add iso partition to xenserver

link: https://adamscheller.com/systems-administration/xenserver-local-iso-storage-new-partition/ for posterity… figure out the name of the volume group (something like name-uuid) pvscan   create the new volume lvcreate -L 150G -n ISOs name-uuid   find the volume you just created lvscan |grep ISO   create the filesystem Read more

para – virtualize to install from iso

http://www.xenlens.com/boot-a-guest-vm-from-cd-or-dvd-in-xenserver/ copied for posterity In order to boot from cd or dvd you need to change the guest virtualization type from HVM (fully virtualized) to PV (paravirtualized). xe vm-param-set HVM-boot-policy=”BIOS order” uuid=[uuid of your vm] After you have booted from Read more

animated gif from imagemagick

put the list of files into a file ls -1 foo*.jpg > /var/tmp/jpglist rename randomly named files in numerical order cat /var/tmp/jpglist|perl -e’$i=1;while ($name=) { chomp $name;$new=”week” . $i . “.jpg”;system (“cp $name $new”);;$i++};’ resize all 13 files named week[number].jpg, Read more