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    • DustinB3403D
      DustinB3403
      last edited by

      I figured as much.

      Just seems a rather tedious process to have to update the XS Tools on every VM.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
        last edited by

        @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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        • DustinB3403D
          DustinB3403
          last edited by

          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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          • DustinB3403D
            DustinB3403
            last edited by

            Meaning, is there a Xen Server command to mount the media to all VM's on a given host?

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
              last edited by

              @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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              • DashrenderD
                Dashrender @scottalanmiller
                last edited by

                @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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                • dafyreD
                  dafyre
                  last edited by

                  PDQ Deploy should do the trick for this!

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                  • DustinB3403D
                    DustinB3403
                    last edited by

                    This doesn't hit the Linux VM's that we're running.

                    But is a work around.

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
                      last edited by

                      @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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                      • DustinB3403D
                        DustinB3403
                        last edited by

                        They don't update between releases of Xen. An apt-get update might work, haven't tested.

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
                          last edited by

                          @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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                          • DustinB3403D
                            DustinB3403
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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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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
                              last edited by

                              @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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                              • DustinB3403D
                                DustinB3403
                                last edited by

                                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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                                • DustinB3403D
                                  DustinB3403
                                  last edited by

                                  There weren't any nameservers in /etc/resolve.conf.

                                  Corrected the issue.

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
                                    last edited by

                                    @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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                                    • DustinB3403D
                                      DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
                                      last edited by

                                      @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.

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