Saturday, February 20, 2010

Direct Booting a VHD in XenServer


I've run across several instances where I needed to direct boot a VHD in XenServer.  One example was migrating from Hyper-V to XenServer.  Another was updating the network stack, XenTools, and PVS Tools on existing vDisks.  Regardless, the following is the three-step process I took...

Monday, February 1, 2010

Recovering from XenServer Root Drive Full -- Oppsie!


I was trying to import a VHD straight into XenServer the other day. I was moving a VM from HyperV to XenServer 5.5, so instead of starting from scratch, I thought I would simply copy the VHD from HyperV to XS using WinSCP. Following the directions from Trevor Mansell's Citrix Blog

All went well until my XenServer died on me...