Regarding Fix #1
(xapi_version_override):
This doesn't seem to
work with XCP 1.4.90 (but may work with later releases). For now, you need to
do a binary patch of /opt/xensource/bin/xapi. Otherwise XenCenter will always
recognize XCP as a very old XenServer release and this causes trouble in many
situations.
To do the binary patch, do the following on every XCP 1.4.90 host:
cd
/opt/xensource/bin
/etc/init.d/xapi stop
cp -vp xapi xapi.original
sed -i 's/1\.4\.90/6.0.99/g' xapi
/etc/init.d/xapi start
After re-connecting
XenCenter to the XCP host, it will be identified as a XenServer 6.0 host,
enabling all the wonderful modern features and fixing some strange behavior you
may have encountered before patching.
Btw., of course
there is no 6.0.99 version of XenServer, but it should be the highest value the
version identification of XenServer 6.0 should ever reach (unless there's a new
service/feature pack or completely new version released), so it should be the best
setting to get all features in XenCenter 6.0 for any 6.0-compatible XCP
release.
As mentioned above
in the Fix #1 section, XenCenter will complain about the official XCP Xen Tools
being outdated, since they also report 1.4.90 as version identification.
Taking the fixes for
XenTools as described above and modifying them for XCP 1.4.90, they now look
like this:
On each Linux guest
with xe-guest-utilities (Xen Tools) installed:
sed -i
/usr/sbin/xe-update-guest-attrs -e 's/MajorVersion"
"1"/MajorVersion" "6"/'
sed -i /usr/sbin/xe-update-guest-attrs -e 's/MinorVersion"
"4"/MinorVersion" "0"/'
sed -i /usr/sbin/xe-update-guest-attrs -e 's/MicroVersion"
"90"/MicroVersion" "99"/'
# wait 2 minutes and check XenCenter again (or just execute
/usr/sbin/xe-update-guest-attrs )
On each Windows
guest with Xen Tools installed, modify the following registry values:
Server 2003/XP - Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Citrix\XenTools
Server 2008 64-bit -
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Citrix\XenTools
Name
|
Data (hex)
|
MajorVersion
|
6
|
MicroVersion
|
0
|
MinorVersion
|
99
|
(Only decimal values
shown here, Windows Registry will show both decimal and hex.)
Then reboot the
Windows guest or restart the 'Citrix Tools for Virtual Machine Service'
service.
Restarting XenTools on Windows command line (cmd) works like this:
net stop
xensvc
net start xensvc
