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Sep 302011
 

List all active guest domains in Xen

Answer:

To list all active guest domains in Xen, you can use the xm list command.

# xm list

Name                                ID  Mem(MiB)   VCPUs      State      Time(s)
Domain-0                            0     768       2         r-----     1029.3
Web-server                         12     256       1         -b----       13.7
Feb 182011
 

SIOCSIFADDR: No such device after cloning VM

Answer:

When you cloned a VM from another machine, or migrated from another VM solution such as Xen, when you start the networking, you might encounter the problem of "SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth0".

This is because the MAC address of your VM has changed!

To solve it, just enter the command below:

# sudo rm /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

Restart your VM and should be okay now.

Jan 042011
 

Cannot start VirtualBox when installed KVM

Answer:

When you have installed the KVM module, it will conflict with your VirtualBox. To solve it in order to use the VirtualBox, execute the following command below:

1. For Intel CPU

# sudo rmmod kvm-intel

2. For AMD CPU

# sudo rmmod kvm-amd

Then you can start VirtualBox instance normally.

Apr 102007
 

Making ntp works in Xen domU

Answer:

In Xen, the clocks of all VMs are controlled by dom0, in order to make ntp work independently, you can edit the file "/etc/sysctl.conf"

xen.independent_wallclock = 1

Restart your server to take effects.