The great Leo Laporte hosted Ian Pratt from Xen to discuss the XenHypervisor this week. Listen to it below

Xen Podcast

This is awesome.  Thanks to Steve Greenburg for tweeting it.  This was a moderated debate between Simon Crosby of Citrix and Scott Drummonds of Vmware around Hypervisor performance.
Watch the video here

For anyone following these 2 organizations you are well aware that they often trade jabs on their blogs.  This was just great to watch.  Simon is such a great debater, and speaker.

As a frequent user and implementer of XenServer I was thrilled to see some supporting documentation, and discussion around Hypervisor performance.

Kudos to Simon for keeping up the debate. Scott appeared pretty uncomfortable.

I was working with a customer cloning XenApp servers running under XenServer.  We were using XenAppPrep to prepare the images for cloning, then using Newsid to change the SID and the server name.

Newsid was crashing about halfway through the process when it got to the registry key for “IMA”.  The process would simply disappear with a DR Watson in the event log. After some quick googling i came across some links that spoke of the issue on 64 bit windows but not on 32 bit.

I did some additional research on Citrix and came up with the following article

This article made perfect sense.

We ran at from the command prompt to launch newsid and it ran successfully.  I have never run across this with Newsid before so I am curious why this happened. Hopefully it saves someone else some time.