Ansible playbook to install Xen tools on Linux
XenServer Tools provides high-performance Windows drivers and a management agent, enhancing disk and network performance for XenServer VMs.
XenServer Tools must be installed for each virtual machine (Windows and Linux) in order to be able to use xe CLI or XenCenter, and VM performance will be significantly lowered unless the tools are installed. Without the tools installed, you will not be able to do any the following:
- Cleanly shut down, reboot or suspend a VM.
- View VM performance data in XenCenter.
- Migrate a running VM (via XenMotion).
- Create quiesced snapshots or snapshots with memory (checkpoints), or revert to snapshots.
- Adjust the number of vCPUs on a running Linux VM (Windows VMs require a reboot for this to take effect).
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Github: https://github.com/chetankapoor/ansible-xen-tools
1. Download Xen-tools
You can use the following command to download the xen-tools or visit this link.
wget https://xen-tools.org/software/xen-tools/xen-tools-4.6.2.tar.gz
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2. Ansible playbook to install xen tools
Here is Ansible playbook. You need to change the path according to your path.
---
- hosts: "{{ hosts }}"
remote_user: "{{ user }}"
tasks:
- name: Copy xen tools to the server
copy: src=~/Linux dest=/mnt mode=0777
- name: Install Xen tools
command: sh /mnt/Linux/install.sh
Now you can execute the following command to install the tools.
Note: You must change the hosts’ file, playbook name, hosts and user according to your configuration.
ansible-playbook -i hosts install_xen_tools.yml --extra-vars="hosts=test" --extra-vars="user=root"
Now Xen tools should be installed.
If you have any issue using this tutorial please feel free to comment below.