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What is the best way to set up a windows 10 VM with Hypervisor and Virtual Machine Platform enabled on Ubuntu?
I have a Ubuntu 24.04 LTS device. i want to install Windows 10 and enable Windows hypervisor platform / Hyper-V and virtual machine platform. What's the best solution for achieve this goal?
Note:
I do ...
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How to create and start Xen guest VM by qemu-system-x86_64 command
I have built & installed Xen 4.15 onto my Ubuntu20.04 platform successfully according to https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Compiling_Xen_From_Source
After reboot, I entered Domain 0 successfully. ...
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How to stop loading Xen 4.9-amd64 on boot
I installed xen on ubuntu following this question. Now, when I boot ubuntu 18.04, it takes ages and it says in the beginning:
Loading Xen 4.9-amd64 ...
WARNING: no console will be available to OS
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How to add space disk to VM Ubuntu 16.04 on Xen server
I have an Ubuntu 16.04 VM on Xenserver. I add a disk extension to it to increase its storage capacity. I added a disk on Xen, but the problem is that the Ubuntu VM does not detect the added disk ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 with xen 4.11 domU panic with pci passthrough
I started to upgrade my server from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04. After reinstalling xen / qemu in the dom0 XEN cannot start domains after upgrading from 18.04 to 20.04 dom0 and all domU instances worked as ...
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libxenlight state driver is not active
I'm trying to create a new xen connection with virt-manager. At the beginning it didn't work because this error : "failed to connect socket to '/var/run/libvirt/-virtxend-sock. file or directory ...
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socket to '/var/run/libvirt/virtxend-sock': File o directory not found
I'm running xen on ubuntu 20.04 and I'm trying to create a new xen connection with virt-manager,but it does not work,because the error : "failed to connect socket to '/var/run/libvirt/-virtxend-...
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Furher help on Xen and USB passthrough
I know that this is a long-shot, but I have not been able to obtain any help from the Xen community so I wondered if anyone in Ask Ubuntu may be able to help?
I have manged to get Xen installed and ...
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how to check if Xen support hardware virtualization?
I am try to check if xen in ubuntu 18.04 support virtualization.
By following this comand:
$ xm info | grep caps
I am follow step 5 of this tutorial:
Check virtualization capabilities
The output ...
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Directory 'mc/etc' does not exist
I am try to configure gateway.
I am follow step 4 of this
https://trueconf.com/blog/knowledge-base/configure-xen-hypervisor-ubuntu-server-14-4-05.html
When I open to edit mc/etc/sysctl.conf file I ...
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Problem with creating a PV-ubuntu-guest with Xen on slackware
I don't know if I'm in the right place but:
i have Xen installed on slackware and i wanted to create an Ubuntu-Guest-Domain.
I created the xen-config-file(attached) manually and created a new guest ...
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Sharing internet between Host and guest xen
I am using Ubuntu 14.04 as host machine,want to create bridge so that guest OS can access the WiFi Internet access. If a have understood correctly brctl utility is used to create bridge for Ethernet ...
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Pass-through of Marvell 88SE9230 to Xen guest with AMD-V iommu
I have a Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P board with a AMD FX(tm)-8350 cpu. I have IOMMU enabled in the BIOS.
For the non-XEN linux boot I pass iommu=pt amd_iommu_dump as a kernel argument and can verify that ...
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Xen boot fails on HP Z8
I followed the instructions in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Xen.
Well, the first two steps. After the reboot, I am presented with:
Loading Xen 4.9-amd_64 ...
WARNING: no console will be ...
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Qemu vs. Xen(Qemu): virsh can't find qemu
Im running following setup build from source:
libvirt
Xen(quemu was part of Xen build process)
virsh vol-create qcow2 Responds to me: No qemu installd, only raw possible.
Every solution pointet out ...
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Why is having an error initializing AMD-Vi?
I have a Ryzen 5 1600x CPU with a MSI X370 Gaming Pro Carbon motherboard, which 100% supports I/O virtualization. When I boot in Ubuntu without Xen I can see:
me:~$ dmesg | grep IOMMU
[ 1.074675] ...
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How to import Xen XVA files into KVM/QEMU
I am looking at powering down some Citrix XEN systems as part of an infrastructure upgrade and I was looking into using KVM/QEMU as the hypervisor instead of Xen.
My XEN backup files are in XVA ...
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How to install Xen-Tools on Ubuntu Server LTS 16.04 with Xenserver 7?
I tried several methods.
sudo apt-get install xen-tools is installing at least two packages but cannot configure / start them for unknown reason.
Source
Using the iso provided by Xencenter (...
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Unable to open config file: /etc/xen/guest4.cfg
I have installed XEN hypervisor on VirtualBox. I want to create virtual machine. I have followed all the steps but when finally I try to use the final step for creation VM:
root@ubuntu:~# sudo xm ...
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Xen vs dual-boot for games
friends!
I'm using Ubuntu for making games, browsing net and anything I could ever do and I really like it. However, there is a little problem. My favourite game series Resident Evil doesn't run well ...
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How to fix error 'libxenlight failed to create a new domain'?
Using Virt-Manager 1.2.1 on 14.04. / Xen 4.4 from repos. Cannot create VM machine because this error crops up on virt-manager.
This is after editing /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp to allow virt-manager to ...
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network setting with xen hypervisor
I have installed xen on my ubuntu 14.04 by following the instructions at here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2008795
However, after the reboot, on the logo screen (still no desktop), it ...
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Xen uninstallation
I have tried to install Xen on my ubuntu 14.04 system but I got an error while rebooting " error while mounting /proc/xen.
Now i want to remove xen packages completely from my system. I have tried ...
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Web-based Xen hypervisor
I want to make users able to create and manage virtual machines from a web-based interface.
I have installed Xen hypervisor on my Ubuntu machine
I have installed Apache webserver and all the other ...
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Can XenCenter connect to xen-hypervisor-amd64
I have installed XenServer recently, but didn't stick with it. I am familiar with Ubuntu and was reading you can install XenHypervisor as a standalone package inside a Ubuntu OS. Kind of like ...
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Multi-headed Gaming VM Host on Ubuntu Server
I am trying to build a multi-headed gaming system based on an Ubuntu Server 15.04 host with either Windows or Ubuntu/Linux Mint guests. I have gotten the systems nearly working with Linux Mint/Ubuntu ...
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Xen vm stuck at grub prompt
How can I get my Ubuntu server booting again? Is there a tool that would auto-fix this situation?
No matter how many ways I run the "boot fixer" using a virtual image of
boot-repair-disk-64bit.iso
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xen hypervisor wont boot from grub and "Can't find hypervisor information in sysfs!" error ubuntu 14.04
I have used This forum, trying to run xen on my os:
steps i have done :
egrep '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo
ouput = 4 and also i have run KVM virtualization with no problem.
then:
sudo apt-get ...
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isc-dhcp for Virtual Machines only
I installed Xen 4.3 on Ubuntu Server 14.04 and added the xenbr0 bridge.
The host IP is 145.173.136.2.
The network administrator reserved 15 IP's for the VMs: 145.173.136.112-126
So i installed the ...
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Xen, XAPI, and Xen Orchestra, Ubuntu 14.04 Server
I'am quite new to this topic and wanted to setup an Xen Environment for testing things on a spare machine.
For this I followed this tutorial: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Xen
But as I would also ...
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Need commands to fetch Guest VM OS version from Xen and KVM
I m looking for the commands that can be executed to fetch the OS Version of the VMs running on the below Hypervisors.
Xen (Not the citrix Xen server, but the Xen Sever hosted on a ubuntu Machine)
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How to integrate libvirt with libxl of Xen 4.4?
I'm running Xen 4.4 with Ubuntu 14.04 without any problems, like this:
root@hyper-xen-1:~# xl li
Name ID Mem VCPUs State Time(s)
Domain-0 ...
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virt-manager can't connect to xen
When I try to connect to my XEN domain with virtmanager on Ubuntu 14.04 I just get the following error:
Unable to connect to libvirt.
internal error: libxenlight state driver is not active
Verify ...
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How do I set up a KVM/NVidia Passthrough virtual machine for gaming?
I've seen a guide or two that seems to be replicated around on the internet on setting up KVM to use passthrough for Nvidia. It seems to require 2 video cards.
Is it possible to do it with 1 video ...
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Ubuntu 14.04, Xen 4.4 and XAPI toolstack
Just decided to start over with XEN on a completly different box I have.
In preparation, I started to look into the package details based on information found on both the Ubuntu howto wiki for Xen ...
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Xen 4.4 (64-bit) is not working on Ubuntu 14.04, xl fails
I did a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04 Desktop 64-bit with LVM option selected during installation. Then the first thing I did was installation of xen hypervisor.
sudo apt-get install xen-hypervisor-4....
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Why can't I boot into xen?
I started out with a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04 server set up on a 10GB LVM partition. The only other thing I did was to then install the xen-hypervisor:
sudo apt-get install xen-hypervisor-amd64
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Virtualizing Windows and Ubuntu with Xen [duplicate]
Alright, so I'm constantly switching between Windows and Linux, and I'd love to be able to just switch whenever I need without a full reboot, and after a bit of research I came up with xen.
I found ...
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kernel panic error in ubuntu 12.10
Before installing xen hypervisor my ubuntu 12.10 was working fine, but after installing xen I am unable to boot my ubuntu. The error is:
/bin/sh:error while loading shared liberaries:libc.so.6 cannot ...
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How to setup non-local bridged network for Xen?
I've had an absolute nightmare the past 5 days trying to set up the proper bridged networking for Xen. I've tried so many guides and all have failed to provide a solution for my specific question.
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Virtualization on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
We plan to introduce virtualization on our 64bit Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server so that we can run, in different VMs, a file server for our staff and some development machines for our IT team (code ...
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Setting up Xen VGA Passthrough With Two Different Video Card
While I have learned that you must use two different video cards to utilize Xen's VGA Passthrough, I am curious if you can do this with different video cards from the same manufacturer. Specifically, ...
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ubuntu 12.04LTS libvirt no conenction driver available
I am trying to setup a vm using xen under ubuntu 12.04LTS. I have installed the default libvirt version but I have some errors when trying to run:
$ virsh -c <uri> list
the errors are:
error: ...
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Xen - install fully paravirtualized Ubuntu - no virtual kernel in bootloader
I followed this guide:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Xen
I managed to get 99% the way through it, but it appears the xen-netboot image doesnt install a virtual kernel (it says 'generic' at the end ...
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Debootstrap chroot Installation Error
During initial installation (using both Network installation and CD ISO) of Ubuntu Server 12.04.1 LTS (64-bit) as a guest VM on XenServer 6.1 I'm getting this error:
Debootstrap warning
Warning: ...
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I want to install Xen to run Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7 at the same time but I can't find any good tutorials
I'm wanting to use Xen Hypervisor to be able to run both Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7 at the same time using virtualization. I can find plenty of XCP tutorials but I'm not looking to install the cloud ...
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What is the "/dev/xvda1" device?
When I type mount on the root of my Ubuntu system I get the output
/dev/xvdal on / type ext4 (rw,noatime)
I want to know what is the meaning of /dev/xvdal in this?
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Bridging: Losing WLAN network connection with 4addr on option - Why?
Question:
For use with my Xen VM, I need to create a virtual network interface (vif) that is bridged to wlan0.
If in /etc/network/interfaces I add
auto xenbr0
iface xenbr0 inet dhcp
And then ...
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Is there a better paravirtualization solution than Xen?
Question:
I want to run a (para) virtual machine on my Linux console server.
Catch-22 is that the processor does not support VTX/AMDv, so I have to use para virtualization instead of normal/hardware ...
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How do I configure networking when using XEN on 12.04 Server
I'm following this guide, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/XenProposed, and I'd like to setup a static IP address, but I don't know how. I'm using 12.04 Server.
This is the step I'm having trouble ...
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