@isdpcman-0 said in Install mono on XCP-ng: Our RMM tools will run on CentOS but fail to install because they are looking for mono to be on the system. How can I install Mono on an XCP-ng host so we can install our monitoring/management tools? Reply I think it is advised to consider hosts as appliances and not install any external packages (repos are disabled for that purpose, that's probably your issue for installing anything) even in case of clusters of many hosts in a pool, you should deploy same packages on all hosts to expect compliancy between hosts... better use SNMP to monitor you hosts ? or standard installed packages ?

@gduperrey said in How to Install XCP-ng Guest Tools on Rocky Linux 10?: but I don't have a release date yet, even for testing Actually it's already available as xcp-ng-pv-tools in the xcp-ng-incoming repository. What Gaël means is that we haven't run CI on it yet, so we haven't moved the package to the testing repository yet, which is when we usually invite users to test. However here I'm able to say that there's no risk in installing it now for testing, with: yum update xcp-ng-pv-tools --enablerepo=xcp-ng-incoming,xcp-ng-ci,xcp-ng-testing,xcp-ng-candidates (the testing repos will only be enabled for the time of the command, not permanently)

Thanks a lot for this In few months ago I have found your topic to try wazuh, and it is working good. After some error on my home lab, I need to install all again and remember your topic. On my installation, I just need to set /dev/xvda1 (if I just put /dev/xvda, VM not start). My home lab is on ProLiant DL360 Gen9.

Yes, and then Xen will reduce the RAM if there's not enough available to boot a new VM (reducing down to dynamic min). Static means it can't be changed live, while dynamic can.

So I actually posted these findings to the ZFSBootMenu Discussion github: https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu/discussions/787 Looks like they have tested ZBM against KVM but not Xen. Can Xen not handle a kernel being kexec'd?

@Forza I keep hoping to see an Alpha or Beta of XCP-ng 9 soon, but I think there is still a lot of work to be done on the host side and on the Xen Orchestra 6 side.

@Bill.Oliver license-wise should be the same. now I think virtualisation gurus here could try to explain you what are the challenges with numa and dual sockets i have notions, but couldnt explain quite the optimisation in xen

@acebmxer thank you for testing and confirming! For those who try this... NOTE WSL 1 has the issue of throwing the error Failed to take /etc/passswd lock: Invalid argument https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/2069555/comments/12 Here is a fix sudo sed -i -e '/systemd-sysusers/s/.conf$/.conf || true/' /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.postinst sudo apt --fix-broken install

Hi, Let me ask @Team-Hypervisor-Kernel

@Maelstrom96 said in Epyc VM to VM networking slow: What is the exact kernel patch that is required for the xen-platform-pci-bar-uc=false fix to work on a Linux guest? We're looking at potentially compiling our own kernel with the xen-netfront.c patch, and we would like to see about adding the other part of the Kernel code needed for the Grant table fix. Patch is in Linux since 5.19-rc. You also find it in some stable branches like 5.15. Otherwise, you can check this patch https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/ea4945df138527ed63e711cb77e3b333f7b3a4c9.1751633056.git.teddy.astie@vates.tech/

Happy to get your logs to get on the bottom of this. Sadly, we don't have a CM7 around so we cannot reproduce. Thank you very much for the feedback!

Hi, I don't know if my question can be part of this thread. I apologize in advance... I bought a new system based on "AMD Ryzen 9 9950X" installed on "ASUS PRIME B850-PLUS-CSM". My target is to install two VM: linux based Ubuntu; Windows 11 In a possible future, I would like to install a graphic card for windows 11 CAD applications... I would like to ask if xcp-ng can run this environment... Thank you Claudio

@olivierlambert Beyond 'Did you try rebooting it?', I think 'Have you updated to the latest version?' is the second hard and fast rule all IT people should follow. I suspected the problem was that I was a few releases behind, so I ran an update. It brought the software to 5.109, though I didn't check the blog release page to confirm if I was in fact on the latest. I can finally sleep well tonight!

I believe this was a bug that was fixed in later versions: https://support.citrix.com/support-home/kbsearch/article?articleNumber=CTX678047

I get ~510MiB on DL380 G10, 2.6ghz, 40gbe cx3, 8.3.

@Chemikant784 It's likely that both Microsoft and Xen tools are a combination of the fix, I doubt XCP-ng has anything to do with this issue. And I never had time to check the XCP-ng Guest tools for Windows to see if this happened, but I'm guessing no or not tested. All my hosts are now on XCP-ng 8.3 and I don't see any point in testing 8.2 since it is EOL. And that said, I'm no farther along in my Server 2025 testing, too many other things going on to think about it right now. If I have time I need to burn the vSphere portion of my lab down and install either Harvester HCI or Windows Server for Hyper-V. Broadcom is just (seemingly) going out of their way to prevent people like me (or us) from learning their products and using them in our labs to further that goal. I've explained this several times to VMUG Advantage managers, but they seem so tied up in clawing out some continuing relationships with Broadcom that they will not "rock the boat". I've said these things in Broadcom webcasts as well, always a run-around with no answers. Sorry for the rant. All that said, eagerly awaiting XCP-ng 9, unfortunately I think the Alpha or Beta may wait until XO 6 is finished (just a guess). The updated kernel brings with it some storage changes that I really want to test, NFS nconnect=XX being one of them to see if I can get a little better performance to/from the disks. ESXi default was nconnect=4 and the VMs were slightly faster to/from their disks (all thin provisioned). The 4k "block" size and smaller is what I want to improve in all this.

Try to disconnect/shutdown XO, and see if your Windows VM still restart every 10-15min.

@edisoninfo Great! This warning is a life saver and did perfectly its job, allowing you to discover a hidden issue Glad you found the root cause!