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Migrate a virtual machine from one platform to another is certainly a critical point. Even more so if the system is Linux, as to the benefits of XenServer diperformance of this type of platform you need to enable paravirtualization, and then change the kernel of the virtual machine.

The procedure is definitely a little 'cumbersome, but on Citrix TV has been published by Brian Ehlert very detailed video that explains step by step all the procedures to modify the kernel of a CentOS 5.2 machine and change the parameters of the virtual machine to work mode Minutes, from a car imported into XenServer via XenConverter.

I refer you to the video for a pleasant vision: enable PV CentOS after import from VMware to XenServer

For those who have the need to migrate a VM SLES 10, Article I refer you to a machine V2V SuSE Linux Enterprise 10 from VMware to XenServer .

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