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

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    @Danp Hi, I'll try this. Thank you very much. Best regards Mattmurdock78
  • ACLs, Self-service, Cloud-init, Load balancing...

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    @Andrew said in Is it possible to convert a BIOS to UEFI and introduce vTPM into an existing VM?: I have not converted windows as I normally started newer versions as UEFI and older version work better with BIOS For peeps that stumble on this post looking for answers, the answer is yes you can for Windows. You can use the built in Windows mbr2gpt program to do so. However, things to consider before attempting are? You can only have 3 partitions on the C driver. This is due to MBR only supporting 4. the 4th partition will be used during conversion it also has to shrink some space from the end of the drive You might have to move the recovery partition if it is at the end of the disk Basic steps are, to first run the command below. This will tell you if conversion should works mbr2gpt /validate /allowfullos Then the following to start the conversion mbr2gpt /convert /allowfullos Hope it helps someone
  • All XO backup features: full and incremental, replication, mirrors...

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    Use XO to connect on the host with the 10G network IPs addresses.
  • Everything related to Xen Orchestra's REST API

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    Keep us posted when you are on master, then we'll try to reproduce the issue when we can.
  • Terraform, Packer or any tool to do IaC

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    @manilx I have proposed to the IaC team of Vates, a MCP Server for Vates VMS. Which can be used by GitHub Copilot or similar, if used when doing IaC etc.
  • HOST_NOT_ENOUGH_FREE_MEMORY

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    @olivierlambert Thanks for the quick feedback!
  • What ordering does XO trigger backups in?

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    Hi @xo-g , We don't use any specific order to pick the VMs to backup.
  • How to implement the perfect backup strategy with Xen Orchestra?

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  • Single backup job two locations

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    You can have one job with 2 remotes. Or a job with backup and DR at the same time.
  • SAML, automatic user generation

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    @mrbaz Thanks for the detailed feedback! If XO had a way of pulling the user's group information and only allowing those in a certain group to have authorization to XO to have their accounts automatically generated, that would work too. That wouldn't be trivial to implement with our current plugin system. But as you said, a user that logs into XO isn't able to do anything without granting them permissions first. Also, if this is still a concern for you, you can disable user auto-generation in xo-server configuration by adding this line: createUserOnFirstSignin = false However, you'd then have to create the users manually before they can log in. the issue still stands that I can't put a user into a group or assign ACLs until after they have signed in for the first time. I agree but I'm not sure what a good solution to this would be. If we add an option to import all the users at once, it could mean importing a lot of users for some companies, even if many of those users would never actually log in later.
  • Cannot import a large VHD using Import Disk option

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    @nraynaud @olivierlambert Thanks guys!
  • S3 Remote

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    @lawrencesystems said in S3 Remote: I was hoping to avoid this method as my pfsense is not connected at 10G. Thank you for the clarification. Happy I could help.
  • un-zstd .xva files exported with XOA?

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    @olivierlambert said in un-zstd .xva files exported with XOA?: Hi! Again, before starting to talk about technical solution, can you explain the use case? If you have zstd installed on your machine, yes. It's a tar with compression (gzip or zstd). But then it won't be trivial to assemble VM data (but you can exctract metadata easily!) I didn't really mean disassemble the .xva, but rather create an uncompressed .xva that has broader support/portability. The zstd command line tool seems to be able to uncompress it just fine. Thanks.
  • Reset Xen Orchestra Community Edition Web Password

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    olivierlambertO
    Hey there! It's a good thing to start by reading our doc. If you enter "Password" in the search field, you would have find: https://xen-orchestra.com/docs/troubleshooting.html#recover-web-login-password As you are using Xen Orchestra into production, may I suggest to go for XOA with pro support at some point?
  • Automating VM creation via Terraform

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    @newknowledge Thanks, I'll try it out later.
  • Pool Metadata backup sometimes fails when using multiple remotes

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    @olivierlambert Maybe. Ive created a support ticket for now. Hopefully you can see if the problem is a configuration mistake on our end or a problem in XO. Thanks.
  • Multiple internal networks in pool for each user

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    @jfrelik Similar issue here - still trying to figure this out. https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/4209/xcp-ng-and-network-virtualisation-help
  • Ansible dynamic inventory and XO

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    Nice
  • xo-cli - Get alarms

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    You are welcome Enjoy! (great thing about xo cli is that you can get alarms of all your hosts from a single endpoint)
  • XOA migrate the XO itself

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    You can't, indeed, live migrate a VM from Intel to AMD (or vice-versa), for obvious reason (the VM will try to call Intel specific instructions after migrating on an AMD CPU, the result would be… a crash!) We had a similar migration ourselves (in our own prod), from Intel to AMD. And we decided to use Continuous Replication to make a first "backup" on destination (the full) while the original VMs were running (no service interruption). Then, we shut down the VMs, make another round of replication (delta, very fast) and then we booted on destination.
  • New VMs created in Xen Orchestra reboot every couple of minutes

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    @olivierlambert That socket issue was not what was causing the problem, I went through setting by setting and if I choose 2GB of memory for a VM I get constant reboots when using XOA. I was able to repeat the issue with a number of OSs not just RHEL 8 (and variants). I havent went through and compared the differences between XOA and XenCenter yet.
  • Multiple remotes in a backup - how is retention calculated

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    @s-pam said in Multiple remotes in a backup - how is retention calculated: OK Great. So if I set retention to 10, it would keep 10 copies on each remote? Yes. it will keep 10 copies on each remote.
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  • Error: SR_BACKEND_FAILURE_109(, The snapshot chain is too long, )

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    In theory, Xen Orchestra got a protection against this issue (see https://xen-orchestra.com/docs/backup_troubleshooting.html#vdi-chain-protection ) So you have to find what's causing a long chain outside XO. You can check in XO, in the Advanced tab of the SR view, if there's VDI to coalesce. Or maybe very long chain for other reasons, there's a tool we made called xapi-explore-sr.
  • Backups/VM Migrations Slow

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    Use CR instead of DR then, it will send only the diff to the other host, so it will be faster.