In case anyone else runs into this. I noticed that both XenServer 6.5 and 7.0 crash at the memory scrubbing stage during boot up when run as a VM within VMware Workstation (and possibly other virtualization products too – I didn’t try it with anything else).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Am guessing the crash happens because the memory is not really available (this being a nested VM) and so the process crashes. Anyhoo, the workaround is to disable memory scrubbing. Check this blog post<\/a> for instructions.\u00a0<\/p>\n In brief, the instructions are to add the option\u00a0 In case anyone else runs into this. I noticed that both XenServer 6.5 and 7.0 crash at the memory scrubbing stage during boot up when run as a VM within VMware Workstation (and possibly other virtualization products too – I didn’t try it with anything else).\u00a0 Am guessing the crash happens because the memory is … Continue reading Nested XenServer crashes when scrubbing memory<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[657,183],"tags":[704,705,703],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}bootscrub=false<\/code> to the boot options. This is via the file\u00a0\/boot\/extlinux.conf<\/code> in XenServer 6.5; or via\u00a0\/boot\/grub\/grub.cfg<\/code> in XenServer 7.0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"