One of my biggest gripes with Xenserver is the management utility, XenCenter, from Citrix is Windows only. My laptop runs Fedora, with a Windows VM, but I’d prefer a web GUI.  Don’t get me wrong, XenCenter is well done and for certain things I still find myself using it.

Then I stumbled upon Xen Orchestra.  Initially I tried the appliance, XOA, and watched it mature over a number of months.  However, some of the features I wanted to try were limited to the “Premium” version.  Then I discovered that the developers want to support little guys like me and provide the full features if you compile from sources. Sweet!

Their manual provides instructions for a Debian based host, but I prefer Centos 7.  I patched together a couple scripts to help. One automates the install, the other automates the upgrade.  My original upgrade script was VERY basic, but then I found a much better one on the internet somewhere, but I lost the reference or I’d give you a shout out….sorry.