#take a snapshot xe vm-snapshot new-name-label= vm= #convert back to a vm xe template-param-set is-a-template=false uuid= #export xe vm-export vm=(newname) filename= #cleanup-snapshot xe vm-uninstall uuid= from: http://serverfault.com/questions/489184/export-xenserver-snapshot-as-file-via-console
https://docs.citrix.com/content/dam/docs/en-us/xenserver/xenserver-7-0/downloads/xenserver-7-0-installation-guide.pdf states: The Control Domain: Also known as ‘Domain0’, or ‘dom0’, the Control Domain is a secure, privileged Linux VM (based on a CentOS 7.2 distribution) that runs the XenServer management toolstack. Besides providing XenServer management functions, the Control Domain also runs the driver stack that provides user created Virtual Read more
download a bunch of the buggers for file in XS*.zip;do foo=`basename -s .zip $file`; unzip $file; bar=`xe patch-upload file-name=${foo}.xsupdate`;xe patch-apply uuid=$bar host-uuid=YOUR_HOST_UUID;done you’ll probably want to add an rm of the zip file and an rm of the xsupdate file (exercise for the reader) This won’t work for XS70E002 and Read more
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 dvd, change back to fully virtualized mode: xe vm-param-set HVM-boot-policy=”” Read more
#get the uuid of the box you want to add the eth1 to xe vm-list #list the interfaces that are associated with that box xe vif-list | grep #get list of network-uuids to pick from (in my case there are only 2) xe vif-list |grep network-uuid| sort -u # make Read more
xe sr-list #gives you a list of sr’s from which to pick a sr-uuid xe vdi-create sr-uuid= name-label= type=user virtual-size= #the above vdi-create outputs a vdi-uuid xe vm-list # gives you a list of vm’s from which to pick a vm-uuid xe vbd-create vm-uuid= vdi-uuid= bootable=false mode=RW type=Disk device= #pick Read more
xe vm-memory-limits-set static-min=512MiB dynamic-min=512MiB dynamic-max=512MiB static-max=512MiB uuid=
xe vm-shutdown vm= xe vbd-list vm-uuid= xe vdi-list uuid= xe vdi-resize uuid= disk-size=xGiB xe vm-start vm= # resize4fs /dev/xvda
I wouldn’t be posting if this wasn’t yet another corner case, where things don’t work as they should… I likely built my xcp-xapi box at a bad time for xcp-xapi and grub2, hopefully this helps others… Situation: installing new virtual kernel on Ubuntu 12.04 domU kernel upgrade crashes royally: Error: Read more