I have been running a v9 Sophos UTM virtual machine for many months on vmWare ESXi. I'm now trying to migrate it to XenServer 6.5. I created a new VM from scratch on XenServer and imported the settings into Sophos from a backup I'd taken from the old machine. New VM's IP addresses are the same as the old VM's.
I shut down the ESXi Sophos VM )so there should be no IP address conflicts) and started up the new XenServer VM and initially all seemed OK. But pretty quickly the VM started freezing. At first we noticed this by the internet connectivity, but then noticed that activity on the console also kept freezing - sometimes you can't even type anything on the console command line as it's frozen and unresponsive for a few minutes.
I don't really know where to start looking into this. One thing I suspect is that I had to base the XenServer VM on Oracle Linux 7 - the Sophos documentation says to use "Linux 64bit or SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 64bit" but when I tried to boot a SUSE-based VM the boot failed every time with this:
[FONT="Courier New"][SIZE="2"]"Failed","Starting VM 'Sophos'
Internal error: xenopsd internal error: VM = b6c5fbd0-9032-0811-c41a-e65ffae16b86; domid = 15; Bootloader.Bad_error Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/eliloader", line 1153, in ?
sys.exit(main())
File "/usr/bin/eliloader", line 1143, in main
handle_first_boot(vm, img, args, other_config)
File "/usr/bin/eliloader", line 870, in handle_first_boot
kernel, ramdisk = sles_first_boot_handler(vm, repo_url, other_config)
File "/usr/bin/eliloader", line 677, in sles_first_boot_handler
fetchFile(vmlinuz_url, vmlinuz_file, pv_kernel_max_size)
File "/usr/bin/eliloader", line 316, in fetchFile
raise ResourceNotFound, source
__main__.ResourceNotFound
Time: 00:00:30","xen2.edwards.local","Jul 1, 2015 8:26 PM"[/SIZE][/FONT]
Do you think this may be the cause of the problem? Could basing the VM on the wrong linux cause behaviour like this? If so, does anyone have any advice on how to get the VM set up on XenServer (v6.5)?
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