Tag: Xen

Citrix XenServer XS62E015 update failing to apply

If you’re using XenServer 6.2, you may have some problems installing the XS62E015 update from CTX140808. You go through the normal update procedure – download XS62E015.zip from the CTX140808 Citrix knowledge base article, extract it and upload the XS62E015.xsupdate file to the pool, then apply UUID c8b9d332-30e4-4e5e-9a2a-8aaae6dee91a to the pool, which promptly fails with: The uploaded patch file is invalid....

Intel VT Virtualisation Technology on Dell PowerEdge servers

Somewhat annoyingly, Dell seem to like to disable Intel’s VT (Virtualisation Technology, sometimes called VMX) in the BIOS on their Dell PowerEdge servers, which means that you can’t use the Xen hypervisor to virtualise Microsoft Windows Server without changing this setting, which requires a reboot of the server to take effect. You can use omreport from the Dell OpenManage Server...