{"id":55,"date":"2014-08-26T15:16:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T15:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carminebufano.com\/?p=55"},"modified":"2014-08-26T15:16:59","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T15:16:59","slug":"how-to-install-xenserver-tools-on-ubuntu-14-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carminebufano.com\/index.php\/2014\/08\/26\/how-to-install-xenserver-tools-on-ubuntu-14-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to install xenserver tools on Ubuntu 14.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tCitrix Xenserver is a very under valued and under used production quality tool, in my opinion.\u00a0 Maybe because there is not nearly as much &#8220;stuff&#8221; about it on the web as there is for other more popular hypervisors.. or shall i say hypervisor. Whatever the reason, you can greatly increase vm performance of both paravirtual and full hardware virtualized or HVM for short vm&#8217;s. On Ubuntu 14.04 and older 12.04 the process is the same.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1. After installing the operating system load up the xs-tools.iso into the vm.<\/p>\n<p>2. Mount the iso (on a paravirtual Ubuntu vm)<\/p>\n<p><code><pre class=\"\">\nsudo mount \/dev\/xvdd \/tmp<br \/>\n<\/pre><\/code><\/p>\n<p>On a Full HVM or a appliance imported from a different hypervisor the command will be.<\/p>\n<p><code><pre class=\"\">\nsudo mount \/dev\/cdrom \/tmp<br \/>\n<\/pre><\/code><\/p>\n<p>3. Change into the directory that contains the Linux tools.<\/p>\n<p><code><pre class=\"\">\ncd \/tmp\/Linux<br \/>\n<\/pre><\/code><\/p>\n<p>4. Run the installer.<\/p>\n<p><code><pre class=\"\">\nsudo .\/install.sh<br \/>\n<\/pre><\/code><\/p>\n<p>5. At the confirmation prompt, press &#8220;y&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>6. Move out of the directory.<\/p>\n<p><code><pre class=\"\">\ncd ~\/<br \/>\n<\/pre><\/code><\/p>\n<p>7. Unmount the image.<\/p>\n<p><code><pre class=\"\">\nsudo umount \/dev\/xvdd<br \/>\n<\/pre><\/code><\/p>\n<p>If a full HVM, unmount with<\/p>\n<p><code>sudo umount \/dev\/cdrom<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>8. Reboot<\/p>\n<p><code><pre class=\"\">\nsudo reboot<br \/>\n<\/pre><\/code><\/p>\n<p>9. Eject the CD.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy full 1000 MB\/s on your NIC speed!\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citrix Xenserver is a very under valued and under used production quality tool, in my opinion.\u00a0 Maybe because there is not nearly as much &#8220;stuff&#8221; about it on the web as there is for other more popular hypervisors.. or shall i say hypervisor. Whatever the reason, you can greatly increase vm performance of both paravirtual&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/carminebufano.com\/index.php\/2014\/08\/26\/how-to-install-xenserver-tools-on-ubuntu-14-04\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-citrix-xenserver","category-walkthroughs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":78,"url":"https:\/\/carminebufano.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/01\/how-to-install-xenserver-tools-xs-tools-iso-on-clearos-virtual-router\/","url_meta":{"origin":55,"position":0},"title":"How to install Xenserver tools (xs-tools.iso) on ClearOS virtual router.","author":"Carmine Bufano","date":"September 1, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Citrix Xenserver&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Citrix Xenserver","link":"https:\/\/carminebufano.com\/index.php\/category\/citrix-xenserver\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Other-Template-CXS","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/carminebufano.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Other-Template-CXS-300x187.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":283,"url":"https:\/\/carminebufano.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/26\/digital-ocean-how-to-download-a-copy-or-snapshot-of-your-droplet-or-vm-locally-and-run-it-on-your-own-server\/","url_meta":{"origin":55,"position":1},"title":"Digital Ocean How to download a copy or snapshot of your droplet or vm locally and run it on your own server","author":"Carmine Bufano","date":"December 26, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Announcements&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Announcements","link":"https:\/\/carminebufano.com\/index.php\/category\/announcements\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":94,"url":"https:\/\/carminebufano.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/04\/make-mikrotik-routeros-and-much-much-work-on-citrix-xenserver\/","url_meta":{"origin":55,"position":2},"title":"Make Mikrotik RouterOS and much, much more work on Citrix Xenserver","author":"Carmine Bufano","date":"September 4, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Citrix Xenserver&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Citrix Xenserver","link":"https:\/\/carminebufano.com\/index.php\/category\/citrix-xenserver\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":251,"url":"https:\/\/carminebufano.com\/index.php\/2014\/08\/25\/how-to-configure-many-web-servers-behind-one-public-ip\/","url_meta":{"origin":55,"position":3},"title":"How to self host many web servers with different domains &#038; URLs with one public IP","author":"Carmine Bufano","date":"August 25, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Ubuntu&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Ubuntu","link":"https:\/\/carminebufano.com\/index.php\/category\/ubuntu\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/carminebufano.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Pound-Proxy.vsdx_.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/carminebufano.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Pound-Proxy.vsdx_.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/carminebufano.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Pound-Proxy.vsdx_.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/carminebufano.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Pound-Proxy.vsdx_.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":857,"url":"https:\/\/carminebufano.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/ovn-integration-coexistence-on-xenserver-and-xcp-ng\/","url_meta":{"origin":55,"position":4},"title":"OVN Integration &amp; Coexistence on Xenserver and XCP-ng","author":"Carmine Bufano","date":"April 20, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Research on multi hypervisor network virtualization using Open Virtual Network Summary The cleanest technical path is not to bolt a foreign br-int onto a host that already has its networking lifecycle owned by XAPI. 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