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Migrating Xen virtual machines to KVM

If you're running virtual environments on Linux, have you recently migrated from Xen to KVM (kernel-based virtual machines)? If so, what issues/problems did you encounter -- if any -- and how did you solve them?

View Answer   |  Aug 25 2009  2:43 PM GMT
Xen, XenServer, KVM
asked by JennyMack

  3255 pts.

what is XEN live migration

How live migration carried out under Xen implementation

View Answer   |  Jun 30 2009  3:28 PM GMT
Xen, Xen Live Migration, Live Migration
asked by Hcf

  5 pts.

Xen Desktop Agent on Windows 7

I tried installing the Xen desktop agent on the Windows 7 beta and get the message "OS not supported" Is there a fix for this. haven't seen anything from citrix yet. This is a user submitted question

View Answer   |  Apr 8 2009  1:32 PM GMT
Desktop virtualization, Xen Desktop Agent, Xen
asked by ITKE

  10180 pts.

Virtualization Xen and VMware combined

Arre there ways to combine VMW and Xen on single x86 socket multicore processor, whereby Xen and VMW are assigned for eg 2 cores each? Will this be feasible with Nehalm having multiple memory buses?

View Answer   |  Feb 13 2009  9:56 AM GMT
VMware, Xen, Intel Core i7
asked by Vanis

  35 pts.

Saving power in a Xen environment

I want to have two hosts that are running a Xen hypervisor, with each having three servers running inside as guests. I want to be able to migrate one or two of the guest servers from one host to another in case of a lack of power (an electricity change to a generator for instance), and then turn...

Answer Question   |  Jan 8 2009  7:35 PM GMT
Xen, Virtualization, Virtual Machines
asked by SearchServerVirtualization ATE

  385 pts.

restore VM not enough space....

made a .xva file from a W2k8 server with a 2TB storage connection and the VM itself is positioned on a 500Gb storage. After rebuilding the Xen environment the 2Tb is available but of course empty. Restoring 4 other W2k8 VM's went fine. But now on this one the system says: Importing VM.... the...

Answer Question   |  Jan 7 2009  2:45 PM GMT
Virtual Machines, Windows Server 2008, Xen
asked by Hdekker

  10 pts.

Xen guest from one host to another migration error message

I get this error when attempting to perform the migration of a Xen domain U guest from one host to another the migration command files as follows: # xm migrate 7 192.168.2.21 -l Error: can't connect: No route to host Usage: xm migrate <Domain> <Host>

Answer Question   |  Nov 17 2008  8:01 PM GMT
Xen, Xen domain U, Domain U
asked by ITKE

  10180 pts.

Virtualization Product Choices

I will be setting up my new system in a couple of weeks. I'll be running CentOS 5 on a quad core AMD Opteron. I'm going to run Windows XP as a guest OS, and possibly 1 or more Linux distros. Does anyone have any suggestions? I am currently considering Xen or Virtualbox, leaning towards Xen.

View Answer   |  Jul 24 2008  5:54 PM GMT
Windows XP, Linux Distributions, AMD
asked by Chunter

  110 pts.

Xen 4.1 upgrade and backup problems

We have one physical server running Xen 4.0 with 3 virtual machines (VMs): 1st VM - Appserver 1 drive capacity 50GB and used space 25GB 2nd VM - PDC 2 drives c: 20GB used out of 50GB , E: 60GB out of 200GB 3rd VM - SQLserver 2 drives c: 30GB used out of 50GB , E: 80GB out of 150GB I wanted to...

Answer Question   |  Jul 24 2008  4:30 PM GMT
Backup & recovery, Virtual Machines, Xen
asked by SearchServerVirtualization ATE

  385 pts.

NAS or SAN?

We have a need to run numerous virtual servers from a NAS/SAN. The questions is, which should we choose? THe product we support (Citrix XenServer) supports either for backend virtual system storage and can run VM's from either. Currently, our needs are small. We have about 10 virtual servers that...

View Answer   |  Mar 3 2008  6:44 PM GMT
NFS, NAS, SAN
asked by Isdpcman

  20 pts.

Which virtualization product is the best?

Hi, anybody has any idea which virtualization product is the best? VMware. Xen. I am still confiusing with each one, anybody has experience in one of them. Do recomend us to wait until Microsoft Windows 2008 birth. Many thanks. Eyad.

View Answer   |  Feb 18 2008  6:35 PM GMT
Virtualization, VMware, Xen
asked by Windows System

  5 pts.

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