Citrix Systems 6.2.0 instruction

Citrix XenServer ® 6.2.0 Virtual Machine User's Guide

Published Tuesday, 25 June 2013

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Citrix Systems manual Citrix XenServer 6.2.0 Virtual Machine Users Guide

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Citrix XenServer 6.2.0 Virtual Machine Users Guide Trademarks Contents VM Migration with XenMotion and Storage XenMotion Importing the Demo Linux Virtual Appliance Windows VM Release Notes Setting Up a Red Hat Installation Server Overview About this DocumentXenServer Documentation Creating VMs Virtual MachinesOther Methods of VM Creation Importing an Exported VM XenServer ToolsPage Supported Guests, Virtual Memory, and Disk Size Limits Supported Guests and Allocating ResourcesOperating System Minimum Maximum Minimum Disk Space 4GB 8GB Operating System Experimental Guests XenServer Product Family Virtual Device Support Deprecated GuestsVirtual device Linux VMs Windows VMs VM Block Devices Creating Windows VMs Basic Procedure for Creating a Windows VMAvailable Windows Templates Template Name Description Attaching an ISO Image Library Using XenCenter to Create a VMTo create a Windows 7 32-bit VM Page Installing a Windows VM from an ISO Repository Using the CLI Using the CLI to Create a Windows VM Creating Linux VMs Distribution Vendor Install From Network From CD Repository Creating a Linux VM by Installing from a Physical CD/DVD Network Installation Notes Creating a Linux VM by Installing From an ISO Image To install Debian using a preseed file Advanced Operating System Boot ParametersTo install Rhel Using a Kickstart File To install the guest agent Installing the Linux Guest Agent Linux Distribution Installation Notes Additional Installation Notes for Linux Distributions Additional Debian Notes Preparing to Clone a Linux VMMachine Name IP addressPage XenMotion and Storage XenMotion VM Migration with XenMotion and Storage XenMotionXenMotion Storage XenMotion Live VDI Migration Migrating a VM using XenCenterLimitations and Caveats To Move Virtual Disks Updating VMs To uninstall the XenServer ToolsUpdating Windows Operating Systems Updating XenServer Tools for Windows VMsPage VApps Creating a vApp using XenCenterManaging vApps in XenCenter Creating vApps Deleting vApps using XenCenter Start and shutdown vApps using XenCenterDeleting vApps To start a vApp To export a vApp Importing and Exporting vAppsTo import a vApp Persist XenDesktop Private Desktop Mode VM Boot BehaviorReset XenDesktop Shared Desktop Mode Advanced Notes for Virtual Machines Installdir/xensetup.exe /S /norestart Connecting to a Windows VM Using Remote Desktop Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service VSS providerTo enable the Windows XenServer VSS provider To Enable Remote Desktop on a Windows VM Time Handling in Linux VMs Time Handling in Windows VMs To set individual Linux VMs to maintain independent times Installing a VM from Reseller Option Kit BIOS-locked MediaGuest OS Dependent wallclock Independent wallclock Using XenCenter Preparing for Cloning a Windows VM Using VSSUsing the CLI Cloning Windows VMs Assigning a GPU to a Windows VM for Use with XenDesktop To assign a GPU to a Windows VM using xe CLI To assign a GPU to a Windows VM using XenCenterTo detach a Windows VM from a GPU using XenCenter To detach a Windows VM from a GPU using the xe CLI Detach the GPU from the VM by entering the following Importing the Demo Linux Virtual Appliance To Import the Demo Linux Virtual Appliance Using XenCenterUseful Tests Page Supported Formats Importing and Exporting VMsFormat Description Attribute Description Open Virtualization Format OVF and OVA XVA Format Disk Image Formats VHD and Vmdk XVA Version 1 Format Operating System Fixup Importing VMs Transfer VMTo use the RawVDI transfer protocol Importing VMs from OVF/OVA To Import VMs from OVF/OVA using XenCenterPage Importing Disk Images To Import VMs from a Disk Image using XenCenter Importing VMs from XVA To Import VMs from XVA Files VM using XenCenter Exporting VMs To Import a VM from XVA using the xe CLIExporting VMs as OVF/OVA To Export VMs as OVF/OVA using XenCenter Exporting VMs as XVA To Export VMs as XVA Files using XenCenter To Export VMs as XVA Files using the xe CLI Release Notes Appendix A. Windows VM Release Notes Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.5 to Appendix B. Linux VM Release Notes Preparing a Rhel 4.5 to 4.8 guest for cloning Red Hat Enterprise Linux Oracle Enterprise Linux CentOSSuse Enterprise Linux 10 SP1 Suse Enterprise Linux 10 SP3 Ubuntu Creating an ISO on a Linux computer Appendix C. Creating ISO ImagesOn a Windows computer Enabling a Graphical Console on Debian Squeeze VMs Appendix D. Enabling VNC for Linux VMs Configuring GDM to use VNC Determining the Location of your VNC Configuration File VNC Screen Resolution Firewall Settings Create the xinetd.d file, /etc/xinetd.d/vnc-server-stream Enabling VNC for RHEL, CentOS, or OEL 6.x VMs Enabling Remote Administration Setting up SLES-based VMs for VNCModifying the xinetd Configuration Checking for a VNC Server To Open the VNC Port on Sles 10.x VMs Firewall To Open the VNC Port on Sles 11.x VMs Firewall Checking Runlevels Copying Installation Media Appendix E. Setting Up a Red Hat Installation ServerEnable Remote Access NFS Http FTP To enable saving of Linux VM crash dumps Appendix F. Troubleshooting VM ProblemsVM Crashes Controlling Linux VM Crashdump Behaviour Troubleshooting Boot Problems on Linux VMs