Naively, when creating my new VMWare ESXi virtual machines, I was expecting to be able to resize the disks with a one-liner as I have done in the past with container based virtualisation. Unfortunately it’s not quite that simple, the VM partitions will need manually resizing: Increase the virtual disk size via Vsphere to the [...]
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Install Linux Guest Support (CD2) after Citrix Xenserver installation
May 12th, 2010
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If you forget to install the Linux Guest Support cd during Xenserver installation, there are a few ways to install it post install. Mount the CD in your KVM/DRAC etc and do: cd / mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/CD cd /mnt/CD ./install.sh follow the installation…. cd / umount /mnt/CD Or wget the ISO then: mkdir -p /mnt/iso [...]
Citrix Xenserver [Errno5] Input/Output error during install
May 12th, 2010
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During installation of Citrix Xenserver 5 over DRAC (Dell Remote Access Controller) using amounted ISO, I got the error: [Errno5] Input/Output error during install The initial install phase started properly and it allowed me to enter all configuration settings, but failed at the end of installation. Presumably this is either an issue with the DRAC [...]
