Far from being as detailed as everyone above but just to leave some contribution to the 'Non-server' topic, here are some experiences that I've had.

Everything is already outdated, but it might be useful as some reference anyway.

I have a client running a pair of XCP-ngs 8.1 on Ryzen 7 1800X w/ Gigabyte AB350M-GAMING 3 motherboards, Kingston consumer grade SSDs (almost all the write disk activity goes to a NAS), doing HA with halizard nosan version (DRBD to synchronize storage) for years without a hitch. We have even moved the servers to another location, syncing them through an EoIP vpn with virtually no downtime.

And I have just assembled a Ryzen 5700G with an Asus B550M TUF Plus motherboard and XCP-ng 8.2.1 for a homelab. The new AM5 is still a bit expensive in Brazil for a homelab, and I didn't needed too much cpu power anyway, mostly memory and storage. I had an issue with the RTL8125B NIC (just now I noticed the very first message states the same) but adding an Intel NIC made everything perfectly fine.

@olivierlambert

Oh my, can't believe was that easy and I was fiddling around for hours with citrix links. In Brazil we would say "if this was a snake, you would be dead by now".

Thank you!

Just to give some closure that might help others, the issue was indeed realted to Networking.

I'm running the 8.2.1-test3 because I've started with a motherboard that has a RTL8125B NIC. Tried to switch to 8.3-alpha witht he same result, switched back to 8.2.1.-test3 and got an Intel 82574L NIC, now everything is working perfectly fine. The network speed of all VMs has actually increased significantly (this was another issue with the RTL8125B).

@olivierlambert

Oh my, can't believe was that easy and I was fiddling around for hours with citrix links. In Brazil we would say "if this was a snake, you would be dead by now".

Thank you!

Hi everyone!

I'm sorry from reviving a relatively old topic, but would any of you be kind to share the mentioned citrix agent with me? I'm having issues with a Windows VM and I would like to try a different set of agent/drivers.

thanks!

Far from being as detailed as everyone above but just to leave some contribution to the 'Non-server' topic, here are some experiences that I've had.

Everything is already outdated, but it might be useful as some reference anyway.

I have a client running a pair of XCP-ngs 8.1 on Ryzen 7 1800X w/ Gigabyte AB350M-GAMING 3 motherboards, Kingston consumer grade SSDs (almost all the write disk activity goes to a NAS), doing HA with halizard nosan version (DRBD to synchronize storage) for years without a hitch. We have even moved the servers to another location, syncing them through an EoIP vpn with virtually no downtime.

And I have just assembled a Ryzen 5700G with an Asus B550M TUF Plus motherboard and XCP-ng 8.2.1 for a homelab. The new AM5 is still a bit expensive in Brazil for a homelab, and I didn't needed too much cpu power anyway, mostly memory and storage. I had an issue with the RTL8125B NIC (just now I noticed the very first message states the same) but adding an Intel NIC made everything perfectly fine.

Just to give some closure that might help others, the issue was indeed realted to Networking.

I'm running the 8.2.1-test3 because I've started with a motherboard that has a RTL8125B NIC. Tried to switch to 8.3-alpha witht he same result, switched back to 8.2.1.-test3 and got an Intel 82574L NIC, now everything is working perfectly fine. The network speed of all VMs has actually increased significantly (this was another issue with the RTL8125B).

@olivierlambert I thought that at first, but then I did the following test:
Rebooted the VM, never touched the console tab, not even to check the boot status, connected through RDP and the same happened (screen frozen after a few seconds, ~1 minute). It seems that the more I move around the RDP screen (i.e. more traffic to update the screen), the quicker it frozen.

Hi everyone!

I'm new to this forum as a subscriber, but I have been following the project for quite some time and I have a couple of XCP-ngs deployed, so stable and reliable that I don't usually even remember they exist. Last week I have deployed a new one to use as Homelab but I'm facing an odd issue.

It's a XCP-ng 8.2.1, fully updated, and XOA Community also fully updated.

When deploying a Windows 10 VM, everything works perfectly fine, I can access the VM using RDP, the console in XOA also works. Then when I install XCP-ng Guest Tools, it breaks the RDP connection. I can still connect, but the screen freezes after a few seconds, sometimes almost a minute. If I check the console, the VM is still running, I can login, the apps are still open. I can connecto to RDP again, but the same behavior repeats (screen freezes and RDP connection is dropped). Exactly the same happens with Citrix Guest Tools.

It's local environment, so no routing or firewall rules involved. It's a consumer grade equipment (Ryzen 5700G), but similar to something I have already used in the past. I have already tried to enable/disable viridian, enable/disable iommu, enable/disable C-States, enable/disable SR-IOV, switch the network card (E1000/RTL8139).

No erros in Windows Event Viewer.

Any tips where else I could try to look to debug this?

Thank you,
Carlos