xcpng

This is a quick note on how to install xe-guest-utilities on OpenSUSE Leap 15.5. Unlike other distros like AlmaLinux where xe-guest-utilities is provided by EPEL repository, on OpenSUSE Leap, this package is available in the guest-tools.iso disk. At least, I was not able to find any similar package on OpenSUSE’s repositories which provide this Xe guest utilities. Therefore, we first need to attach the guest-tools.iso disk to the VM. On Xen Orchestra web ui, perform the following:...

I have migrated a VM running on Proxmox to Xcpng host. Despite the imported VM on Xcpng has a new NIC with new MAC address, it still retained old IP address asssigned to the old MAC of the VM running on Proxmox. The VM is running OpenSUSE Leap 15.5 and use wicked for network management. How to fix this? Spoiler alert, I figured out how to fix it. First, let’s run some commands to display some information....

This evening while I was running the system update on one of the guest VMs running on my XCP-ng host, I accidentally rebooted the XCP-ng host. Why? Accident! The guest VM is very important, it’s running Xen Orchestra for this XCP-ng server. Semi-fortunately, I remember I had a snapshot for this VM. The challenge for me was, how could I restore the VM using that previous snapshot without Xen Orchestra....

On AlmaLinux, the guest-tool for XCP-ng is provided by a package named xe-guest-utilities-latest, which in turn is available from the epel-release repository. The following list a few steps to get XCP-ng guest-tool installed on a VM running AlmaLinux 9. Enable epel-release repository if not yet enabled by first installing a package called epel-release. In my case, the repo has been already enabled. [root@xoa1 ~]# rpm -q epel-release epel-release-9-7.el9.noarch Install the guest-tool....