{"id":579,"date":"2016-04-26T09:17:01","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T08:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.haxed.me.uk\/?p=579"},"modified":"2016-04-26T09:19:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T08:19:11","slug":"updating-xen-server-pv-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haxed.me.uk\/index.php\/2016\/04\/26\/updating-xen-server-pv-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Updating Xen Server PV Drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So you want to update your PV Drivers for your machine. You might want to do this if you are for instance migrating a VM with older PV tools, and you want to use on a newer Hypervisor. Some windows machines are particularly sensitive and can sometimes crash if the latest tools are not installed. In this case no tools are intalled at all on a 5.6 host. So we are going to install the PV 5.6 drivers. <\/p>\n<p>This may be of use to Rackspace customers of the first generation platform.<\/p>\n<h2> Install\/Upgrade PV Drivers Linux <\/h2>\n<pre>\r\nwget http:\/\/437117ba0e2524fdae22-6a87f3acbfcde81a104bb18fbb8cb85f.r47.cf2.rackcdn.com\/xen_tools_installer.sh; <br>\r\nchmod u+x xen_tools_installer.sh; bash xen_tools_installer.sh; rm -rf xen_tools_installer.sh\r\n<\/pre>\n<h2> Install\/Upgrade PV Drivers Windows <\/h2>\n<pre>\r\n# Xenserver 5.6 PV Drivers\r\nhttp:\/\/8d268c176171c62fbd4b-7084e0c7b53cce27e6cc2142114e456e.r30.cf1.rackcdn.com\/xstools-5.6.zip\r\n<\/pre>\n<pre>\r\n# Xenserver 6.0 PV Drivers\r\nhttp:\/\/8d268c176171c62fbd4b-7084e0c7b53cce27e6cc2142114e456e.r30.cf1.rackcdn.com\/xstools-6.0.zip\r\n<\/pre>\n<pre>\r\n# Xenserver 6.1 PV Drivers\r\nhttp:\/\/8d268c176171c62fbd4b-7084e0c7b53cce27e6cc2142114e456e.r30.cf1.rackcdn.com\/xstools-6.1.zip\r\n<\/pre>\n<pre>\r\n# Xenserver 6.2 PV Drivers\r\nhttp:\/\/8d268c176171c62fbd4b-7084e0c7b53cce27e6cc2142114e456e.r30.cf1.rackcdn.com\/xstools-6.2.zip\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>The windows setup is a lot simpler. Just download a zip for your version of Xen Server (MAKE SURE YOU KNOW WHICH ONE! IMPORTANT), and then run the xensetup.exe. Simples!<\/p>\n<h2> From the Hypervisor side <\/h2>\n<p>It&#8217;s possible to use xenstore-ls and check against the domain for the PV drivers in the attr attribute;<\/p>\n<h2> Tools not installed example, empty attr <\/h2>\n<pre>\r\n# xenstore-ls \/local\/domain\/218 | grep attr\r\nattr = \"\"\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you want to update your PV Drivers for your machine. You might want to do this if you are for instance migrating a VM with older PV tools, and you want to use on a newer Hypervisor. Some windows &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/haxed.me.uk\/index.php\/2016\/04\/26\/updating-xen-server-pv-drivers\/\">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":[15,9,50,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud","category-linux","category-windows","category-xen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haxed.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","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=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/haxed.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582,"href":"https:\/\/haxed.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haxed.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haxed.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haxed.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}