BTW, I called Microsoft, and these keys, while allowing for a valid install of Windows 10, do not show as activated under Windows 10.
So I really have no idea what is going to happen after Friday.
I'm not so sure Microsoft knows, either. Or at least their chat people set up to deal with activation issues.
I wonder if ANY of the upgraded machines have their keys "registered" under Windows 10.
This is mainly a FPP discussion, but say I bought Windows 7 FPP. I upgrade to 10. I want to but a new machine and install it there. I don't have a Windows 10 key. Will the 7 key be registered that it was used for 10? I wonder...
All mainly under the discussion of getting Windows 10 for free.
@Reid-Cooper said in Getting Windows 10 License Upgrade on Linux Mint Laptop:
Maybe it is just a scare tactic and everyone is getting Windows 10 no matter what.
Wouldn't that be something.
Of course, knowing how money hungry MS is, I bet not.
@IRJ said in How to Reset your Wordpress Admin Password:
@scottalanmiller How do you put your scripts on here. I was looking for a toggle in the toolbar for it. Is there some code that you use?
use the ` character 3 times
you mean this?
you mean this?Has anyone updated to 5.1 yet?
I tried today, and it kept me on 5.0.
Is it under next-release or stable? Or something entirely different?
FORGET IT I FIGURED IT OUT.
I must have been on next-release or something.
I ran it again with no issues.
Actually it was:
lvchange -ay <VGname/LVname>
And by checking, he means learning and just happening to find it.
I've spoken with these guys. Always wanted to use them.
@olivier said in BRRABill's Field Report With XenServer:
Report any issue
My new nickname will be ... the phantom menace.
@travisdh1 said
Ah, 2nd guess, compress:
Both the jobs with and without compression both say "compress:"
I'm wondering if it was supposed to say
"compress:yes"
or something.
Which is why I am wondering if it is a bug.
@travisdh1 said in Last chance for a free Windows 10 upgrade:
@scottalanmiller said in Last chance for a free Windows 10 upgrade:
@travisdh1 said in Last chance for a free Windows 10 upgrade:
Nothing like waiting till the last minute I guess.
that's how I roll.
Can't really blame you for avoiding the pain that always stems from dealing with Microsoft.
Though the Windows 10 upgrade process has been pretty pain free.
The one issue I hit a lot was a too small system reserved partition on a lot of machines.
Hmmm, activation servers are down.
Oh, it goes through, then says "we can't help you" or some such BS, and hangs up.
My new take on XS is to not touch XS. It's like Fight Club.
The easy way for ISOs I found was...
a) set up a new Linux Mint VM
b) set up an anonymous share
c) add ISOs
d) done
Windows works, but it;s hard to do anonymous shares, I've always found. You could create a user, which I did initially, but I've since moved to a small Mint instance and haven't looked back.
@olivier said
That's a way to do it also yes. In general, I've got always a physical machine (eg for backup) with enough space to do that. Doesn't require much bandwidth and power to simply share ISOs.
Yeah, just giving options. 
There are many.
Anything that can share files would work. I just find sharing files anonymously through Windows maddening.
@olivier said
I have no idea, last time I tried it was 10 years ago.
It's probably why you moved on! 
@wirestyle22 said in What You Need to Know About XenServer:
Extremely easy install. Everything up and running. Reading/Testing more tonight. How are you guys determining the need for virtual/physical cores per server etc?
There is some nice performance monitoring built right into XC and XO. That's a good place to watch and see if anything (CPU, RAM, etc.) needs to be increased.
@scottalanmiller ... one more thing you might want to add to your initial writeup is to install the XenTools onto each VM for optimal performance monitoring and VM functionality
P.S. @wirestyle22 install the XenTools on your VMs if you haven't already. You'll find them on the ISO repository. Just inser the tools ISO and run it.
@olivier said in What You Need to Know About XenServer:
I'm currently writing a complete guide/blog post on Xen tools.
I'm not being a smart ass, but what is there to guide?
Install ISO, run setup.
Am I missing something?
@olivier said in What You Need to Know About XenServer:
@BRRABill A lot of XS noobs seems lost with that, and the official doc is not very great.
It would be nice to know what you have with and without. I think that would explain why it is needed.
I think they confused things a bit with XC7 by including the "windows updates" thing. Are you going to touch on that? (I bet you'd get a lot of Google hits on that one.)
@DustinB3403 said
What hardware in particular did you get for this client? I'm considering doing some rewiring at my home.
You know you are the one who started this thread with the exact same question, right?
I am glad I resurrected it.