SolusVM Xen server won’t boot Every so often I have users who have an issue with their SolusVM server not booting when it was working just fine. About 99% of the times it’s because they performed a yum upgrade and replace the kernel that caused their VPS to crash and Read more…
Setting up SolusVM with IPv6 Subnets You may be like me, and read the setup documentation for SolusVM on how to setup IPv6 subnets but it doesn’t tell you what are the other things that are needed to make it work. It doesn’t tell you what ethernet interface settings need Read more…
I mentioned in one of my earlier blogs that I would give information on to see boot messages using IPMI and SOL. These are the steps I would normally use. I’m using a Dell R610 server with a DRAC 5 Enterprise card installed. All the newer Dell servers have DRAC Read more…
I installed a new node we’re adding to the SolusVM cluster, however after finishing the SolusVM install script and we went to the admin to add the server, I got the following error: Volume Group not found After looking around a number of people mentioned this must be something with Read more…
I had to replace a host on our SolusVM cluster, and I created a new host and went to restore some VPS servers. Everything looked good, I was able to login and see all the VPS servers running but found my IPv6 wasn’t working on just these VPS servers, when Read more…
Seems like I’m always working on installing more Xen servers. We use SolusVM for our virtualization. Today I working on another node for a customer and ran into an issue. I installed a new CentOS 7 and perform the steps outlined in the Xen Quickstart, and then fixed a couple Read more…
Trying to get another CentOS 7.4 server running with Xen and getting another error. This initially looks like a previous error I has been getting where the screen goes blank from Xen Hypervisor won’t boot blog. However I was able to further determine the issue by enabling the Xen boot Read more…
I’ve installed Xen dozens of times on CentOS 6, it’s a pretty straight forward process. You can follow the Xen Quickstart documentation. It goes something like this… Running the following commands: yum -y install centos-release-xen yum -y update yum -y install xen Well I tried that on a CentOS 7 Read more…