After upgrading the kernel to 4.8.13-1-ARCH some of the vmware kernel modules failed to compile: /tmp/modconfig-6BT70S/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c:1592:47: error: ‘NR_ANON_PAGES’ undeclared (first use in this function) /tmp/modconfig-BBuLH6/vmnet-only/netif.c:468:7: error: ‘struct net_device’ has no member named ‘trans_start’; did you mean ‘mem_start’? The fix:
Recently I decided to install virtualbox headless on my server to have something to play around with. Ok… cool… The installation went fine, creation couple of VMs also. Also I wanted to have my DHCP server, controlled by me. So far so good. I installed isc-dhcp-server on host, I configured it just fine… but at … Continue reading virtualbox: Disable DHCP server for host-only network
After many years of using Debian, I decided to give Ubuntu 14.04 a shoot… One of the many problems I have encountered was the installation of VMware. Well, everything went fine but the kernel modules… Ok, long story short, here’s the patch: 205a206 > #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3, 13, 0) 206a208,210 > #else > VNetFilterHookFn(const … Continue reading VMware modules, Ubuntu 14.04 & kernel 3.13
Few days ago I had a task to P2V an old Ubuntu 9.10 machine. The P2V process was very easy and went smooth. The challenge was how to get this VM paravirtualized. After reading on the net how others have done this and what problems they had, I managed to finish my task pretty quick. … Continue reading Paravirtulization with Citrix XenServer 5.5 and Ubuntu 9.10
Unlike previous versions, VMs do not have a visible property in the GUI allowing autostart, which kinda sucks big time. This has been claimed to interfere with High Availability (HA) and produced unexpected results during HA functions. So, what we are going to do?! First approach is to set auto_poweron parameter to true at the pool and VM … Continue reading Autostart VM in free version of XenServer 6.x
With XenServer it is possible to create backups of VMs, even if they are running. The process is as follows: Search for the uuid of the VMs to backup First look for the uuid of the VMs to backup. We don’t want to backup the control domain itself, so we add is-control-domain=false to the vm-list … Continue reading Creating backups of running VMs in XenServer
Introduction Citrix XenServer 5.5, 5.6 and 6.0 are based on CentOS 5.4, but the smartmontools package is not available in the default Citrix repository, so it can’t be installed with yum install smartmontools (as it would be possible with any other CentOS distribution). Installation It is probably safest to use the same versions that were … Continue reading How to install smartmontools on Citrix XenServer
As the title of this documents says, this document describes how to convert a vmware virtual machine to xenserver virtual machine. Although so far this procedure hasn’t fail, please use this procedure on your own risk. 1. Install quemu on the vmware Server or another Linux machine (on debian based distribution use apt-get install qemu-utils, … Continue reading How to convert a vmware linux virtual machine to xenserver virtual machine
This document describes what do you need to do when page of VMware Infrastructure Web Access stuck to Loading… and nothing appears in your browser. 1. Edit /etc/vmware/webAccess/proxy.properties 2. Restart the vmware-mgmt service: