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Local ISO storage on XenServer

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 [...]

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XBMC

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.

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Enna MediaCenter – better than MythTV

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 [...]

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Path for ISO’s on XenServer 5.5

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 [...]

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