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

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    ForzaF
    @poddingue I'm using XOA 6.2.2. Unfortunately not able to update at the moment. Which reminds me of another thing. Where is there release information for the XOA XVA itself? When I login to my account, there is only the download button but no information on what version it is. [image: image.jpeg] I would like to know when a new version is published and a changelog for it. When I import the current XVA it is tagged with 2025.12 [image: image.jpeg]

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

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    I ran into the same problem with DR replicas. Ignoring VMs by tag would solve the problem, but so would excluding the ip address information.

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

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    acebmxerA
    Latest commit fixed the synchronized snapshots showing up as a vm... Commit 8c2f3 [image: Screenshot_20261005_060854.png]

  • Everything related to Xen Orchestra's REST API

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    poddingueP
    Pretty cool, @samuelolavo, thanks for clarifying!

  • Terraform, Packer or any tool to do IaC

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    bvitnikB
    @bug-meister Ah. That's cloud-init's support for templating user-data. The issue is that with these templates you only have access to the info available inside the VM itself. No outside data can be used for templating unless it is somehow passed to the VM (inject a file, set xenstore values...)
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    XOA vs XO vs Backup feature

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    @kagbasi-ngc Hi, thanks for your thoughts. I get on well with Linux myself - I’m using XO from source following the documentation, and actually, Ronivay’s script, as you mentioned, makes it all even handier. Still, I can’t help but think - your average home user, a total amateur, is just going to land on the XCP-ng host homepage and click "Deploy XOA". And then they’ve no backup, outside of the trial period. But sure, if XOA is aimed squarely at business and enterprise users with paid licences, fair enough that makes perfect sense. I just feel like backup isn’t really a purely business or enterprise feature, unlike, say, proxy instances or hyper-converged storage. It's something even home users would genuinely benefit from. But as it is mentioned above, that’s just how it’s set up - and like you said yourself, everyone’s got the chance to learn something new. And sure, in the age of AI chatbots, there’s really no excuse not to manage it
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    XO and XCP-ng pricing

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    @DustinB Been using it since 2012, non-profits fell under the academic tier and it was originally by number of cpu which was 2 cpu per host, under 192G ram but again didnt include vmotion etc, just plain ole esxi why I used Veeam since it brought replication into the mix again still using them at a very low cost. They had essentials and essentials plus and the academic pricing was very low, my understanding is they would rather you use VMware vs something else. Again I have receipts going back to 2012, pretty much same price for all these years until Broadcom entered the picture. There was nothing sus about it, you had to verify your non-profit category and fit within the limts, it was pretty standard pricing for a low number of cores, I could go to CDW or any reseller and get the same pricing. Why you have so many small companies jumping ship many were using vmware essentials which was WAY cheaper then what they are doing now which the only option is Standard and it now requires min of 16 cores per host @$50/core. That is the new and wonderful world of Broadcom... Anyway, this was pretty common stuff under VMware, why so many folks were using it, even the small shops.
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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: 9d25866e-a8b8-4bd6-85ac-bcb5973fd6fc-image.png] By the BCK_Running tag, it is backed up [image: 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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    AtaxyaNetworkA
    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...