(Disclaimer: I am by no means an expert with XenServer. So please don’t take anything you read here for granted. It’s my own experience and what I found in documentation and online.) Switching a XenServer Linux VM from hardware assisted virtualization to paravirtualization nowadays is quite simple, since most Linux distributions already come with a … Continue reading Switching a XenServer VM from HVM to PVM
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Switching a XenServer VM from PVM back to HVM
(Disclaimer: I am by no means an expert with XenServer. So please don’t take anything you read here for granted. It’s my own experience and what I found in documentation and online.) If switching a XenServer Linux VM to paravirtualization fails, you usually end up with a non booting VM which is quite annoying. Switching … Continue reading Switching a XenServer VM from PVM back to HVM
How to shrink a Windows VM in XenServer
Apparently shrinking a Windows VM (actually any kind of VM) cannot be done with XenServer and XenCenter. You need to create an image of the original volume to a smaller virtual disk in order to do that. On top of that, the tool that used to work fine for this, Citrix XenConvert, has been deprecated … Continue reading How to shrink a Windows VM in XenServer
Deleting a XenServer Storage Repository
(Disclaimer: I am by no means an expert with XenServer. So please don’t take anything you read here for granted. It’s my own experience and what I found in documentation and online.) In my previous post, I described how to add a Storage Repository to a XenServer using the xe command line tool. Now, since … Continue reading Deleting a XenServer Storage Repository
Installing XenServer updates via XenCenter fails
(Disclaimer: I am by no means an expert with XenServer. So please don't take anything you read here for granted. It's my own experience and what I found in documentation and online.) There is at least one reason why installing updates for XenServer via XenCenter may fail (with unhelpful error messages of course): You haven't … Continue reading Installing XenServer updates via XenCenter fails