[ale] XenServer 7.x problem - anyone else using it?

Niel Bornstein nbornstein at gmail.com
Tue Aug 9 11:55:00 EDT 2016


Aha!

http://docs.citrix.com/content/dam/docs/en-us/xenserver/xenserver-7-0/downloads/xenserver-7-0-vm-users-guide.pdf

"‡Customers should note that the Btrfs filesystem, the default in SLES
12, is not supported by XenServer. Customers should instead select a
supported filesystem such as EXT3 or EXT4 for the /boot partition."

On 08/09/2016 10:49 AM, Beddingfield, Allen wrote:
> Interesting update to this:
> 
> The problem ONLY occurs if I use Btrfs.  If I use XFS, it works as expected.  
> What INSIDE a VM could possibly mess with the underlying LVM volumes for the virtualization host?  
> As strange as it seems, I can readily duplicate it.
> 
> Allen B.
> 


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