Results for: Installing Ubuntu on XenServer
Virtual Hypervisor
This blog demonstrates how to perform a scripted install of a XenServer inside a XenServer. This gives a flexibile virtual environment for development or experimenting with cloud setups. The official way of automating XenServer installation, is to use PXE boot. This guide assumes that you don't have DHCP/PXE services running on your isolated network, so it will re-master the XenServer install media, thus, the only ...
My Personal Hypervisor
Citrix XenClient Virtualization is pervasive, and the abstraction that results is amazing. I've been using XenServer for a few years now to spin up datacenter and lab VM's. Adding XenApp for applications and XenDesktop for virtual desktops (VDI) is another layer of amazing. Can it get any better? It can, add XenClient. Citrix XenClient is a high-performance, bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the client ...
Shared Storage for small XenServer Pools
Introduction Over the last year, a number of people have asked me for ideas regarding how to create a pool of 2 (or so) XenServers without having to spend thousands of pounds on shared storage. The simplistic answer is that you don't need any shared storage in order to create a XenServer Pool, but without it you have export and re-import VMs if you want to "load ...
Installing Ubuntu on XenServer
I thought I'd kick off my Citrix blog with a question I get pretty often from Linux enthusiasts: how to install unsupported Linux distributions on XenServer 4.1. The most common solution people find is to use the "Other Install Media" template, insert the distribution installation CD, and find that the mouse cursor doesn't work when they boot into X11. The reason for this is that ...