Monday 15 December 2014

Patching XenServer 6.2

XenServer, unlicensed, can only be patched through the command line interface.

Update manually as follows:

Open the console tab and hit enter as prompted.
Go to the Tools menu and select 'Check for Updates' - the available updates will be listed.
Click on the hyperlink CTXxxxxxx for the oldest available update, this opens up in your default browser.
On the Citrix website this link took you to, copy the shortcut to download the update.
Go back into the console and type >wget **pasted hyperlink **, this downloads the patch to root.
Once the download has completed, >unzip -qq XS62Exxxxxxx.zip, this extracts to a .xsupdate of the same name
>xe patch-upload file-name=XS62Exxxxxxx.xsupdate this will return a hash code of the patch. Copy it.
To apply the uploaded patch enter the following:
>xe patch-apply uuid=**pasted hash** host-uuid=**server hash**
Where the server hash can be copied from the General tab.

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