XenServer Tools for VMs
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Just curious if anyone knows if this is possible.
Can you mass install XenServer tools to all VM's on a host/pool without having to go to each VM.
Edit: Or is it possible toperform a Pool wide XenServer Tools update on all VM's via CLI?
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No, because it is an app installation. XenServer can't talk to the VMs in such a way as to force apps onto them. If it could that would be a security exposure. It would also be a very popular software deployment tool and virus vector.
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I figured as much.
Just seems a rather tedious process to have to update the XS Tools on every VM.
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@DustinB3403 said:
I figured as much.
Just seems a rather tedious process to have to update the XS Tools on every VM.
Welcome to the pain of using Windows. You have to update everything on Windows either manually or get tools that do it for you.
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OK How about this question.
is it possible to at least mount the install media to every VM on a host/pool? (automagically of course)
This way all that would have to be done is the installation.
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Meaning, is there a Xen Server command to mount the media to all VM's on a given host?
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@DustinB3403 said:
Meaning, is there a Xen Server command to mount the media to all VM's on a given host?
Should be. OR just take the files and deploy them through whatever Windows deployment method you want.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@DustinB3403 said:
Meaning, is there a Xen Server command to mount the media to all VM's on a given host?
Should be. OR just take the files and deploy them through whatever Windows deployment method you want.
Exactly - if you can mount it in one VM, then copy the files to a network share, then use whatever tools you have, as Scott said.
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PDQ Deploy should do the trick for this!
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This doesn't hit the Linux VM's that we're running.
But is a work around.
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@DustinB3403 said:
This doesn't hit the Linux VM's that we're running.
But is a work around.
Don't they have these built in and update automatically without intervention already?
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They don't update between releases of Xen. An apt-get update might work, haven't tested.
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@DustinB3403 said:
They don't update between releases of Xen. An apt-get update might work, haven't tested.
You aren't doing apt-get updates every few days anyway?
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Several of our Linux VM's are detached from the internet so they'd result in a failure anyways. They're only running intranet websites (media wiki)
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@DustinB3403 said:
Several of our Linux VM's are detached from the internet so they'd result in a failure anyways. They're only running intranet websites (media wiki)
Why would you be detached from getting updates?
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It was imported from a physical box, and we've never bothered to look into it.
Now that you ask, I'm looking into it.
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There weren't any nameservers in /etc/resolve.conf.
Corrected the issue.
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@DustinB3403 said:
It was imported from a physical box, and we've never bothered to look into it.
Now that you ask, I'm looking into it.LOL, that's a bit different than "are disconnected from the Internet."
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@scottalanmiller Yeah... I know..
It was just never bothered with. ..
I'm making a snapshot right now using NAUBackup of my VM's before running the upgrades. As ya never know if something will get broken.
