xe-guest-utilities

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:...

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....