Please ignore my previous post, titled “Path for ISO’s on XenServer 5.5″. That was typed in such rush.

For those of you wanting to store your ISO’s on the Xen server itself and not some remote location on NFS (I find it odd how Citrix is really pushing that method to the extreme), this is what works for me:

Simply scp your ISO’s to “/var/opt/xen/iso_import” on the Xen server.
From googling around, I see most people resort to restarting their server or detach/retach the storage to have XenCenter show those newly uploaded ISO’s. If you can’t afford having it restarted, then read on…
After you uploaded your ISO’s, do:

xe sr-list

This will list all your storage devices. Look for the one that is your local storage and copy the uuid from it. Next do:

xe sr-scan uuid=YOUR_UUID_HERE

This will rescan your local storage.

Now check XenCenter and you will see your new ISO’s there ready to be used.

Checkout xbmc.org
Its a MUCH better media center than Enna. Have been using it for almost 2 months now and I’m completely loving it.

I recently looked into setting up a media center at home. I installed Mythbuntu, purely because I wanted things to be as easy as possible, but still it was not easy enough. MythTV seems good for PVR or normal TV usage, but I just wanted to play media stored on my external hard drives, something MythTV doesn’t like that much.

I started looking for something else, even looked at Freevo, but ended up with Enna.

I went into the Mythbuntu control center and disabled the front and backend for mythtv and also disabled the autostart for mythtv. Added the Enna repo and installed it.

Not only does the default skin for Enna look amazing, the flow of things are much better than mythtv.
There is a config file for Enna, but there’s no need to configure things like storage paths. Simply start Enna and start browsing to wherever you want to be.

It also fetches data automatically for your series and movies, which is a great plus, because I wasn’t going to do that myself and its pretty to look at.

Next thing I’ll look at is GeexBox when I get a tv/dvb card. Its the alternative to MythTV, also being able to watch tv and record and it still uses the great looking interface from Enna.

So… for reasons unbeknowning to mankind, trying to find the path where you can store your ISO’s on XenServer is amazingly difficult. After trying various combos on google and Citrix’s own site, I eventually found a site pointing it out: http://www.tillett.info/2009/09/23/adding-iso-repository-under-xenserver-5-5/

The path is at: /var/opt/xen/iso_import

BTW, slocate isn’t installed and when I tried using find, that path didn’t pop up… probably because I was searching for XenServer.iso thinking it would work in the same folder…

Also check here: http://docs.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer/5.0.0/1.0/en_gb/guest.html#iso_windows-where_to_put_it