Questions tagged [xen]
Questions related to Xen Project, which creates a hypervisor or Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM). A hypervisor allows one machine to run multiple virtual guest operating systems simultaneously.
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ubuntu 10.04 xen default version
What is the default xen version from ubuntu 10.04?
The idea is that I need an ubuntu version where I can install with no problems xen 3.x.
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How do I set up a xen bridge?
I have been reading various pages on how to set up the network for xen. Unfortunately, none of them actually have a full example config. They clearly show what the xenbr0 section should look like, but ...
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ubuntu 12.10, 12.04 "Unable to find medium containing a live file system"
When installing ubuntu via xen i get
Unable to find medium containing a live file system
i go the iso from http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop
and have been following this tuorial
https://help....
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Ubuntu 12.04 as Xen Dom0 with GUI
i will create a homeserver with Xen who has a graphical user interface (for watching tv, browse the internet etc).
The problem is, if i install xen after my Ubuntu Desktop install, my (dom0) Ubuntu ...
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Creating block devices for openstack deployment using MAAS and juju (nova-volume deployment)
I'm currently trying to get a openstack deployment working by using MAAS with 9 nodes and juju. To do this I found this guide, working with ubuntu 12.04 LTS and followed it as good as I can.
After a ...
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Debootstrap chroot Installation Error
During initial installation (using both Network installation and CD ISO) of Ubuntu Server 12.04.1 LTS (64-bit) as a guest VM on XenServer 6.1 I'm getting this error:
Debootstrap warning
Warning: ...
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Ubuntu Server 12 not spawning a serial ttyS0 when running on Xen
I have this problem on more than one host, so the specific hardware is not an issue.
Bare metal Ubuntu 12 is not creating a login process on the only serial port, in the default configuration. The ...
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Blinking Cursor when Booting into Xen 4.1 with 3.2.0-32-generic Kernel
I've installed Ubuntu 12.04 onto a machine with an AMD Athlon II x4 620 cpu, Gigabyte GA-MA785GMT-UD2H motherboard, and 16 GB of RAM. 12.04 boots fine with the 3.2.0-29-generic and 3.2.0-32-generic ...
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Memory management in Xen
I understand that xen allocates all the physical memory requirement of the guest when started. Also it maintain a shadowing page table (I'm assuming it uses struct page_info to maintain this. Am I ...
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How do I auto-start Xen guests on boot?
I have just upgraded to Ubuntu Server 12.04 and permanently run a Xen guest.
We have migrated to the xl toolstack for Xen (from xm) as suggested which unlike xm does not have support for managed ...
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I want to install Xen to run Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7 at the same time but I can't find any good tutorials
I'm wanting to use Xen Hypervisor to be able to run both Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7 at the same time using virtualization. I can find plenty of XCP tutorials but I'm not looking to install the cloud ...
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Xen keeps making the time wrong on a Windows guest
Just upgraded our Ubuntu Server to 12.04.1 LTS. It runs a Xen VM, which is Windows Server 2008 R2 x64.
We are using the xl toolchain for Xen.
We are in the UK, which is currently GMT+1 (BST).
The ...
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How to limit xen dom0 RAM to a certain amount?
How to limit xen dom0 RAM to a certain amount?
When there was grub1 and a grub.cfg, I knew how, just add to the kernel options there.
Now I have no clue. I have tried setting ...
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Can't boot --> PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE ROM [closed]
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I recently installed Xen (paravirtualization) on my Ubuntu 12.04 machine.
Ubuntu 12.04 worked excellently before, but afterwards, the trouble started.
The laptop crashed every time I ...
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gvnccapture- Installation
I want to capture virtual machine screenshot. I have installed xen hypervisor and I am controlling my virtual machines using libvirt-php API. It has a function:
libvirt_domain_get_screenshot($res);
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Xorg and Virtualbox break after installing Xen
I installed XEN using these instructions
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Xen
Now when I rebooted virtualbox doesnt work, X doesnt work, lightdm doesnt work
How can I set it back to how it was ...
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Download softwares along with dependancy
I am trying to download xen hypervisor so that when ever Internet isn't available I can install it. I am using this:
sudo apt-get download xen-hypervisor-4.1-i386
This will create a .deb file, but ...
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What is the "/dev/xvda1" device?
When I type mount on the root of my Ubuntu system I get the output
/dev/xvdal on / type ext4 (rw,noatime)
I want to know what is the meaning of /dev/xvdal in this?
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Libvirt-php Creating Domain
Could you tell me how to create a new domain?
From PHP API Reference guide: http://libvirt.org/php/api-reference.html
I have seen these functions:
(i) libvirt_image_create($conn, $name, $size, $...
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Bridging: Losing WLAN network connection with 4addr on option - Why?
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For use with my Xen VM, I need to create a virtual network interface (vif) that is bridged to wlan0.
If in /etc/network/interfaces I add
auto xenbr0
iface xenbr0 inet dhcp
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Is there a better paravirtualization solution than Xen?
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I want to run a (para) virtual machine on my Linux console server.
Catch-22 is that the processor does not support VTX/AMDv, so I have to use para virtualization instead of normal/hardware ...
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How do I configure networking when using XEN on 12.04 Server
I'm following this guide, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/XenProposed, and I'd like to setup a static IP address, but I don't know how. I'm using 12.04 Server.
This is the step I'm having trouble ...
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How change what kernel boots Ubuntu XEN VPS?
I have a VPS running Ubuntu server 12.04. A while ago, my host installed an alternative kernel (one of Amazon's EC2 kernels) to fix a boot issue I was having. Now, 2 Ubuntu releases later, this kernel ...
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How to set up bridged networking in Xen?
I have 2 domU virtual machines installed on a 11.10 Oneiric Dom0. My internal network is on the 192.168.1 subnet, and when the domU's start, they get ips on the 192.168.122 subnet. I have attempted to ...
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Why do I get disk I/O errors booting the 3.2 kernel on a xen vps server? [closed]
I have a xen vps, which I just upgraded to the new LTS 12 Precise Pangolin.
However, I see this error on booting:
[ 12.848076] end_request: I/O error, dev xvda, sector 12841
[ 12.848093] ...
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Xen 4.1 + NVidia driver = Unity has no window decorations [closed]
I am running Ubuntu 11.10 with Unity. I installed XEN and booted its kernel. The machine booted normally. However, when I started Unity (3D), there were no window decorations.
I tried Unity 2D and ...
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XEN 4.1 missing from the Grub Menu
I installed Xen with following Commands.
apt-get install xen-hypervisor-4.1-i386
apt-get install xen-utils-4.1
apt-get install xenwatch
apt-get install xen-tools
apt-get install xen-utils-common
apt-...
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How to set Grub to automatically load Xen kernel
How do you configure Grub to automatically use the Xen kernel under Ubuntu 11.10?
No matter what I do, it loads the first menuentry. The only way I can get it to load Xen is to manually select the ...
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Running Xen on Ubuntu-Server 11.10
I'm trying to run Xen on Ubuntu Server 11.10. I tried following the wiki, but it's a bit obsolete, so I tried following a blog post. Everything seemed to be going well, until I ran virsh version, ...
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Dom U Installation on Ubuntu 11.10
I am trying to add a DomU Operating system on Ubuntu 11.10.
I have successfully installed Xen.
Verified with
xm info
virsh-version
which returns this:
Compiled against library: libvir 0.9.2
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How To Boot XEN VMs Using iSCSI?
In simple, I want boot XEN fully virtualized (HVM) guests (both Windows & Linux) using iSCSI drives (i.e. from SAN).
My main purpose of this is to learn about this process. So, how can I do it? ...
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Current protocol for installing Xen with as a Dom0?
I tried to install Xen a few weeks ago with Ubuntu 11.10 as the Dom0. At the time, I encountered too many problems to list here. And an internet search revealed that others were having similar ...
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Need to set up shared storage for Guest virtual machines that are running on a Xen host
My environment:
I am doing these things at home with the purpose of learning about virtualization techniques. My machine have quad core processor that supports Intel-VT and 8GB RAM. XEN is the ...
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Which is best to use on a HEADLESS Server that is going to be use as virtualization host? KVM / XEN / QEMU?
Okay, The main purpose is to learn about virtualization and play around with it. However, I have a problem of determining which is best for a headless server. I want to run several Linux distributions ...
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Can I use Xen virtualization/paravirtualization when my processor doesn't support VTX?
I have a server (4 GB RAM, 64-Bit Intel Atom 330 1.6 GHz processor).
The processor doesn't support any kind of virtualization (I looked up the documentation).
Can I still use Xen to make several ...
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How do I use Xen hypervisor?
I am interested in trying out Xen;
What packages do I need to install?
How do I set up a DomU instance?
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How do I load iptable kernel modules onto a VPS?
I have two servers, using one for prod and one for dev. They are with different providers, and one is running Xen and the other OpenVZ (both running Ubuntu but 8.04 and 10.10 respectively). I've ...
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How can I create the smallest possible mirror of the archive?
I need to create an http url at my laptop to have a Ubuntu installation in my laptop on a Xen environment. This is what the final thing will look like.
The host and client are both going to be my ...
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How to install over http in virtual manager? [closed]
I am having a situation where I can not use a CD or PxE boot or wubi to install.I need to necessarily do an http install of Ubuntu.I am basically trying to create a guest OS in a virtualization setup ...
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I have Ubuntu 9.04 on my Xen VPS - can I upgrade it to 10.10?
I use Ubuntu 9.04 (the most recent version that the VPS host provided) on a Xen VPS. The kernel version seem to be something Xen-specific: 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5xen.
I would like to have the most recent ...
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Which Ubuntu kernel package should I run in a Xen domU
I have a Xen domU provided by a 3rd party vendor, and am running Ubuntu 10.04 on it. Is there a more xen-specific kernel I am running than that provided by the linux-image-2.6.32-21-server package? I ...
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Xen 4.0.1 not booting with device not found error
I'm trying to get Xen 4.0.1 run as dom0 on a fresh/clean install of 10.10 desktop (x64).
Followed the step by step tutorial at http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/Xen4.0
I have the pvops kernel in /...
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