Xen 4.0 and Citrix WHQL PV drivers for Windows
Xen 4.0 is supposed to be able to use Citrix’s WHQL certified Windows paravirtualization drivers. Their advantage over the GPLPV drivers is that they are code-signed, meaning they run on 64-bit Windows...
View ArticleHow-To: Converting Xen Linux VMs to VMWare ESXi
I have a couple Linux VMs I created on Xen using xen-create-image (as such, they are using pygrub and have one virtual disk file per partition). Now I want to migrate those over to a VMWare ESXi box....
View ArticleMount ext3 VMDK in VMWare Fusion using VMDKMounter
VMWare Fusion 3 comes with a tool called VMDKMounter.app. It allowed you to simply double-click NTFS or FAT32 VMDKs and they would be mounted on your desktop. VMWare Fusion 4 dropped this tool, but you...
View ArticleConverting Xen Linux VMs to VMWare
A year ago I wrote about how to convert from Xen to VMWare (which is a similar process to a Xen virtual-to-physical or V2P conversion). Now I found a much simpler solution, thanks to...
View ArticleVMWare ESXi 5.1.0 breaks PCI Passthrough (Update: fixed in ESXi510-201212001)
After I upgraded to VMWare ESXi 5.1.0, my server crashed with a purple screen of death as soon as I fired up a VM that was using a passed-through PCI device (1244:0e00, an AVM GmbH Fritz!Card PCI v2.0...
View ArticleVMware ESXi 5.5.0 panics when using Intel AMT VNC
For compatibility with a new guest OS, I upgraded my ESXi to 5.5 today. During reboot, it crashes after a few seconds (it briefly flashes a message about starting up PCI passthrough on the yellow ESXi...
View ArticleARP and multicast packets lost with OpenVPN in tap mode
After upgrading our OpenVPN server VM from Debian 7 to Debian 8 (moving us from OpenVPN 2.2 to OpenVPN 2.3 and Linux kernel 3.2 to Linux kernel 3.16) and upgrading our virtualization from VMware ESXi...
View ArticleWiring Fibre Channel for Arbitrated Loop
We have a small Fibre Channel SAN with three servers, a switch and a dual-controller RAID enclosure. With only a single switch, we obviously couldn’t connect all servers redundantly to the RAID system....
View ArticleFiltering outgoing traffic with VirtualBox’s NAT interface
Hypervisors like VMware Workstation, VMWare Fusion or VirtualBox usually offer three kinds of network interfaces: bridged (to a network on the host), NAT (sharing an IP address with the host via...
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