Get VM OS type

Hello Folks Is there a way to know whether the VM is running on Windows or Linux OS? I can't reply on OS type because we can use Ubuntu as OS type for Windows VM. Even though the os type is Linux/Ubuntu, the VM is running on Windows version. Another way is to open the console and see the login scr

Re: Get VM OS type

> version. Another way is to open the console and see the login screen. > This will get the actual data but I want to do automation to see for > all VM's and opening the console is not feasible to automate. Is > there any other way to get it? Are the VMs networked? You could fetch their public I

Re: Get VM OS type

Another solution is to ping a VM and check the TTL value. Due to slightly different TCP/IP implementation on each OS-family, you can identify the OS family by checking this table On Mon, Jun 17, 2019, 12:44 Riepl, Gregor (SWISS TXT) < gregor.ri...@

[DISCUSS] Move to JDK 11 (LTS) after 4.13

All, JDK 8 (lts) has already reached EOL and we're dependent on distro/maintainers and the next available LTS jdk is JDK 11. Here's the proposal: - Use JDK8 for building 4.13 and let users decide if they want to run/use JDK8 (jre) or JDK 11 (jre) for cloudstack management/usage/agent servic

Redundant VR Guest IPs

Hi, When using RVRs, the guest VMs still see the VR IP instead of the VIP for a number of things: * DHCP Server * Static NAT source IP for hairpin NAT Just wondering what the reason is for this, as it causes a number of issues: * Password reset doesn't work if active VR has changed since VM boot

Re: Redundant VR Guest IPs

Hi Richard, You've probably found an implementational bug. I think the VIP should be used for both source NAT, password, user-data and dhcp/dns services. Regards, Rohit Yadav Software Architect, ShapeBlue https://www.shapeblue.com From: Richard Lawley Sent

Re: Get VM OS type

Thanks a lot for your replies. @Riepl nmap -sS -O does help in fetching the OS type only if they have public ip. I cant ssh into the machines because they are customer machines and I dont have credentials for them. @Nikolaos ping didnt work for me all the time because few VM's have blocked ping

Re: Get VM OS type

> @Riepl > nmap -sS -O does help in fetching the OS type only if they have > public ip. I cant ssh into the machines because they are customer > machines and I dont have credentials for them. We had such a situation a few times, and simply asked the affected customer if they would permit us to de

XEN scheduled snapshots many processes

Hi, We’re using Xenserver 7.0 as Hypervisor and Pre-Setup storage (lvm over ScaleIO). I can see the number of processes increasing day by day in our Xenserver hosts. I don’t know if it is expected but on each snapshot scheduled xenserver creates new processes. For each lv created kernel show up