XenServer Tools for VMs
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OK How about this question.
is it possible to at least mount the install media to every VM on a host/pool? (automagically of course)
This way all that would have to be done is the installation.
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Meaning, is there a Xen Server command to mount the media to all VM's on a given host?
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@DustinB3403 said:
Meaning, is there a Xen Server command to mount the media to all VM's on a given host?
Should be. OR just take the files and deploy them through whatever Windows deployment method you want.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@DustinB3403 said:
Meaning, is there a Xen Server command to mount the media to all VM's on a given host?
Should be. OR just take the files and deploy them through whatever Windows deployment method you want.
Exactly - if you can mount it in one VM, then copy the files to a network share, then use whatever tools you have, as Scott said.
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PDQ Deploy should do the trick for this!
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This doesn't hit the Linux VM's that we're running.
But is a work around.
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@DustinB3403 said:
This doesn't hit the Linux VM's that we're running.
But is a work around.
Don't they have these built in and update automatically without intervention already?
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They don't update between releases of Xen. An apt-get update might work, haven't tested.
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@DustinB3403 said:
They don't update between releases of Xen. An apt-get update might work, haven't tested.
You aren't doing apt-get updates every few days anyway?
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Several of our Linux VM's are detached from the internet so they'd result in a failure anyways. They're only running intranet websites (media wiki)
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@DustinB3403 said:
Several of our Linux VM's are detached from the internet so they'd result in a failure anyways. They're only running intranet websites (media wiki)
Why would you be detached from getting updates?
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It was imported from a physical box, and we've never bothered to look into it.
Now that you ask, I'm looking into it.
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There weren't any nameservers in /etc/resolve.conf.
Corrected the issue.
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@DustinB3403 said:
It was imported from a physical box, and we've never bothered to look into it.
Now that you ask, I'm looking into it.LOL, that's a bit different than "are disconnected from the Internet."
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@scottalanmiller Yeah... I know..
It was just never bothered with. ..
I'm making a snapshot right now using NAUBackup of my VM's before running the upgrades. As ya never know if something will get broken.
