Monthly Archive: October 2011

Oct 21

Extending LVM volume on Linux root partition using XenServer

The first disk of a XenServer guest VM is called xvda, the second disk (the one we added) is called xvdb. We start with the creation of a Physical Volume (PV) on the extra disk. pvcreate /dev/xvdb Then we extend the existing Volume Group (VG) called VolGroup00. vgextend VolGroup00 /dev/xvdb Then we extend the Logical Volume (LV) …

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Oct 10

Oracle Virtual Server 3.0.2 patch has been released

You will want to upgrade your 3.0.1 OVM Manager to the latest patch release 3.0.2. Download the patch from http://support.oracle.com and the patch is called p13036236_30_Linux-x86-64.zip Unzip and copy the iso to your OVMM machine. mount -o loop OracleVM-Manager-3.0.x.iso /OVMCD cd /OVMCD ./runUpgrader.sh