XenCenter does not show IP addresses for VM

[Nurlan Mukhanov]

1. Installed new VM from ISO

2. Installed XenTools -  - can see IP address under Networks tab

2. Took snapshot.

3. Converted to template

4. Created new VM from template. CAN'T see IP address under Networks tab

 

[Nurlan Mukhanov]

BUT 

xe vm-list params=name-label,networks

shows IP addresses.

[Nurlan Mukhanov]

restarting VM or reinstalling XenTools does not help.

 

XenCenter won't show IP addresses for new VM created from template

[Nurlan Mukhanov]

Hi,

 

is any from Citrix support will confirm or discard this issue?

[Nurlan Mukhanov]

Attaching new interface to VM solves issue,

but after removing just added interface, old one becomes UNKNOWN

[Alan Lantz]

For Citrix support its best to open a ticket with them via purchased support. Someone from Citrix might chime in, but now that they have been through a couple of major staff reductions this year with some great staff lost, I'm not sure who is left that checks on the forums. But I digress, back to your issue. I've never done a template with a private network. I wonder if thats where the "glitch" is coming in. If so you could make a template without a network and add it manually after you create your VM.

 

--Alan--

[Tobias Kreidl]

Sounds like a gateway issue to me, as well. Run "route -n" on your XenServer and see if your gateway shows up. YOu'll also need to make sure your network switch is set up to be able to route packets to external networks.

-=Tobias

[Salim Hurjuk]

I think so you might have forgot to run sysprep on VM from which Template is created.

[Nurlan Mukhanov]

Thanks guys!

 

Problem solved with removing old interface and adding new with NEW MAC address.

When removing interface and adding it again, XenCenter keeps old MAC address even if choose generate new.

[Salim Hurjuk]

Hi Nurlan...

 

For This You need to do sysprep on VM for which you going to create Template

[Don Schaefer]

I know this is an old thread, but I just started having this problem on VM's that have been in service for a long time.   So it isn't a sysprep issue at all.  The network on the VM's is up and running, its just weird that Xencenter doesn't know what the IP address is all of a sudden.  I restarted Xencenter, but that didn't change anything.

[Michael Cropper]

Just came across this thread looking for an answer to the same solution. What I did notice is that a VM that is connected to the main NIC network doesn't have an IP address showing in XenCenter, but when you create an External Network for the server, then add that External Network to the VM in addition to the main NIC network, the IP address shows up for the VM against the External Network connection - but the main NIC network against that VM still shows as 'Unknown'. 

 

Not sure if that solves the issue for anyone, but it may help.