Citrix XenClient Best Practices Series – Get rid of the “XenClient Tools not installed” Alert

If you hoover over the icon, a message will tell you that the XenClient tools are not installed in this VM. I don’t want to encourage you to not install the XenClient tools in the VM – these tools are great they will enable your VM to work in full speed by installing paravirtualized drivers and service to allow USB management and much more. In a managed and supported environment these tools are a must!

However you may want to use an operating systems which isn’t supported yet or a version of an OS where the tools wont install…

One of the great things about XenClient is, that not supported doesn’t mean not working – HVM mode let install pretty anything you want. But again there’s always this little alert which to remind you.

Step by Step

Let’s assume you created a Linux VM with a Distro which isn’t supported. Because Linux Tools are kernel modules there are some dependencies which are not always easy to resolve. In my example I’ve just installed BackTrack, my favorite security distro, and I didn’t bother installing XenClient tools, this will be the result:

To learn more and to read the entire article at its source, please refer to the following page, XenClient Best Practices Series – Get rid of the “XenClient Tools not installed” alert- The Citrix Blogs