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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @jrc
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      @jrc said in Smoothwall on XenServer 7.1:

      The frustrating thing here is that they have built in support for VMWare, but not Xen.

      That's minor. The REALLY frustrating part is that they REMOVED support for Xen!

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      • jrcJ
        jrc @scottalanmiller
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        @scottalanmiller

        I completely agree.

        However in Education you have to work with what you've got and convincing the board to scrap a $10k licence to shell out for a different $10k one would be kind of hard without serious compelling reason. Lack of Xenserver support would not be compelling enough I think.

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        • PenguinWranglerP
          PenguinWrangler @NerdyDad
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          @NerdyDad Untangle has this exact issue in Citrix Xenserver 6.5 and 7.1, been here before. Was going to virtualize Untangle. It didn't work, so I left it on its own box as it was working fine. Once the need arises for me to get it to work I will tackle it. Reid Cooper hit it on the head the Xen PV kernel is stripped out of Untangle too. Works fine in VMWare, and KVM.

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @PenguinWrangler
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            @PenguinWrangler said in Smoothwall on XenServer 7.1:

            @NerdyDad Untangle has this exact issue in Citrix Xenserver 6.5 and 7.1, been here before. Was going to virtualize Untangle. It didn't work, so I left it on its own box as it was working fine. Once the need arises for me to get it to work I will tackle it. Reid Cooper hit it on the head the Xen PV kernel is stripped out of Untangle too. Works fine in VMWare, and KVM.

            Should, in theory, be able to get it working with HVM. But it still needs drivers.

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @jrc
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              @jrc said in Smoothwall on XenServer 7.1:

              However in Education you have to work with what you've got and convincing the board to scrap a $10k licence to shell out for a different $10k one would be kind of hard without serious compelling reason.

              Compelling reason is "best meets our needs." Saying that educators are too uneducated to understand high school level math and economics is a sad state of affairs. They teach why they should not even consider that in high school 🙂 Maybe they need to start back over in ninth grade before being in these decision making positions.

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              • PenguinWranglerP
                PenguinWrangler @scottalanmiller
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                @scottalanmiller said in Smoothwall on XenServer 7.1:

                @PenguinWrangler said in Smoothwall on XenServer 7.1:

                @NerdyDad Untangle has this exact issue in Citrix Xenserver 6.5 and 7.1, been here before. Was going to virtualize Untangle. It didn't work, so I left it on its own box as it was working fine. Once the need arises for me to get it to work I will tackle it. Reid Cooper hit it on the head the Xen PV kernel is stripped out of Untangle too. Works fine in VMWare, and KVM.

                Should, in theory, be able to get it working with HVM. But it still needs drivers.

                True, but as it was running fine on the hardware they had. I couldn't justify the time and cost to my client. I honestly want to move them off of Untangle. It is fine but their upgrade process has made me very upset. That though should be an entirely different thread.

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                • Reid CooperR
                  Reid Cooper
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                  Aren't PV templates rare at this point?

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @Reid Cooper
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                    @Reid-Cooper said in Smoothwall on XenServer 7.1:

                    Aren't PV templates rare at this point?

                    I have not checked recently, but I thought that nearly all had moved to HVM at this point.

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                    • jrcJ
                      jrc @Reid Cooper
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                      @Reid-Cooper

                      I can tell you that the templates for Debian 6 and 7 are PV in Xen 7.1

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller @jrc
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                        @jrc said in Smoothwall on XenServer 7.1:

                        @Reid-Cooper

                        I can tell you that the templates for Debian 6 and 7 are PV in Xen 7.1

                        The old templates should not update. But current ones.

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