Monthly Archives: November 2012

XenCenter – Failed to import

I have a problem with my Xencenter failed to import a OVF VM.
In XenCenter console, it just says: Failed to import.

If i look in the log files is was saying: (In XenCenter Console, push tab Help, and then clock on “View application log files. And then open op XenCenter.log):

System.Exception: Failed to import. —> System.IO.InvalidDataException: Failed to add resource Hard Disk Image. —> System.Exception: Failed to import. —> System.Exception: Failed to import virtual disk file. —> System.Xml.XmlException: Root element is missing.

Error on a Danish windows

System.Exception: Failed to import. —> System.IO.InvalidDataException: Failed to add resource Hard Disk Image. —> System.Exception: Failed to import. —> System.Exception: Failed to import virtual disk file. —> System.Xml.XmlException: Rod element mangler.

To fix this problem I did:
In XenCenter, select View -> Hidden Objects
This will show you hidden objects, such as Transfer objects.
Found the failed imported machine, right click on it and delete it.
Now you should found a XenServer Tranfer VM X.X.X-X, right click on it and delete it.

Now connect to the console on the XenServer host: (Master of the pool if you have such one)
And type this commands:

cd /opt/xensource/packages/files/transfer-vm
./install-transfer-vm.sh

Compiling Linux Kernel 3.6.X the debian/ubuntu way for Hyper-V

Here is a guide to compile a kernel 3.6.X kernel for hyper-v the debian way.

sudo apt-get install git-core kernel-package fakeroot build-essential ncurses-dev

#Download the latest kernel
cd /usr/src
sudo wget --continue http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/linux-3.6.6.tar.bz2
sudo tar jxvf linux-3.6.6.tar.bz2
cd linux-3.6.6

#Copy kernel config to the new source
sudo cp /boot/config-`uname -r` ./.config

#Choice what you want
#Hyper-V is locate at: Device Drivers, Microsoft Hyper-V guest support
sudo make menuconfig

#Compile the kernel
sudo make-kpkg clean
sudo fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-hyperv01 kernel_image kernel_headers
cd ..
sudo dpkg -i linux-image-3.6.*
sudo init 6