XCP Guest Tools SUSE Linux

Soarin

Hello! I was wondering if there's a way to get my openSUSE Leap server to install XCP Guest tools. I couldn't find anything on this with DuckDuckGo or this forums.

Thank you

fohdeesha

if it will take RPMs, you can probably use this method https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/wiki/Guest-Tools#install-the-linux-guest-tools-on-an-unsupported-distro

stormi

Actually openSUSE is supported by the installer script so the standard method should work.

Soarin

@stormi

@stormi said in XCP Guest Tools SUSE Linux:

Actually openSUSE is supported by the installer script so the standard method should work.

Hi, I tried that and I get this error:

@stormi said in XCP Guest Tools SUSE Linux:

Actually openSUSE is supported by the installer script so the standard method should work.

I'm using openSUSE Leap instead of SUSE Enterprise Linux which works with the installer, but after getting SLES Xen tools it still reports I have no tools and no icon shows up on my VM list.

xo-server 5.50.0
Xen Orchestra server
xo-web 5.50.0
Xen Orchestra web client

Thank you both so far for the help

olivierlambert

Please see our doc here: https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/wiki/Guest-Tools#install-the-linux-guest-tools-on-an-unsupported-distro

stormi

@olivierlambert said in XCP Guest Tools SUSE Linux:

Please see our doc here: https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/wiki/Guest-Tools#install-the-linux-guest-tools-on-an-unsupported-distro

That's what @fohdeesha said already

olivierlambert

Missed that but in the mean time, @Soarin didn't try with the extra flag

Soarin

@olivierlambert I did ./install.sh -d sles -m 14 and it installed but didn't report back to the panel

olivierlambert

Double check the service is started

Soarin

@olivierlambert It wasn't but I had reinstalled it just now and this is the output:

It seems to changed the memory to dynamic on the XO Web but no icon still on the panel

stormi

The name of the service is xe-linux-distribution.service if the installation script detected systemd, else /etc/init.d/xe-linux-distribution.

Ivan

@stormi
I've installed xen-tools manually on openSuSE 15.1
can start manually

systemctl start xe-linux-distribution.service

but can't enable and add to startupscript

systemctl enable xe-linux-distribution.service
xe-linux-distribution.service is not a native service, redirecting to systemd-sysv-install.
Executing: /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable xe-linux-distribution
/sbin/insserv: No such file or directory

Should I create systemctl startup script from scratch or possible can I copy somewhere?

stormi

First I'd try to see why it says that xe-linux-distribution.service is not a native service. Where's that file located and what does it contain?

Ivan

@stormi It's located on /etc/init.d/xe-linux-distribution
and looks like it's SysV service, not systemctl, because I can not enable

xe-linux-distribution.service is not a native service, redirecting to systemd-sysv-install.

Executing: /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable xe-linux-distribution
/sbin/insserv: No such file or directory

stormi

Maybe /sbin/insserv is located elsewhere and needs a symlink, or maybe it's included in a package that you haven't installed?

Ivan

@stormi said in XCP Guest Tools SUSE Linux:

/sbin/insserv
Thank you.

zypper in insserv-compat

installation help

Ivan

Looks like tools not work on OpenSuSE Tumbleweed

zypper se xe-guest-utilities-7.10.0-1.x86_64

Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

systemctl status xe-linux-distribution.service 
● xe-linux-distribution.service - LSB: Virtual Machine daemon providing host integration services
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/xe-linux-distribution; generated; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (exited) since Wed 2019-11-06 22:47:57 AEDT; 54s ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 1329 ExecStop=/etc/init.d/xe-linux-distribution stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 1334 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/xe-linux-distribution start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

But looks like xcp-ng center not show tools

stormi

Could you also check with the xe vm-param-list uuid=YOUR_VM_UUID command?

Ivan

@stormi said in XCP Guest Tools SUSE Linux:

xe vm-param-list uuid=

What's vm-param should I grep?

stormi

PV-drivers-detected