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  • All Xen related stuff

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    Hello @anthoineb, We captured another occurrence on the same VM, os-ott-data-3-2 (172.30.52.193), on the same hypervisor and QCOW2 VDI as the incident reported on 2026-07-25. This occurrence is useful because xen_blkfront.max_ring_page_order=3 was definitely active: xenstore showed ring-page-order=3 with eight ring references; the guest queue depth was 256; 255 write requests remained in flight; all 256 blk-mq scheduler tags were busy; wbt_lat_usec=0; I/O PSI full was approximately 98%; completed xvdb counters did not advance between samples. The backend state was nevertheless the same as in the previous capture: tapdisk was sleeping in scheduler_wait_for_events(); tap-ctl reported reqs_outstanding=0; tap request counters were 0/0; req_prod=0 and rsp_prod=0; no tap, image, VBD, map or xenbus errors were reported. One detail may be relevant: GDB still printed n_reqs=32 and n_reqs_free=32, although the frontend had negotiated an order-3 ring and the guest exposed 256 tags. Is this expected because n_reqs represents a separate fixed tapdisk request pool, or could it indicate that tapdisk is not observing the complete multi-page ring? The controller captured GDB and the guest/hypervisor state before reboot. After the ten-minute diagnostic window, the same signature was confirmed three more times and the VM was rebooted. It rejoined the cluster successfully. I have attached: the complete GDB/tap-ctl capture; the guest blk-mq, diskstats, PSI, D-state stack and kernel-journal snapshot; the corresponding tapdisk/xenstore, daemon.log and SMlog excerpt; a README and SHA-256 checksums. The important new result appears to be that increasing max_ring_page_order from 0 to 3 did not prevent the stall; the same mismatch recurred with 255/256 frontend requests/tags occupied while the backend ring and tapdisk remained empty. 20260730-005220-gdb-172.30.52.193.txt 20260730-pre-reboot-guest-172.30.52.193.txt 20260730-pre-reboot-hypervisor-172.30.50.191.txt README.txt SHA256SUMS.txt
  • The integrated web UI to manage XCP-ng

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    The same as @john.c and also XO Lite tends to be less a priority because less critical than the full fledged XO (the priority is to replace entirely XO 5 in the next releases). Why you would need XO Lite outside basic actions? It's mostly meant to bootstrap XO itself and do basic operations (which is already the case, at least with many basic features already). Initially, the goal hasn't moved: replacing XenCenter. We are moving in that direction, but again, I think it's more important to get XO 6 finished first. I'm curious to understand more the use case of XO Lite in your context @unreal-shizzle ?
  • Section dedicated to migrations from VMWare, HyperV, Proxmox etc. to XCP-ng

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    olivierlambertO
    Excellent! It's really cool to see how XO Backup and Replication can help you to migrate easily
  • Hardware related section

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    @yannsionneau That's great to hear, I can't wait to see what it'll look like.
  • The place to discuss new additions into XCP-ng

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    DanpD
    @rvreugde I believe this is already being reviewed internally.
  • DC topology info

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    @bleader yes, Thank you.
  • Beginner advice - coming from Debian

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    @WillEndure said in Beginner advice - coming from Debian: @DustinB @DustinB said in Beginner advice - coming from Debian: Why are you keen on keeping raw XEN on Debian? Not committed to the idea - its just what I currently have and invested a bit of time into setting it up and understanding it since before XCP-ng was around. Time is a factor too because you can waste a lot of it setting stuff like this up! But overall yes, I should probably move over to XCP-ng for my host. Got it, sunk-cost fallacy.
  • Copying a VM from 8.2 to 8.3 and back

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    stormiS
    I think this part of the doc describes your issue: https://docs.xcp-ng.org/releases/release-8-3/#a-uefi-vm-started-once-on-xcp-ng-83-cant-start-if-moved-back-to-xcp-ng-821
  • Unable to find logs in XenCenter or Xen Orchestra

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    @olivierlambert thanks i got it.
  • PCIe card removal and failure to boot from NVMe

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    olivierlambertO
    Okay weird, at east glad to know it works now
  • how to use template created in another host machine?

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    olivierlambertO
    If the machines are on the same pool no problem. If they are not, you need to export the template and import it in the other pool.
  • Openstack vs xcp-ng (XO)

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    @olivierlambert got it.
  • XCP-ng host - Power management

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    @tjkreidl We don't need performance, but we do need to test how XCP-ng pools, networking, migration, live migration, backup, import from VMware and so on work. It's just a playground where we can have relatively many XCP-ng hosts, but it's not about performance, it's about efficiency and low requirements, because it's just a playground where we learn, validate how things work, and prepare the process for the final migration from VMware to XCP-ng. We originally had two R630s ready for this, then 4, but that would have been unnecessary, given the power consumption, to have physical hypervisors, so in the end we decided to virtualize it all. Well, on ESXi it's because XCP-ng works seamlessly there in nested virtualization.
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    @spcmediaco FYI, I never figured out how to fix. I am doing backup recovery now.
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    @Bambos A timeout error means that the host did not reply in the expected delay, which, if I'm remembering correctly is 5 minutes. I suspect a problem on your host but we will take a look further on your support ticket.
  • GRUB waits for confirmation

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    @techknowbabble said in GRUB waits for confirmation: What did finally work was re-installing with the 'no serial' option and everything seems to be working as expected now. I only have a handful of XCP-NG installations under my belt but I wonder if this is a known bug or if anyone else has had a similar experience. It's not something I've ever seen before and I've done quite a few installations but I can think of some possibilities as to why something like that might fix the problem. My best guess is that there's something built into, connected to, or otherwise in your system that looks like a serial port (maybe even a real serial port) that spits out a character or two into the system at boot time, confusing GRUB and stopping the normal boot process. The bad KVM I mentioned before was doing something like that, throwing a bogus keypress into the system at boot time.
  • Wide VMs on XCP-ng

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    @plaidypus Ah gotcha, this makes sense. I second scaling out instead of up. If you're getting new hosts, I'd also keep in mind newer CPUs do have much higher per core performance (not sure what your current stuff is), so you also might be able to get away with less vCPUs and lower likelihood of NUMA spanning. Either way though I think scaling out is the better direction to go.
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  • VM cannot be migrated after NICs of one host died

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    @hansve You're welcome.
  • block tdc: sector-size: 512/512 capacity: 20938752

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    @apz I see. Thanks.
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    @R2rho yeah, there are Supermicro systems with AM5 which can handle a decent amount of load, like based on the h13sae-mf, like: https://www.supermicro.com/de/products/system/mainstream/1u/as-1015a-mt (with less depth) Seem to be stable, but we have a small issue regarding onboard graphics ATM: https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/9976/black-screen-after-install-on-supermicro-h13sae-mf-with-ryzen-9950x/3?_=1734419502978
  • VM not booting after attaching GPU

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    DanpD
    You should start by checking the logs. https://docs.xcp-ng.org/troubleshooting/log-files/
  • XCP-ng v8.3 Host Crashing Upon Console Login and Performing Any Action

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    bleaderB
    Thanks for letting us know, and I'm happy you have thing working nicely now. I think to mark this as resolved you need to convert your original post as a question, and it can then be marked as resolved. I actually cannot do it myself, I think only a few people have the permission to do it for others at Vates.
  • Change VM RAM

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    olivierlambertO
    Enjoy XO & XCP-ng then
  • host time and xoa time are not consistent with each other

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    @olivierlambert I resolved it, logged in the XCP-ng console and set the NTP servers to default. All good now. Thanks [image: 1733066154172-xcp-ntp2.png]