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While trying to mount a CIFs share folder you receive the following error: mount error(13): Permission denied Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) In addition to above, you can see in logs the following error messages if you have enabled verbose mode (-vvv) kernel: [16984.537149] Status code returned 0xc000006d NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE kernel: [16984.537157] CIFS VFS: Send error in SessSetup = -13 kernel: [16984.537346] CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -13 That Read more...
It is important to note there is a correlation between all the parameters Memory limits must satisfy: static_min ≤ dynamic_min = dynamic_max = static_max To modify the memory configuration for a Virtual machine in XEN through the cli commands you will have to stop the server # xe vm-shutdown name-label="machine name" Review the current memory configuration with # xe vm-list params=all name-label="machine name" | grep memory you have to find the uuid of the machine, that can be showed Read more...
If you have an issue booting your xen 5 because you have loose MBR information, here is how you can restore it very quickly. Proceed booting your server with a live cd distribution, like wifiSlax, and run the next commands. mount the necessary partitions in your harddisk to have / and /boot mounted. Let's say you have sda1 assigned to boot and sda2 to root partition. # mount /dev/sda2 /mnt # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot or like in my case, mount your RAID1 partitions to access to yor root Read more...
Sometimes we would like to access directly to the data of a XEN virtual machine just mounting the volume that act as physical device in the virtual machine, instead of booting it with a recovery cd, like in case of a faulty change in a configuration file inside the VM. Be careful!, this must be run stopping first the virtual machine. Let's start checking the name of the physical volume containing a linux virtual machine inside (it works with windows data, but check NTFS support in XEN first). [root@xenserver2 Read more...