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Solving “Unable to find partition containing kernel”

Posted on Friday, May 29th, 2020Tuesday, June 2nd, 2020 by Rob Hallam

Why isn’t it working it was working just before now it should be working tl;dr: If you’re using the pygrub loader, make sure /boot/grub/ exists! The Error I was updating some virtual servers (Xen DomUs); I shut one (hestia) down, then tried to bring it back up using xl create hestia.cfg. But it didn’t start. […]

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Recovering the Config of a Running Xen DomU

Posted on Wednesday, February 5th, 2020Friday, May 29th, 2020 by Rob Hallam

For those “oh poop” moments I was in a situation where I had a running Xen guest, but the config file that defined the DomU was missing. Fortunately, the listing command (xl list) has a long option, xl list -l, which prints out domain information in JSON format. This includes config information, from which the […]

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