Force Shutdown Xen VM Rumi, February 27, 2021 Instructions Disable High Availability (HA) so you don’t run into issues Log into the Xenserver host that is running your VM with issues via ssh or console via XenCenter Run the following command to list VMs and their UUIDs xe vm-list resident-on=<uuid_of_host> First you can try just the normal shutdown command with force xe vm-shutdown uuid=<UUID from step 3> force=true If that just hangs, use CONTROL+C to kill it off and try to reset the power state. The force is required on this command xe vm-reset-powerstate uuid=<UUID from step 3> force=true If the VM is still not shutdown, we may need to destroy the domain Run this command to get the domain id of the VM. It is the number in the first row of output. The list will be the VMs on the host. Dom0 will be the host itself and all numbers after are running VM list_domains Now run this command using the domain ID from the output of step 7 xl destroy <DOMID from step 7> Related Virtualization XCP-NG
Install Xen Orchestra on Ubuntu 20 March 21, 2023 Prework apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade Node.js For this particular installation node 16 is needed to be installed. Lets install- Add NodeSource PPA This command will add PPA sources required to be able to install NodeJS 16 on your Ubuntu 20.04 installation: curl -s https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_16.x | sudo bash Install NodeJS… Read More
Creating a XEN guest and tidbids in CLI April 7, 2023 INSTALLING A GUEST DOMAIN (“DOMU”) Now that the Xen hypervisor/Dom0 virtual machine is configured and up and running, it’s time to configure and create a DomU. Just like we did in the Debian 9 tutorial, we will now install and use the xen-tools package to automate the steps involved in creating a… Read More
Virtual Machine Manager May 6, 2011May 6, 2011 The "Virtual Machine Manager" application (virt-manager for short package name) is a desktop user interface for managing virtual machines. It presents a summary view of running domains, their live performance & resource utilization statistics. The detailed view graphs performance & utilization over time. Wizards enable the creation of new domains,… Read More