XenServer 5.6: Tutorials to setup on Hetzner EQ root server
Here is a list of tutorials I’ve used to setup the XenServer 5.6 on a Hetzner root server with paravirtualized Ubuntu 10.04 and Debian 5.0 guest systems. Some tutorials were written for XenServer 5.5,...
View ArticleXenServer 5.6: Network problems with r8169 kernel module
Update 2010-10-21: Even with the new kernel module (r8168) the Hetzner monitoring reported short offline times now and then (about one ping failure every day). Compared to the old module (r8169) the...
View ArticleXenServer 5.6 & Debian Lenny: Fix apt-get/aptitude GPG error
If you follow the instructions in the Citrix Developer Network to set up a (paravirtualized) Debian Lenny guest system apt-get or aptitude will show the following errorW: GPG error:...
View ArticleXenServer 5.6: Kernel update for (paravirtualized) Ubuntu 10.04
I used jansipke’s great tutorial “Installing XenServer Tools on Ubuntu 10.04″ to set up a paravirtualized Ubuntu 10.04 guest system (to enable support for the XenServer Tools) on a XenServer 5.6 host...
View ArticleHetzner EQ root server & XenServer 5.6: Howto use additional IP subnets
With each Hetzner EQ root server you get a limited number of four IP addresses. Since you need one IP address for your XenServer host system and one for each guest system, the number of guest system is...
View ArticleXenServer 5.6: Add /var/log/btmp to logrotate
Warning: Since a large /var/log/btmp could indicate that somebody runs brute force attacks against your system, you may should at least think about changing the ssh port or setting up tools like...
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