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Citrix XEN VM Boot Error code: INVALID_SOURCE Unable to Boot from CD/DVD

You have installed Citrix Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) and configured it (including network, templates, OS ISO’s etc.; even you have created your first VM with the help of documentation provided by Citrix but when you try to boot your VM for first time it throws following error as Citrix is not able to boot the VM from CD/DVD drives which are attached to it.

[root@xcp1-slave2 iso]# xe vm-start uuid=5ce47d4e-227c-9d1e-4710-21b7c998318e
Error code: INVALID_SOURCE
Error parameters: Unable to access a required file in the specified repository: file:///tmp/cdrom-repo-vIHKIE/install.amd/xen/vmlinuz., ,

The problem here is the boot order for the VM is not properly set (through Template) at the time of VM creation and VM remains Halted

 

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  1. Beatseed
    December 7, 2011 at 9:20 am | #1

    and how you resolve this problem?

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