XEN is a hypervisor based virtualization technique.
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How do I configure Xen GPU passthrough for my AMD Radeon GPU?
I have an Ubuntu Server 12.10 setup with Xen 4.2.0 installed (compiled from source) and an AMD Radeon 7750 GPU. My Xen installation appears to be working and I can create virtual machines for example.
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ext3 root filesystems goes read-only with aborted journal even after repairs
Short version: ext3 root filesystem on rackspace (xen) VM detects aborted journal on boot and mounts read-only. I've attempted to repair this from a rescue environment with tune2fs and e2fsck as ...
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Create a CentOS Guest img over Ubuntu
I want to create a basic CentOS 5.8 system from scratch.
for now i build my own img for Ubuntu Guest (debootstrap), my host is a Ubuntu 12.04.1LTS but I don't know how to make for a CentOS, is ...
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BUG: soft lockup - CPU# stuck for x seconds
I've seen a few bug reports and questions (on stackexchange and elsewhere) regarding a nagging "BUG: soft lockup - CPU#<n> stuck for <dt>s!". So far, I haven't found any clue as to what ...
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no network on domU in network-bridge configuration for Xen-4.0
I created a very standard Xen-4.0 domU with network-bridge configuration. However, no packets get out from the virtual machine to the network which bridge (peth0) is attached to. From guest I can ping ...
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XEN Bootloader or Kernel error bootloader isn't executable / cannot locate kernel when using XM create
I am currently using Xen for installing VM guests however whenever we run
xm create -c /etc/xen/ks.test.cfg
we get;
Using config file "/etc/xen/ks.test.cfg".
Error: Bootloader isn't executable
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PCI passthrough with Xen
I am trying to run Windows XP in a Xen DomU virtual machine with a PCIe device, for which there are no Linux drivers, being passed through from a Debian Squeeze Dom0. My hardware supports ...
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fedora 14 xen virtual machine does not detect network
I'm trying to create a para-virt Fedora 14 xen vm on a host running CentOS 5.5. The VM appears to initially install correctly (the installer finds eth0 and can access the installation media). But when ...
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Scrambled Xen Console on dom0
I installed Xen using the recommended procedure on Ubuntu's site using motherboard Supermicro X7SBL-LN2 and Ubuntu 13.04 amd64. After the installing it and rebooting my console looks like this: ...
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Use dd to backup disk image within an OpenVZ container
I want to use dd to backup the disk of an OpenVZ VPS in addition to traditional cold tar backups. Because I may need to migrate to a different VPS provider.
From end user point of view, OpenVZ ...
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Xen is unable to use URL's to install CentOS
I can't seem to use URL's when using the netinstall for CentOS, I'm installing CentOS on a Xen VPS.
I keep getting this error in the terminal window, when I use the URL:
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Crash analysis and 4 levels of page table
I am having xen 3.4.2 running with 15 vm (pv+hvm) on a host with 256 Gb RAM and 96 core CPU.
But recently my host crashed on debug log its showing
translating ffff83183fcb0000 with CR3 100ae42000 ...
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lshw takes to much time in the when running it the Domain-0 of a Xen server
I have a server running Debian 6 with Xen. I logged in its Domain-0 and I run lshw short but it takes to much time. More than 10 minutes. So I kill the process. The server is OK, but I don't know why ...
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How to assign an IP to a Xen VM using the xm config files?
I was just wondering how to assign an IP to a Xen VM using the xm config files?
Here is my config file currently, I don't think this is how I should be assigning IP's?
name = "test.ks"
builder = ...
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Error when starting blender: 48000hz instead of 41000hz
I'm try to install blender in my Xen guest (Debian Wheezy), and when I try to start the render blender file via command line, the console shows this:
$blender -b CarPark.blend
AL lib: ...
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Unable to boot Xen 4.1.3 with kernel image shared through cifs
I've configured xen 4.1.3 with CentOS 6.3 and kernel version 3.5.3. I've vm images to my network shares over cifs. cifs is mounted and i can access it from my Dom0 but when try to boot vm using the ...
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Troubleshooting Bug: Soft Lockup
We're having some trouble here with "soft lockup"s in our /var/log/syslog. The system seems to freeze for 10-70 seconds, then comes back. This is affecting web serving and other key processes. It ...
