Install XenServer 6.1 from USB stick
Posted by admin | Posted in Technical | Posted on 29-09-2012-05-2008
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Since I know alot of people with a Home lab I am going to post how I upgraded to XenServer 6.1 since my home lab does not have a CD/DVD drive installed in it. This is probably not recommended for production boxes so please do this at your own risk.
Things you will need….
- XenServer 6.1 (Release 9/28/2012)
- UNetbootin (Download Link)
- 2GB Flash Drive or bigger
Setup Bootable Flash Drive
- Plug in Flash Drive
- Open Up UNetbootin
- Browse out to location of XenServer ISO image
- Make sure UNetbootin selects the correct drive
- Hit ok
- Wait until UNetbootin finishes installing on the thumb drive (took about 5 minutes to complete)
- Eject from system
Install XenServer
- Plug in Flash Drive to XenServer
- Boot the XenServer from the Flash Drive
- Select Other
- Boot to the XenServer 6.1 Media
- Install XenServer as normal
I tried that on my server and I got “Invalid or corrupt kernel image”…
Looks like I’m gonna need to get one of those external CD-ROM drives…