Installing XenServer tools
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Mon, 2016-10-10 09:58
nowoe
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- 2014-08-10
Hello,
I'd like to run Alpine Linux 3.4.4 as guest on a XenServer 6.5 installation. Installation as 'sys' was without troubles.
In order to install XenServer tools I ran
apk add xe-guest-utilities
and
service xe-guest-utilities start
to start them.
Output:
Detecting Linux distribution version... [!!] Mount xenfs on /proc/xen... [ok] Starting xe-daemon... [ok]
XenCenter still reports that XenServer tools are not installed.
It's my first attempt to run Alpine Linux under XenServer so I don't know if the above is what should be done and what the expected output is. Why is 'Detecting Linux distribution version' failing? Many thanks for your help.
I've managed to get the service started without issues by editing
/usr/sbin/xe-linux-distribution. Lines modified fromeval $(sed -n \ -e 's/^.*-\([0-9]*\)\.\([0-9]*\)\.[0-9]* .*$/major=\1;minor=\2/gp;' \ -e 's/^.*-\([0-9]*\) .*$/major=\1;minor=/gp;' \ "${alpine_release}")to
eval $(sed -n \ -e 's/^\([0-9]*\)\.\([0-9]*\)\.[0-9]*.*$/major=\1;minor=\2/gp;' \ "${alpine_release}")(Seems the content/syntax of
/etc/alpine-releasehas changed)Service xe-guest-utilities start up at boot time successfully, but XenCenter still reports that XenServer Tools are not installed (so the vm cannot be shutdown gracefully from Dom0).
Might it be a version issue? APKBUILD of xe-guest-utilities seems to refer to sources from XenServer 5.5. Perhaps sources from 6.2.0 (http://updates.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer/6.2.0/rhel4x/SRPMS/) might work (xen guest utilities of FreeBSD VMs are reported as version 6.2.0 and work fine)?
Looks like the package is broken.
Could you please file a bug on https://bugs.alpinelinux.org (with target version 3.5.0)?
One of the alpine devs will fix it.
Thanks for your response, but my account doesn't work on bugs.alpinelinux.org (can't login).
After upgrading to 3.4.6 things have changed: XenCenter now recognizes that xe-guest-utilities are installed, although it complains about the outdated version 5.5.