{"id":114,"date":"2013-01-18T10:21:24","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T16:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gimpland.org\/now\/?p=114"},"modified":"2013-02-06T22:23:23","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T04:23:23","slug":"citrix-xenserver-6-1-xenserver-tools-out-of-date-version-6-0-installed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gimpland.org\/now\/2013\/01\/citrix-xenserver-6-1-xenserver-tools-out-of-date-version-6-0-installed\/","title":{"rendered":"Citrix XenServer 6.1 &#8211; XenServer Tools out of date (version 6.0 installed)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Recently we upgraded our XenServer resource pool to 6.1 because the new feature allowing you to do live migration of VDI&#8217;s sounds unreal. \u00a0I still get\u00a0amazed\u00a0that this stuff works, well most of the time. \u00a0Now we are having issues with XenTools reporting to be out of date in XenCenter, I see the message:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>XenServer Tools out of date (version 6.0 installed)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Great, I&#8217;ll just pop the XenTools CD in, uninstall the old version, and install the new version. \u00a0Nope, that does not work. \u00a0Instead it makes the issues worst, as you try and reboot the system but XenServer never figures out the server is shutdown and you end up having to do\u00a0vm-reset-powerstate or even destroy the domain. \u00a0Either way this sucks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Citrix just updated it&#8217;s <a title=\"XenServer Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.citrix.com\/2012\/12\/18\/xenserver-xentools\/\">XenServer blog<\/a> yesterday acknowledging the issues with XenTools is real and they will try and fix their processes. \u00a0And they are right, this sort of thing really does hurt your\u00a0confidence in the system. \u00a0And we all know virtualization\u00a0is built on\u00a0confidence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now <a href=\"http:\/\/support.citrix.com\/article\/CTX135099\">here<\/a> is the real place to get all the info on what needs to happen. \u00a0It&#8217;s a two part update, first you need to apply hot fix\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/support.citrix.com\/article\/CTX136252\">XS61E009<\/a>\u00a0and then\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/support.citrix.com\/article\/CTX136253\">XS61E010<\/a>. \u00a0Then you have the fun of\u00a0updating XenTools. \u00a0But lots of work non the less when you have 10s, 100s, 1000s of VMs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">http:\/\/support.citrix.com\/article\/CTX135099<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/support.citrix.com\/article\/CTX136252<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/support.citrix.com\/article\/CTX136253<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>*UPDATE*<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If you run in to <strong>blue screen<\/strong> on Windows while installing the new XenTools from the XS61E010&#8230; I know more issues?? \u00a0If you can get into safe mode to remove xentools from the machine and reinstall, that may work. \u00a0Other wise you can try looking yup your VMs UUID and changing the device ID. \u00a0This may work if your VM does not get the correct device ID set\u00a0during\u00a0the new xentools install. 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