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

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    Hi, IP conflict?

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

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    @florent Thanks for your reply! We have started to migrate thousands of VMs, so disk transfer speed is important for us.. We will also do our detailed tests soon with different threads setting and publish it here. I think threads=1 is a good and logical default, but not efficient. Others might complain if you set it to a higher value. Configuration option would be a real good solution.

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

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    Evening @pierrebrunet My bad. I am now on commit b440f and the issue persist. I have written you a message with the link to the file. Regards, Marc

  • 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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    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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    XO UI Storage Feedback

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    Hi, Remotes and SRs aren't managed the same way by XO. XO is connected directly to the remotes to do some read/write operations, unlike SRs which is connected to them via XCP-ng. So the SRs aren't directly managed by XO, but are managed using the XCP-ngs' XAPI and we are limited to what the XAPI provides as information.
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    Painfully slow backup with Xen Orchestra from sources in freeBSD jail

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    Hi, FreeBSD install was already documented officially: https://xen-orchestra.com/docs/installation.html#freebsd You could have test to use HTTP instead of HTTPS to see if perfs are improved New XO backup code will come in few releases that will speed up things Quiesce snapshot: it's not needed for Linux VMs because of the disk driver automatically handling this.
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    Compatibility issue for XO tool with Windows 10 version 2004?

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    Hi @olivierlambert , cool. Thank you. That makes clear for me now. Andy
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    XOA Console: Windows server - sending ctl+alt+delete keys

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    Cancel that! I found the keys icon for sending the combo just above console.....
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    CR tag ignored (kind of) in smart backup

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    I've created a PR for this issue, feel free to test this branch: https://github.com/vatesfr/xen-orchestra/pull/5341 julien-f opened this pull request in vatesfr/xen-orchestra closed fix(xo-server/{CR,DR}): add tags at VM creation #5341
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    Cannot import OVA from VirtualBox

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    https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Browser_Console
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    Moving XO to New Host

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    You need to select a template first.
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    recommendation for XO

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    Hi @anchen Thanks for the feedback that will be helpful to build the new UI from scratch Pinging @pdonias @badrAZ and @badrAZ about this
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    Continuous Replication Hosts

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    @olivierlambert ahh gotcha ok thanks for the info
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    Question about XO snapshot location

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    Yes indeed, in CR, you'll send a copy of the disk toward a destination SR. But still, the snapshot is made on the same storage. However, I get your point, and I think in theory, it could be doable with some heavy changes in the storage stack (to have a snapshot located "elsewhere"). However, for each read in the VHD chain, you'll have to read on multiple storage at once, which can be complicated technically speaking (especially if they are shared)
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    Windows Server VM backup hangs

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    Will do
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    xo-cli help

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    @kirovtome > xo-cli --list-commands vdi.set vdi.set id=<string> [name_label=<string>] [name_description=<string>] [size=<integer|string>]
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    How do I remove old pool&host that do not exist?

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    Thanks. It works now.
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    Kubernetes Recipe - Basic setup not working

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    It seems that Debian Buster has some problems with Kubernetes. While this base setup is working, one should also assure that every tool uses the legacy iptables. If not, pod's will not be able to reach the kubernetes api... And then... failure all over! So we also need: update-alternatives --set iptables /usr/sbin/iptables-legacy update-alternatives --set ip6tables /usr/sbin/ip6tables-legacy update-alternatives --set arptables /usr/sbin/arptables-legacy update-alternatives --set ebtables /usr/sbin/ebtables-legacy ```
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    Where does cloud-init log? Deployed template not 100% as configured.

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    Genius! That did the trick. Much appreciated.
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    Audit log export?

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    Hi, Audit logs aren't in the same location than the xo-server logs. To get Audit logs you can use this command xo-cli audit.getRecords which returns an array of records. xo-cli audit.getRecords This command has an option ndjson, which allows you to export logs in a ndjson format. xo-cli audit.getRecords ndjson="json:true" @=<outputPath>
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    Question about XO pool network

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    Hi @olivierlambert , gotcha, no worries. I will just leave it there. Thank you for the reply. Andy
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    Backups stuck at "started" when it looks like they finished

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    @Rocky most like a connection issue, but since you already restarted I think the logs are already gone. If it was a one-off I wouldn't worry about it (but do make sure that the backup is actually working, may be a good idea to do another full backup).
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    XO debian 10 cloud ready VM template (cloud-init)

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    I was able to find the reason XO is not working with cloud-init. XO attaches iso with the cloud-config data as additional disk xvdb and it does not work. But if you provide it as a cd? It will. That is why - as for now you will need to create your own iso and attach it as a cd-rom. You do that this way: Get your files ready (meta-data network-config user-data). My examples below: metadata: instance-id: local-nocloud local-hostname: myhost.example.com network-config: network: version: 1 config: - type: physical name: eth0 subnets: - type: static address: 10.0.0.5/24 gateway: 10.0.0.254 - type: nameserver address: - 8.8.8.8 - 8.8.4.4 search: - example.com - type: physical name: eth1 subnets: - type: static address: 192.168.0.5/24 user-data: #cloud-config ### RUN CMD runcmd: - /usr/bin/apt -y install mc - /usr/bin/date >> /root/testfile # set system default user system_info: default_user: name: testuser gecos: Default Cloud User # password auth - comment out if not using passwords password: testpassword ssh_pwauth: true chpasswd: { expire: false } # do some package management #package_update: true packages: - iptraf - mtr - screen - net-tools - atop Generate iso genisoimage -output myiso.iso -volid cidata -joliet -rock user-data meta-data network-config Upload iso to XO home -> storage -> iso's -> disks -> new disk Prepare VM/template Install Debian 10.6 with xo-tools install cloud-init and cloud-initramfs-growroot remove all network configuration leave just "allow-hotplug ethxxx" (network config will be added in /etc/network/interfaces/50-cloud-init. It will not overwrite yours) shutdown the machine and create the template if you want or just restart VM. DO NOT LET IT BOOT! - keep it in grub. attach your iso let it run It will do whatever you need on the machine.
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    XO templates cd image problem

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    This is a great news as I will be able to have all my scripts written as of now and xo-cli in one place. Thanks @olivierlambert For those who are looking for direct instructions ... on Debian 10.x: # install npm: apt install npm # install xo-cli: npm install -g xo-cli