@encryptblockr hope to try the same with their even smaller "CORE" images. There is not an .OVA download but .xz downloads that when expanded have .img .

https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-core/22/stable/current/ubuntu-core-22-amd64.img.xz

and

https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-core/22/stable/current/ubuntu-core-22-amd64+intel-iot.img.xz

cloud-init seems to require experimentation and these small images boot quickly for me.

Are you then following Fohdeesha's instructions?

@olivierlambert I just saw Tom post about that. Already investigating about it. Thanks!
https://infosec.exchange/@tomlawrence/109404324178466606

@encryptblockr Did the new 2022-11-24 images work better?
Did you remember to install cloud-initramfs-growroot ?

packages:

xe-guest-utilities cloud-initramfs-growroot cloud-initramfs-rescuevol

@ronivay said in Forgot password for the webgui:

/opt/xo/xo-server/dist/recover-account-cli.mjs admin@admin.net

Thanks, it works 🙂

@lawrencesystems
thank you tom! really appreciate this!
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seems that it is running without issues!

nice, thanks!

It is just relative no value per se

@antoniolfdacruz glad to hear you were able to figure it out 👍

@NeilGrevitt Whilst migrating my other backups to NFS, I noticed that one of the VM backups is able to perform file restores successfully.

The successful VM is Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS, but has been upgraded multiple times and was originally a flavour of 18.x LTS somewhere along it's life.

The unsuccessful VM is Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS that I believe was installed at this version.

The only difference I can see is the output of lvscan, which does point to an issue with LVM!

Successful VM:
:~$ sudo lvscan
:~$

Unsuccesful VM:

:~$ sudo lvscan
ACTIVE '/dev/ubuntu-vg/ubuntu-lv' [<19.00 GiB] inherit

Not sure where to go now but thought it worth reporting!

@mauzilla
Just an FYI, I have not tested the latest Scale 22.12 RC1 for performance but the previous versions of scale under some conditions was quite a bit slower. I have a video covering this topic here with the benchmarks and methodology used for testing.

https://youtu.be/BoiHHnBDg0E

@Steve_Sibilia Yes.

Take a look at a specific snapshot to see the available fields, note snapshot_time which is a Unix timestamp. Use a filter (syntax documentation), example:/rest/v0/vm-snapshots?filter=snapshot_time%3A>1669044124

@MichaelCropper
I recently did a video tutorial on how XCP-NG virtual machine dynamic memory management and over allocation works.

https://youtu.be/Lsi2-hAoKSE

Okay so that's fine on this side.

OK, I think I have resolved my issues with "unused VHD".

Taking a clue from @florent, I started deleting the cache.json.gz files from the storage server for the VMs where I had the "unused VHD" warning during backups.

Then a browser refresh on the Restore page would show a different number of backups available.

I then deleted some of the old backups (that weren't necessarily visible before).

I then started really looking for problems/issues with old backup jobs, deleting the cache.json.gz files for any VMs I had questions about.

Apparently, this has resolved all occurrences of "unused VHD" during backups.

I'll keep monitoring/looking for problems/issues.

Thanks,

G

Thanks all for your comments. I've managed to overcome the NFS errors listed, by using the new "multiple data blocks" setting! So for me, looks like backing up to .vhd won't work on either SMB or NFS.

This is probably something for XO 6 then, let me ask @julien-f in the conversation 🙂

@Andi79 Have you tried using xapi-explore-sr to examine how this VDI may be related to other disks?

@ruskofd have you removed this examples? i got 404.

That's why we put that in bold in our documentation:
Please always use latest Node LTS.

😆

🤔 The chaos is strong with this one 🤔