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

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    poddingueP
    I tried this on my lab (with XO 6.9.1), moving the pool master to the other host with xe pool-designate-new-master and then back. XO stayed connected both times and picked up the new master, even though Settings > Servers still showed the old host's address; on the way back it took a minute or two to catch up. I didn't test 6.2.2, and I used the CLI rather than the XO 5 Advanced tab, so my guess that your older version is the difference is only a guess. For the XVA, I'm not aware of release notes for the appliance image itself: it updates itself after import, and the notes that exist are per XO version, in the monthly blog post and the changelog, both linked from https://docs.xen-orchestra.com/getting-started/releases#release-cadence-and-channels . How often the downloadable XVA gets rebuilt I don't know, so the 2025.12 tag may just be the date of the base image, but I'd rather ask than guess.
  • 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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    Hi! We recieved a fix via the support after opening a ticket as suggested. Now the pool metadata backup is running smoothly again. As far as i know 6.9 will become "stable" after 6.10 is released. I'd still suggest a patch for the stable version, unless the new release is a few days. Best wishes Jacob
  • 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...)
  • Can't boot new VM "NO_HOSTS_AVAILABLE"

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    olivierlambertO
    Yes, that's the issue, the max vCPU in Advanced tab. It's probably at 42 while you only have 32 physical CPUs. Therefore, the VM won't boot. See an example screenshot: [image: 8728f260-893b-4601-b8b2-43b39b9d6806-image.png]
  • XOA setup on a completely offline system

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    olivierlambertO
    Hi, We offer air gap services to get you pre-bound XOA without the need for any Internet connection Otherwise, the workflow you used works too (configure XOA with a connected env and then export it). See https://xen-orchestra.com/docs/airgap.html for more details. Also, you can use our airgap deploy script in here: https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/xen-orchestra-5-95/#️-air-gap-features
  • How to add plugins like sdn-controller etc. to my XOA

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    ok thank you!
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  • Reset/Update statistics page fields

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    ah ok, thanks for the information.
  • Problems mounting NFS share

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    DanpD
    @rongage I don't know if anyone else has it working correctly on CentOS Stream 9. I know that it works on recent versions of Debian and Ubuntu, so why not try one of those?
  • Continue (vs restart) an interrupted backup

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    olivierlambertO
    With classical export (ie VHD and without NBD) you cannot "resume" a backup. Now it's possible (technically with NBD) but it's not done (yet). But we improved a lot the retry vs the original backups in VHD.
  • Deployment of XOA

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    I don't "need" to deploy with xo-lite I just wanted to report it in case it was a bug with static ip configuration.
  • Replicating bare metal to VM

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    olivierlambertO
    In theory, like thinking on top of my head, an agent in the physical machine that will be able to replicate the VM files in the same format than the XO backup, with also the "machine metadata" (CPU, RAM etc.). Then, if something goes wrong, you could restore a backup as a VM from the real machine.
  • Windows template sysprep with cloudinit

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    @olivierlambert thanks for the quick reply Olivier, We have cloudinit working for Linux as that is working like a charm, hopefully a MS cloudinit god will reply and will be able to help me out
  • Windows VM gets apipa from tagged network interface, no issues on Linux

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    @Andrew it was related to a switch configuration mistake, thanks anyways.
  • Set Static Memory for VM in XOA

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    olivierlambertO
    Yes, you can ignore static min, 99% of the time it's not relevant.
  • Ran XOA updater, got 'CANNOT GET /', web UI has stopped working.

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    My apologies @Danp , I had misunderstood the comments on the other commands in that KB article. Good news, things are working, but it didn't seem like they would be. xoa run npm i -g --unsafe-perm https://xen-orchestra.com/xoa-updater.tgz Seemed to work. I was then able to run systemctl restart xoa-updater and xoa-updater --upgrade. After the upgrade command, this is the feedback: xoa:xoa$ xoa-updater --upgrade stable channel selected Downloading packages... xen-orchestra 5.95.2 . ok ✔ xo-server-telemetry 0.5.0 ...................................... ok ✔ xen-orchestra-web 0.0.3 ................................................... ok ✔ xo-server-xoa 0.29.0 .................................................................................................................. ok ✔ xo-web-free 5.147.0 ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. ok ✔ xoa-cli 0.38.2 ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................... ok ✔ xen-orchestra-upload-ova 0.1.6 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ok ✔ xo-server 5.145.0 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ok ✔ Following packages will be removed: xoa-updater 0.50.0 Removing packages... Saving current updater version in /usr/local/lib/node_modules/xoa-updater-previous ...ok ✔ xoa-updater ✔ New versions available: node 18.20.2 (18.19.1 installed) npm 10.5.0 (10.2.4 installed) Downloading packages... node 18.20.2 ...... ok ✔ npm 10.5.0 .................................................................................................................................................................. ok ✔ Installing packages... Upgrading Node/npm failed, re-installing old packages Command failed with exit code 1: npm i -g --unsafe-perm --quiet /tmp/xoa-updater/node-18.20.2.tgz npm ERR! code 1 npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/node npm ERR! command failed npm ERR! command sh -c ./installer npm ERR! installing : node-v18.20.2 npm ERR! curl: (28) Failed to connect to nodejs.org port 443 after 261014 ms: Couldn't connect to server npm ERR! npm ERR! Error: download preflight failed for '18.20.2' (https://nodejs.org/dist/v18.20.2/node-v18.20.2-linux-x64.tar.xz) npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: /tmp/.npm/_logs/2024-09-01T16_42_27_685Z-debug-0.log New packages available: xoa-updater 0.50.0 Downloading packages... Installing packages... xoa-updater ✔ xoa-updater ✔ ✖ { message: 'Command failed with exit code 1: npm i -g --unsafe-perm --quiet /tmp/xoa-updater/node-18.20.2.tgz\n' + 'npm ERR! code 1\n' + 'npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/node\n' + 'npm ERR! command failed\n' + 'npm ERR! command sh -c ./installer\n' + 'npm ERR! installing : node-v18.20.2\n' + "npm ERR! curl: (28) Failed to connect to nodejs.org port 443 after 261014 ms: Couldn't connect to server\n" + 'npm ERR! \n' + "npm ERR! Error: download preflight failed for '18.20.2' (https://nodejs.org/dist/v18.20.2/node-v18.20.2-linux-x64.tar.xz)\n" + '\n' + 'npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: /tmp/.npm/_logs/2024-09-01T16_42_27_685Z-debug-0.log' } At this point I thought there was a failure - but then I was able to run systemctl restart xo-server.service and access both the current web UI and the v6 UI. I'm interested in trying the newer v6 features, so I just changed from the stable channel to latest using the web UI and ran upgrade - but it gave me an error: 9/1/2024, 1:02:48 PM: New versions available: 9/1/2024, 1:02:48 PM: xoa-updater 0.50.1 (0.50.0 installed) 9/1/2024, 1:02:48 PM: Downloading packages... 9/1/2024, 1:02:49 PM: xoa-updater 0.50.1 ....................................................................................................................................................................................... ok ✔ 9/1/2024, 1:02:49 PM: Installing packages... 9/1/2024, 1:03:02 PM: Saving current updater version in /usr/local/lib/node_modules/xoa-updater-previous ...ok ✔ 9/1/2024, 1:03:03 PM: xoa-updater ✔ 9/1/2024, 1:03:14 PM: xoa-updater ✔ 9/1/2024, 1:03:14 PM: Lost connection with xoa-updater 9/1/2024, 1:03:14 PM: xoa-updater could not be reached Using ssh I went back to the command line and ran xoa-updater --upgrade again and this time it is proceeding forward. And now it all works! Very weird. I think I'm in good shape now.
  • Health alerts/alarms

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    @billcouper I 100% agree with you. I will add to this that it would be amazing if RX and TX nic/SFP errors could be made visible in the interface as well. reason why i mention this is we recently had a problem on one of our hosts storage links where due to a dirty fiber we had some problems (vm's going to read only, crashes, very poor IO). Due to how dom0 sits as a VM we could not get stats off a nic using ethtool or snmp. It took WAY to much trouble shooting to figure out that our issues was caused by a dirty fiber on the servers side. the more native/local self monitoring/alerting xcp-ng and XOA can do, the better.
  • Best Practices XO Location

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    I do run XOA on its own dedicated host/dedicated pool, so the xcp-ng cpu scheduler does not cause issues with other busy production VM's while backup tasks are happening. this also allows XOA to use 100% of cpu cores making backups (especially with compression on) faster. xoa does DR back up to the primary pool in case something happens to the host its running on.
  • Full backup restore error: Stream_vdi.Invalid_checksum

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    olivierlambertO
    Yes, you can always export/import the config on a working install. So it's a problem on your build, it's really hard to tell where's the culprit (because you built it, you see why we distribute it via XOA for production/professional usage )
  • XOA Pricing Concerns

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    Marc.pezinM
    Hello @someone2b, Marc here, CMO of Vates. I wanted to provide some clarity on our new pricing structure and the reasoning behind these changes. Here are a few key points that led to our decision: In 2022, half of the support requests from Xen Orchestra customers were actually related to issues with the hypervisor layer, which aren't covered by standalone Xen Orchestra support. We've seen an increase in requests for XCP-ng support from users who only seek help after encountering issues in their infrastructure. XCP-ng and Xen Orchestra have become deeply integrated, making it increasingly challenging for our team to effectively support Xen Orchestra without also addressing the virtualization platform. We’ve also redesigned our business model to be more equitable, particularly for smaller infrastructures. For those with 10 hosts or fewer, the new pricing is actually lower than the previous cost of purchasing XCP-ng and Xen Orchestra separately. That being said, we didn't forgot as well all the remaining XenServer users out there and we are currently working on to have a secure and affordable path forward for them as well. If you have any questions or would like to discuss this further, please don’t hesitate to reach out to our sales team at sales@vates.tech. Marc
  • Xenserver 8 Support

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    olivierlambertO
    The doc is now updated: https://xen-orchestra.com/docs/supported_hosts.html
  • Autostart VMs doesn't work

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    what about xcp center v20, after enabling the checkbox, it can't work like if we enable power_on:true via command line? is xcp center not patched?
  • after a major crash and reload sr introduce

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    olivierlambertO
    The SR won't store the metadata. Maybe you have a metadata backup saved for this pool?