is this normal? My configuration is: HP blade server BL460 with 1 quad-core Intel…
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