Sysadmin Help…

If you have forgotten the password for your ubuntu server, the following steps may help you recover it
On a traditional Pc
BOOT PC

Press ESC at the grub prompt.
Press e to edit the kernel parameters.
Select line that starts kernel ………, press e
Go to the end of line, and add the following:  rw init=/bin/bash
press enter, then press b to boot your system.

Your system will boot up in a single user shell.

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The Template for Ubuntu 9.10 64Bit is avaliable for download.

Image Is an Ubuntu 9.10 Installation excluding Grub2 and The fs is ext3 instead of Ext4 due to xenserver and pygrub incompatabilities, Make sure that if you use the apt-get update or aptitude update and Upgrade and the kernel is updated, double check the grub config before rebooting, to ensure that the ec2 or a xen kernel has been installed, otherwise you will have to use the xenserver tool xe-edit-bootloader to fix your grub conf.

You can download at one of the following Sources
Vm Details.
Username root
password password
Network set to dhcp

Source 1 or Source 2

Finally, after a long night of frustration, i have managed to get Ubuntu 9.10 working on xenserver, Basically, i had to leave out the update to grub 2, since the pygrub that comes with xenserver does’ not read Grub2 configs, and it also doesn’t read ext4,
So This image uses the ext3 fs, and the normal grub, due to limitations on the xenserver side, or you may say ubuntu are very quick to implement the new features,
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As a loyal user of xenserver 5.5, i find the product as rock solid and find that vm’s run much faster on the xenserver platform than other platform’s,
I’m not saying that xenserver is the best, as other products Such as Vmware offer many incentives, added functionality and other operating systems, where citrix are still lacking behind, Read the rest of this entry »

Installing A Xenserver Ubuntu PV vm from scratch

Step 1

If installing a x64 os then select the Currently Selected template, if installing the 32bit version then select the one above,

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As requested here is the 64bit version of the ubuntu 9 template that runs on citrix xenserver paravirtualised.

download link

http://rapidshare.com/files/289417026/Ubuntux64.7z.001

http://rapidshare.com/files/289470456/Ubuntux64.7z.002

Unzip files with 7zip
user name root
pass: password

the image is set as dhcp, has xen virtualised pv kernel and xenserver tools installed.
Just import trough xencenter or the xe client, and your ubuntu is ready…

Isaac

After reading many blogs, and trying for a while before succeeding, in creating an Ubuntu 9 pv template on xen, i have finally got it working, and have created a template which runs in PV mode, has the xentools installed and is avaliable for download for free.

A paravirtualized Citrix Xenserver 5.5 template for Ubuntu 9.04 x32,
you can find more templates in the templates page above.
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1. Install a nic card that is on the XenServer 5 HCL

2. Once the card is installed, and the server has booted up, run

kudzu /etc/sysconfig/hwconf
then
ifconfig -a

from the shell prompt. You only know if the card is compatible if you see the card in the list ex eth1 or whichever number the newly added nic card would be next.
3. Once you see the new card from Linux run “xe host-list”
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