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  • VMs, hosts, pools, networks and all other usual management tasks.

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    @pkgw Planning an RPU as a whole is a nice idea in theory, but it's inherently designed to co-exist with normal pool management operations (you should still be able to migrate VMs between hosts B and C during it, or start new ones), we are not "pre-booking" memory and other resources for groups of VMs, otherwise it can quickly make the rest of the pool hard to manage while some VM migrations could still be far away. Regarding the narrower case - I'll note this down and see if we can improve things, thank you!

  • ACLs, Self-service, Cloud-init, Load balancing...

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    Is a centralized XOA server "managing" two remote Proxy-fronted XCP clusters supported with the SDN Controller Plugin? We are looking to deploy an architecture similar to this blog post from 2022: https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/xo-proxy-a-concrete-guide/

  • All XO backup features: full and incremental, replication, mirrors...

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    Thanks for checking. That's useful, even if it points away from where I was looking. Clocks within a second of each other means drift probably isn't your problem, and I'd guess the MST/UTC difference is just how dom0 displays it, though I'm not sure. What I keep coming back to is that your full backups fail while the delta jobs on the same hosts never do. That's the same split in https://github.com/vatesfr/xen-orchestra/issues/9181, where full backups hit BodyTimeoutError on VMs with big disks or a lot of free space and the deltas are fine. If your failing VMs look like that, your dates and the MST/UTC detail would do more good on that issue than buried in here. MajorP93 created this issue in vatesfr/xen-orchestra open Full backup fails on large VMs / VMs with lots of free disk space #9181

  • Everything related to Xen Orchestra's REST API

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    Hello I'm pulling stats for all VMs to understand CPU usage. We're a bit behind the curve in terms of XO versions, but these questions hopefully are still relevant. If using a granularity of days, the interval is set to 86400 (understandably) but the endTimestamp varies. Running this on June 9th @ ~1740 we get timestamps for both Mon Jun 8 01:00:00 AM BST 2026 and Tues Jun 9 01:00:00 AM BST 2026. Does this average across the day? Why is the timestamp 0100? Why would there be different timestamps between VMs (all are running) and does that mean that the figures are misaligned in the results? These are retrieved via curl and a bash script, a bit hacky, but for clarity the request is: ++ curl -X GET -s -H accept:application/json -b authenticationToken=[[REDACTED]] -o [[REDACTED]] 'https://[[REDACTED]]/rest/v0/vms/[[REDACTED]]/stats?granularity=days' Really keen to know if we can control the start and endtime, as well as provide a manual interval, as well as the aggregation strategy (min, max, average). Are any of these possible? Lastly, is cpuUsage the percentage as per the dashboard, but averaged over all CPUs? Thanks so much in advance. James

  • Terraform, Packer or any tool to do IaC

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    poddingueP
    The Kubernetes CSI driver for Xen Orchestra just hit v0.4.0, and we want it on more real clusters before it reaches a stable release candidate. If you run Kubernetes on XCP-ng VMs, this is a good time to give it a proper workout. What's new in v0.4.0: Local-storage support Automatic pool-discovery fallback Kubernetes metadata now lives in Xen Orchestra VDI tags instead of the deprecated other_config. That change also drops the old requirement for Xen Orchestra 6.4 or newer, so the driver runs on more deployments now. ️ Read this before you upgrade. v0.4.0 is a breaking change. The Kubernetes metadata moved from other_config to VDI tags, so you must migrate before upgrading from v0.3.0. Do not upgrade in place: follow the v0.3.0 to v0.4.0 migration guide in the release notes, then move to v0.4.0. What helps us most is hearing how it behaves on your own setup: what works, what breaks, which storage backend you use, and which flavour of Kubernetes you run (k3s, full k8s, or something else). Edge cases on real clusters are the ones we don't see in our own testing. Where to report: start right here in this thread. It keeps everything visible to the community and lets others on the same setup jump in. If something turns out to be a reproducible bug, we'll move it to a GitHub issue on the repo so the team can track it to a fix. Release notes and migration guide: https://github.com/vatesfr/xenorchestra-csi-driver/releases/tag/v0.4.0
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    Some weird Alt Gr issue

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    @olivierlambert thank you for your response. Just tested with another laptop : no more issue... Well, we will inform our future users and wait for v6 !
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    Transport-email plugin - oauth for gmail

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    @Pierre-Briec You can try something like Mailjet.
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    XO SocketError: other side closed

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    Excellent news! Thanks for keeping us posted
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    "Management agent not detected" and "No Xen tools detected"

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    @dinhngtu Thank you very much for this. Luckily, these last few 2012 OS's will be mothballed at the end of August, but... sometimes schedules and security don't align.
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    XO one time job scheduler

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    @RS One option would be this, assuming in this se you want to run the job at midnight on Dec. 25: /bin/echo "/path/to/your/script.sh" | at midnight Dec 25 While cron doesn't offer a specific one-time execution, you could also do this in cron but would have to remove the entry afterwards: 0 0 25 12 * /path/to/your/script.sh Also, take a look at this option: https://www.fastcron.com/guides/one-time-cronjobs/
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    CPU Stats bottoming out to Zero every five minutes

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    @DKirk That all makes sense, thanks for clarifying. Looks like there are further comments below that seem to pinpoint where the issue may lay. The key point you make is only "after the last updates" is when this started happening!
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    VGA on Xen Orchestra

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    Olivier, I can say it's worse without the VGA being selected to 16Mb. That option is pretty much a must for any desktop virtualization. The novelty for me is people get far above 1080...
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    Feedback XO v6

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    @lsouai-vates Today I noticed that there is the same in xo5 (commit 25192) Jobs with disabled jobs but scheduled in a sequence job are shown with Not backed up VMs [image: 1747997034588-9d25866e-a8b8-4bd6-85ac-bcb5973fd6fc-image.png] By the BCK_Running tag, it is backed up [image: 1747997147334-f5471bb0-7600-4d6e-ad81-da9c13dfa6bd-image.png]
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    Display Slowness/Lag

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    @ph7 I'm using local software mirror with mdadm. Its both boot and vm storage.
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    Connection failed - Unknown error

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    @olivierlambert Thank you for your response. I have followed most of the documentation on setting up HA, and made sure that I have 3 hosts. All are Dell 7090 64GB RAM with 2 dedicated HA NICS. XCP-ng 8.3 is patched, XO is up to date, Xen tools 9.4.0 on all Windows VMs, and using the Xen tools ISO that can be mounted. eth0 1Gbs management network eth1 10Gbs iSCSI network DAC eth2 10Gbs VLAN Trunk, including backup network eth3 1Gbs HA eth4 1Gbs HA Overall, XCP-ng and XO are doing an excellent job. I feel like I am on an Easter egg hunt when pouring through documentation, but that is mostly my problem, because I see that you have put a lot of effort into organizing and updating it. My "use case" is replacing the VMware ESXi/vSphere 2-node cluster with XCP-ng and XO at the small high school (non-profit) where I volunteer as the IT guy. I feel that I am at the point where I trust XCP-ng and XO enough to make the switch during the summer break. Sorry to run on. The yellow triangles behind the non-master hostnames are just a small nuisance. I do notice that the hosts are hard to shutdown. Sending a shutdown command from either XO or from the host console causes a host to reboot, but not shutdown, even after having previously entered maintenance mode. I feel that this is not a big issue, just another small nuisance. The XO cluster is maintaining the integrity of the guest VMs. I will be reading all of the documentation I can, and upgrading to 8.4 when it is available. Thank you for supporting your awesome hypervisor.
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    RAID Status on the Advanced tab of the host

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    The plugin was initially created to check RAID created during install, not custom RAIDs created manually. But that could be an improvement to the plugin @stormi I leave you the honor to add this somewhere
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    Cannot get to XO Lite portal

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    @Virtual said in Cannot get to XO Lite portal: @olivierlambert So my host IP is 192.168.1.40 and the Xen orchestra IP is 192.168.1.45 To clarify, I was referring to XO 6 Lite. Going to https://192.168.1.40 brings up the page with XoA quick deploy, cli documentation, etc. It doesn’t navigate to XO 6 lite Going to https://192.168.1.45/v6 still gives me the error mentioned in the original post Indeed, as said, there's no such thing as "XO Lite 6". XO Lite is simply "XO Lite" (we'll have a v1 at some point, v6 is like far far in the future ) So yes, https://192.168.1.40 should display XO Lite if you use XCP-ng 8.3 (you can install it manually for 8.2 but it's not bundled by default) And https://192.168.1.45/v6 should display XO 6, only if you built it correctly to get XO 6 components built.
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    Issue Importing Dell PPDM OVA into XOA

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    Edit to my previous post: the script is checking for working DNS, so i cannot pre-setup network. If you want the fixed applicance with the drivers installed, ping me ! To setup the network, you just need to login (root/changeme, yeah the password is... bleh), and launch the script /usr/local/brs/puppet/scripts/install.sh -lui
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    No Alma logo in XO?

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    Hi, I'm pretty sure this is planned to be addressed in XO6. Dan
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    Unable to add host to pool (db mismatch)

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    Could you please provide the output of (for the master and the candidate host): xe host-list params=software-version It does seem odd....
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    XOA web deploy stuck at "Deploying XOA..." No error

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    @RawbDeeni Thank you! I had the same problem using 8.2 lts. I ended up formatting and using 8.3, and I didn't have any issues after that. I'm glad I found a better alternative to use this hypervision from a vmware end user for over 10 years until Broadcom killed it.
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    Multiple AD sources to Xen Orchestra

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    @tuckertt Hello ! We are making some investigations on authentication, users, ACLs etc... topics for the Xen Orchestra 6 version to come. Could you please formalize your need so I can add it to my user suggestions list? Try to make specs as most generic (for all users) as possible, and don't hesitate to add some concrete examples. Have a good day!
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    Host disconnected midway during backup, now unable to start/restart/cancel

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    @jaayb said in Host disconnected midway during backup, now unable to start/restart/cancel: @madrianr had similar issues tried xe vdi-foget uuid and rescanned after that but cannot find the vdi. Any ideas? never mind was able to recover...
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    Console keyboard problems using Firefox

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    For anyone who comes across this, you can just add an exception for your management page and shift will work on the console. Settings > Privacy & Security > Enhanced Tracking Protection > Manage Exceptions > Add the site url e.g. https://xo.fqdn.com.
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    Migrating a Windows VM from Proxmox to XCP-NG

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    Hi, You really need to give more details.