Problems use the Virtual Machine on XenServer?

[carlosFDP del prado]

I do this:
Care about the machine in XenServer 6.5
Home machine
It stops at this point

As I can do to make this machine run on XenServer?

[Spyridon Gouliarmis (RCDevs)]

Sorry Carlos, we don't support XenServer as a hypervisor. It might be a small fix, but everyone seems to use VMWare or Hyper-V these days, so why bother. You can still install a Linux image that works on Xen, then use our installers on top of it, but that's much more work than just using something like VirtualBox.

[Mark Burdick]

I have a similar issue and am also trying to get these to run on XenServer.

VirtualBox is not an option as it is a Type II Hypervisor while XenServer and VMware are Type I hypervisors. The virtual machines that are provided are in OVF format which essentially means that they should run on any Hypervisor that supports them. But, something is "hanging" during the boot process that XenServer doesn't like and ends up shutting the VM back down.

As far as changing my Hypervisor, that is a significant amount of work compared to what it would take to either correct the RCDev virtual machine image or build a machine using the installer packages that you provide on a Linux distribution of my choosing. 

Since you commented on the pervasiveness of VMware and Hyper-V compared to XenServer, I'm curious as to why RCDevs opted for CentOS as compared to SUSE, RedHat, Ubuntu, or Debian - all of which are in the majority compared to CentOS.

Is there a documented process that RCDevs follows to create the VMware images? Maybe that could be leveraged to create images on other OS'es or even to create images specifically for XenServer by the community.

[Spyridon Gouliarmis (RCDevs)]

A way to get exactly what you want would go a bit like this:

"Hello Mr RCDevs salesman, I represent <rich company> and I'd like to use it for <huge number> users. There's just a small technical detail I'd like to discuss."

As far as I know our appliance is a vanilla CentOS 6 with our main products installed and configured to talk to each other. No documented process. We opted for CentOS 6 because the boss originally did.

You can also launch an instance of our latest AWS AMI, ami-230f4d34, it's the same idea as the appliance.

[Mark Burdick]

I will look into deploying CentOS 6.8 (seems to be the version that the appliances use?) on ESX and see if I can determine the piece that might be interfering with the boot process on XenServer.

Being that I'm not the only person that's looking for the ability to use these appliances on XenServer, involvement from the community to help create a parallel appliance or document the changes that might be needed from the ones RCDevs publishes would seemingly be the best for both RCDevs and the community.

[Spyridon Gouliarmis (RCDevs)]

CentOS 6.0 came without support for being a domU, that came only with CentOS 6.4. Maybe our VM was yum update'd from < 6.4 and just needs the right packages.

Also, I'm of the strong opinion that every service needs payment. Make of that what you want.