{"id":458,"date":"2016-02-22T07:21:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T07:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.haxed.me.uk\/?p=458"},"modified":"2016-02-29T09:32:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T09:32:48","slug":"upgrading-xen-tools-on-rackspace-cloud-instance-virtual-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haxed.me.uk\/index.php\/2016\/02\/22\/upgrading-xen-tools-on-rackspace-cloud-instance-virtual-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading Xen Tools on Rackspace Cloud instance Virtual Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, what with the first gen to next gen migrations ongoing, a lot of people may need to upgrade their xen server tools to the most recent version. Anyone who is running 5.5 or lower should upgrade to xs tools 6.2.0 pronto, it&#8217;s much more stable and fixes a lot of bugs that might exist in the earlier tool verisons. Here is how to do it.<\/p>\n<p>But first <strong> ALWAYS TAKE A BACKUP IMAGE <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just in case. Remember installing XEN TOOLS can <strong> break your container if done incorrectly <\/strong> or if <strong> god hates you <\/strong>.<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nwget http:\/\/boot.rackspace.com\/files\/xentools\/xs-tools-6.2.0.iso\r\n\r\nmkdir -p tmp; mount -o loop xs-tools-6.2.0.iso tmp; cd tmp\/Linux; .\/install.sh; cd ..\/..; umount tmp\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>An excellent guide<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nhttps:\/\/support.rackspace.com\/how-to\/installing-xenserver-tools-on-next-generation-windows-cloud-servers\/\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, what with the first gen to next gen migrations ongoing, a lot of people may need to upgrade their xen server tools to the most recent version. Anyone who is running 5.5 or lower should upgrade to xs tools &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/haxed.me.uk\/index.php\/2016\/02\/22\/upgrading-xen-tools-on-rackspace-cloud-instance-virtual-machine\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bash","category-xen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haxed.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haxed.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haxed.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haxed.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haxed.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/haxed.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468,"href":"https:\/\/haxed.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haxed.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haxed.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haxed.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}