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At the disk partitioning stage make sure to replace Ext4 with Ext3, or create a specific boot partition with Ext3

Select at least the OpenSSH server package to be able to log in to the VM remotely

Finish installation and boot the VM

Connect to the VM using SSH

sudo cp /etc/init/tty1.conf /etc/init/hvc0.conf sudo vi /etc/init/hvc0.conf

Replace all occurrences of tty1 with hvc0

Read /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Copy the contents of menuentry near the bottom to a temporary text file, to be used as input for the makepv.sh script that we will use later on menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-21-server' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { recordfail insmod ext2 set root='(hd0,1)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 02899ea9-1876-4e7b-8ef8-2b09b598cedb linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-server root=UUID=02899ea9-1876-4e7b-8ef8-2b09b598cedb ro quiet initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-21-server }

Make special note of /boot/vmlinuz…, root=UUID=… and /boot/initrd.img…

Shutdown the VM

Connect to the XenServer host with SSH

Run the makepv.sh script, replacing my-vm-name with the actual name of your VM

Boot the VM and log in with SSH

In XenCenter, attach xs-tools.iso to the DVD drive of the VM

sudo mount /dev/cdrom1 /mnt sudo dpkg -i /mnt/Linux/xe-guest-utilities_5.5.0-466_amd64.deb sudo umount /mnt

In XenCenter, detach xs-tools.iso from the DVD drive of the VM (this ensures that XenServer does not complain about too many bootable devices)

Reboot the VM and log in with SSH

sudo update-rc.d -f xe-linux-distribution remove sudo update-rc.d xe-linux-distribution defaults

Reboot the VM for the last time