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

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    andrewperryA
    @anthoineb thanks very much! Definitely has us sharpening our cli skills in the meantime….

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

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    olivierlambertO
    That's a very good question, let me ask internally. Ping @pdonias he might know the answer

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

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    @florent I rebuilt my XCP hosting environment (everything is faster and bigger stuffed into one rack).... and this issue is now worse. The main changes to this new setup are 2x40Gb networking, faster NFS NVMe NAS, faster pool servers, more memory, much faster CR destination machine with ZFS. Running XCP 8.3 (March 2026 updates) and XO (master a2e33). Replication is leaving many attached to control domain every day with NBD connection set to 2. Changing it to 1 seems to resolve the issue (no more stuck to control domain).

  • Everything related to Xen Orchestra's REST API

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    gduperreyG
    An update for ipmitool has just been released, incorporating a fix for the issue you were experiencing: https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2026/03/19/march-2026-security-updates-for-xcp-ng-8-3-lts/

  • Terraform, Packer or any tool to do IaC

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    dalemD
    Version 1.4.0 is released: https://codeberg.org/NiXOA/system/releases/tag/v1.4.0 It includes significant changes and improvements, including: dedicated getting started section, migration to valkey, only needing to clone system, and helper scripts. the xen-orchestra-ce nixpkg now references the libvhdi nixpkg, and the core flake now references and pulls from the xen-orchestra-ce repo as an overlay. System (the user input flake) now uses the Core repo as an overlay, reducing the need to clone both locally AND allowing system to pull new updates and releases from core. XO, and libvhdi as needed. The next goal is: Make an xsconsole-like TUI Automate package updates for libvhdi and xen-orchestra-ce using CI/CD pipelines Submit libvhdi and xen-orchestra-ce as official nixpkgs
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  • akurzawaA

    make snapshot by every two weeks - expictly not in weekend

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    akurzawaA
    That's what I do now - I'm disabling this backup task for 2nd and 4th week.
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    Create job to migrate several VMs

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    @bberndt said in Create job to migrate several VMs: Tring to create a job, to schedule the migration of several VMs to another host. At the bottom, there are a couple things I don't know. There are two check boxes here for each of these: mapVdisSrs mapVifsNetworks They don't seem to do anything. What are these? Also, what goes in the box Migration Network. The name storage1, or network1 don't work. thanks. Ah! the UUID of the storage Migration network on the destination is what I need, apparently.
  • akurzawaA

    How to delete orphaned VHD virtual disks?

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    olivierlambertO
    Check host logs to understand why. Maybe those VHD were attached to the control domain or something like that.
  • akurzawaA

    XenOrchestra multicore ?

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    julien-fJ
    @akurzawa xo-server is not explicitly multi-processed, but it uses async IO calls in Node which should lead to multi-threaded operations. Anyway, we are currently working on reimplementing backups for the proxy and it will eventually lead to using multiple processes. These changes will at the end be merged back to xo-server as well.
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    Backup NG Remote "File already exists"

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    ok, logged into linux, su root, and tried the command on the console mount -t nfs 192.168.30.60:/mnt/Brutus/Remote /run/xo-server/mounts/86109d77-9600-48c6-b131-0ca475cd1ad4 -o vers=3 mount.nfs: requested NFS version or transport protocol is not supported tried without -o vers=3 and it worked.
  • akurzawaA

    Continuous Replication and snapshots together

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    badrAZB
    If you create two separated jobs. One for the CR and one for the Rolling snapshot they will not interfere.
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    Scheduling continuous replication on xo-server built from sources

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    Changed it to run after every 10 mins. I was missing the correct configuration. Thank you very much.
  • akurzawaA

    Deleting 25 vms - stuck, nothing happening

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    OK the tasks (it been 8 hours since I've checked) are gone, but the VHDs localted on backup server's localstorage remains. QUESTION: How to delete VHDs that are not realted to any vm? I think it will not be deleted automatically. EG. For example - I've deleted "Atlas" VM, but big atlas VHD remains on BackupHost's local storage: [image: 1581667660068-666ed028-c8e0-4ae7-86f3-1a307f7eee76-image.png]
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    XO Backup Retention and Replication Retention

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    badrAZB
    Hi, It's possible to do it using the UI, simply create a schedule with 7 as Backup retention and 2 as Replication retention. [image: 1581581696403-fd938a54-8730-4bcf-85c3-7caf2018ac52-image.png]
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    Xen Orchestra Backup Stuck

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    olivierlambertO
    Because there's a ton of dependencies, and we try to decouple things, this work takes time. We should be able to run on a more recent version of Node soon, and when it will be the case, our doc will be updated accordingly. That's exactly why we can't support 3rd party installers. Our doc might change and during the interval, if the 3rd party installer isn't following, then it will break.
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    This topic is deleted!

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    How do you create a new vm from an imported disk

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    OK, seems I wasn't trying hard enough. I was trying to mount the tools under the iso list, but when I look further down the list to xc-ng Tools it turns out I can mount the tools from there as long as I do it manually (mount /dev/sr0 /media/blahblah). Installed now, all good.
  • olivierlambertO

    Merging XO forum here

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    olivierlambertO
    There's no tool to "merge" old forum or fetch old message. So for few months we'll still have old XO forum then it will be automatically redirected to the XO category here.
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    XOA build number

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    olivierlambertO
    It's just a missing info in a config file of the appliance. Not a big deal, just surprising to see that now, despite the fact it was there before.
  • SchmalzTechS

    Some thank-yous, feedback, and hints for those trying to get current builds of XO community edition running

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    XO Delta Backup Fails to Local Storage Mounted via NFS

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    Hi, So I tried using the NFS target remotes but the speed of transfer was very poor even though the connection from XO to the NFS server is over 10Gbe. XO is on the same XCP-ng host as the VMs being backed up. This XCP-ng server is connected to the NFS mount over 10Gbe network: [image: 1581002643082-56cc5a0a-e633-443b-9a50-6575ef5cddaf-image.png] Here is the NFS Remotes setting in XO to the backup server (FreeNAS) at IP 10.10.2.3:[image: 1581002745614-046fcdaa-8788-4d69-aa00-c1620a0afb46-image.png] The backup logs show extremely low transfer speed: [image: 1581001993532-b51d304d-2fb6-472f-8eb9-0dbec967d49c-image.png]
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    How to select network for migration in XOA

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    Okay perfect I'll have a look Thanks!
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    VSS Backup/Application Consistent

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    stormiS
    Also note that Citrix guest tools version 9 removed VSS support already.
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    VM backup to local storage

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    @olivierlambert Thanks again for the reply. I’m looking into it more. I think I need to add the storage directly to the VM running XO. I was trying to use a drive connected to a drive on my local network. Though it says it can talk to the drive, it does not reach it. I’m trying now to add an NFS to the XO server.
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    Back up only the OS disk

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    olivierlambertO
    You can avoid transferring some disk data with the [NOBAK] title in the VM disk. However, a VM snapshot isn't capable of ignoring a disk. This would require a change either in the way we do backup in XO (not using VM.snapshot, but VDI.snapshot instead) or modify XCP-ng API to support VM.snapshot with excluded disk. The first option will make quiesce snapshots impossible. The other one is a bit more complicated to realize, but not impossible. The issue already exists in our bug tracker: https://github.com/vatesfr/xen-orchestra/issues/2560 julien-f created this issue in vatesfr/xen-orchestra closed [Full backups] Supports `[NOBAK]` #2560