Connecting to a Linux console in XenServer is is easy as xl console, but slightly more difficult with a Windows VM since the terminal can’t display the Windows GUI. SSH tunneling and VNC to the rescue. First, grab the VNC port the Windows VM uses with the following command. You’ll need the dom-id of the Windows VM. xl list or xe vm-list name-label=YourWindowsNameLabel params=dom-id to find it. ...
I experienced a weird time sync issue today with my Windows VMs. I went to stream something to my PS3 from a network share, but I received an error. I thought the share had just lost connection and I needed to reconnect it. When I tried that I received a couple errors, extended error or something and an error stating the time in Windows was different than the server I was trying to connect to. That’s when I noticed the date being reported was 9/12/12, which was 3 days behind. I logged into my DC and tried to sync with a couple Internet time servers, but those still resulted in a date that was 3 days behind. Manually changing the time and date resulted in Windows completely ignoring what I entered and going back to 9/12/12. ...