Category Archives: Virtualization

Dell OpenManage, Citrix XEN and iptables

To get your OpenManage installation working on a DELL Server installed with Citrix XEN Server, add following IPTABLES rules: INPUT Table -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp –dport 5666 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp –dport 1311 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp –dport 5666 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp [...]

Installing Debian Lenny VM on Citrix XEN

If you’re trying to install Debian Lenny on a XEN VM you might end up with the following error no matter which debian repository you use to install. can’t download file (/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/20090123lenny1/images/netboot/xen/vmlinuz) Resolution: Smiplest way to install lenny on xenserver5.5 is “install from URL:http://mirrors.cn99.com/debian/”. The above URL works perfectly on Citrix XENSERVER 5.5. Otherwise you [...]

Installing XenServer Tools on Xen Linux VMs

Linux: In general tab of VM in XenCenter, you get an option to install the tools. Another way is to select VM Menu -> Install Xen Server Tools option. Issue: When you try installing XenServer Tools on to Linux VMs you might find that the virtual cd device won’t get mounted and the syslog logs [...]

Enable additional yum repo on Xen Server

By default CentOS base repositories won’t be configured on XenServer. To compile and install nagios/bacula or any other app on server you might end up searching for compiler tools like gcc etc. Here is a simple way to enable base repo and install gcc on your XenServer. yum –enablerepo=base install gcc This will enable the [...]

LxLabs Ligesh commits suicide

A brilliant software engineer, Founder of LxLabs.com, creator of HyperVM – optimized virtualization technology which runs on both Xen and OpenVZ, “Host In a Box” solution LxAdmin/Kloxo for Web hosting companies, server owners, resellers – K.T Ligesh(32) commited suicide last night (8th June,2009) at his residence located in H.S.R Layout, Bangalore. Yesterday night I was [...]

Fix for LxLabs vulnerability announcement

HyperVM/Kloxo users are here by alerted to patch their installations by running the update script by LxLabs team. Multiple security vulnerabilities were discovered in hyperVM and Lxadmin/Kloxo. It is recommended that you update your hyperVM/Kloxo systems to the latest version, as soon as possible. Details of the vulnerabilities will be posted in the coming days [...]