XenTools installation error for Linux
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Using Turnkey OVA of Observium and it installed properly. I have tried to run the following command with no luck/love. So after I run the first command it says a path prefix is not a directory. So after poking around I saw I had a xvda1.
root@observium ~# blkid
/dev/xvda1: UUID="AjIer9-K9Ue-vCoB-andJ-Nyjc-M7nq-Grl4dy" TYPE="LVM2_member" PARTUUID="2f250c11-01"
/dev/mapper/turnkey-root: UUID="9af46ee8-a597-438a-b55c-ba48f49b1044" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/mapper/turnkey-swap_1: UUID="2585744a-173e-43d2-a270-99d97a8780bf" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sr0: UUID="2015-07-23-17-00-00-00" LABEL="W10_X64" TYPE="udf"Installing XenServer Tools on Linux VMs
Select the VM in the Resources pane, right-click, and then click Install XenServer Tools on the shortcut menu. Alternatively, on the VM menu, click Install XenServer Tools.
Click Install XenServer Tools on the message dialog to go to the VM's console.
As the root user, mount the image into the VM:
mount -o ro,exec /dev/disk/by-label/XenServer\x20Tools /mnt -
It never mounts on the first try for me on Ubuntu VMs for whatever reason, usually just running the mount command again will mount it read-only. It's almost always in /dev/cdrom despite what the documentation says.
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/ -
@bnrstnr said in XenTools installation error for Linux:
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/
For the love of GOD that worked thanks!
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@bnrstnr said in XenTools installation error for Linux:
It never mounts on the first try for me on Ubuntu VMs for whatever reason, usually just running the mount command again will mount it read-only. It's almost always in /dev/cdrom despite what the documentation says.
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/What, the what?
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@scottalanmiller said in XenTools installation to Linux:
What, the what?
no idea lol that's just how it is
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@bnrstnr said in XenTools installation error for Linux:
@scottalanmiller said in XenTools installation to Linux:
What, the what?
no idea lol that's just how it is
Ubuntu fail.
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I only have a problem remembering which to use
/dev/dvd
/dev/sr0
/dev/cdrom
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@momurda said in XenTools installation error for Linux:
nly have a problem remembering which to use
/dev/dvd
/dev/sr0
/dev/cdrom
is different for each distro.Maybe Linux needs someone from a UX engineering background to help out! LOL because for something that is rock solid it changes too much
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@scottalanmiller said in XenTools installation error for Linux:
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/
So SCOTT am I wrong in reading this? Im telling the system to mount a dev called cdrom but turn around and "RE" mount it? WTF and WTH?!?!?! -
@krisleslie said in XenTools installation error for Linux:
@momurda said in XenTools installation error for Linux:
nly have a problem remembering which to use
/dev/dvd
/dev/sr0
/dev/cdrom
is different for each distro.Maybe Linux needs someone from a UX engineering background to help out! LOL because for something that is rock solid it changes too much
These changes are made by the individual dev teams though. . . so the issue is we need a massive hive mind to get everything to be standardized.
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@krisleslie No youre just mounting the /dev/cdrom device to a folder call /mnt
Could be anything, /stuff, /userdata, etc. /mnt is just there to use by default. -
@krisleslie said in XenTools installation error for Linux:
@scottalanmiller said in XenTools installation error for Linux:
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/
So SCOTT am I wrong in reading this? Im telling the system to mount a dev called cdrom but turn around and "RE" mount it? WTF and WTH?!?!?!@momurda answered but here is a "better" example.
mount /dev/cdrom /takethisdiskandlikeit
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You're specifying what device to mount, and where to mount it at.
So you would than jump into /takethisdiskandlikeit to run ./install
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So let me get this straight, I could have actually piped another command into that?
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@scottalanmiller said in XenTools installation error for Linux:
Ubuntu fail.
This is what I get every time I mount the XS guest tools ISO on Ubuntu. Every single time...
https://i.imgur.com/NnF1p9F.png -
That is the exact same error I got!
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@krisleslie said in XenTools installation error for Linux:
So let me get this straight, I could have actually piped another command into that?
Possibly, yes.
Likely
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt | sudo ./install.sh -
mount -o ro,exec /dev/disk/by-label/XenServer\x20Tools /mnt
It fails when we point to the "DISK"
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For the love of GOD if I wasn't happy with finding an answer that would have turned me off! Like it isn't helpful. Maybe I'm wrong but a UX engineer would be like, ummmm FIX THAT!
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Ok so I found out the installation instructions changed for Linux after a few releases!
Installing XenServer Tools on Linux VMs
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Select the VM in the Resources pane, right-click, and then click Install XenServer Tools on the shortcut menu. Alternatively, on the VM menu, click Install XenServer Tools.
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Click Install XenServer Tools on the message dialog to go to the VM's console.
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As the root user, mount the image into the VM:
mount /dev/xvdd /mnt -
Execute the installation script as the root user:
/mnt/Linux/install.sh
If the kernel has been upgraded, or the VM was upgraded from a previous version, reboot the VM now.
Note that CD-ROM drives and ISOs attached to Linux VMs appear as /dev/xvdd rather than /dev/cdrom. This is because they are not true CD-ROM devices, but normal devices. When the CD is ejected by XenCenter, it hot-unplugs the device from the VM and the device disappears. This is different from Windows VMs, where the CD remains in the VM in an empty state -
