I recently had a few CentOS machines that were migrated from XenServer to VMWare. There was a curious problem where the /dev/cdrom would not exist to be mounted when the VMWare tools image was mounted to the VM. When attempting to mount the CDROM’s usual location, I would get the error “mount: you must specify […]
If you are running Ubuntu on XenServer, you are probably aware that you are running this thing with the paravirtualized modified kernel. Yesterday I ran into this issue where the kernel update caused the server not to boot any more. Upon logging into the XenServer, i got this error: Error: Starting VM – Using to […]
I have been using XenServer now for a few years. I was using Hyper-V and VMware, but I inherited a bunch of VMs on a few XenServer hosts and decided I would just work with Xen and see how I like it. I’ve gained a love/hate relationship with XenServer. But for the love, I can […]
