Tag Archives: XEN

Dell OpenManage, Citrix XEN and iptables

Posted by TechFiz on July 4, 2010 0 comments

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

Posted by TechFiz on June 26, 2010 0 comments

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

Posted by TechFiz on March 30, 2010 1 comment

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

Posted by TechFiz on March 30, 2010 3 comments

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

Posted by TechFiz on June 9, 2009 9 comments

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 [...]

Fedora-10: Enriched

Posted by TechFiz on January 10, 2009 1 comment

Distro to give a try. What amazed me with this distro is the amount of localization done. New software. It comes with KDE 4.2 which is good. Localization support out of box. You can see Sampada.net Kannada website working out of box in konqueror. Also, don’t forget to check out Virtualization support. It comes with [...]