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olivierlambert

Is there a shop in Europe where it could be bought?

olivierlambert

A good way to help would be to have access to some hardware and to understand more what's needed at Xen/toolstack level I will ask around but if there's a chance we can get one card, it might be really helpful.

olivierlambert

A big change is coming!
As we prepare to add qcow2 support for backups, we took the opportunity to redesign major parts of the backup engine. The result? A much more flexible and abstracted system that can better handle various scenarios like V2V, qcow2, VHD, and more.

We're also moving from traditional streams to Node generators, adding backup throttling, and laying the groundwork for future improvements.

It's not production-ready yet, but that’s where you come in!
If you're working from sources, you can test it by switching to the branch: feat_generator_backups. Bug reports and feedback are more than welcome!

More tests from you means we could put it in production sooner

For reference, the PR is here: https://github.com/vatesfr/xen-orchestra/pull/8432

Adding directly @florent in the loop because he's the guy to talk to

fbeauchamp opened this pull request in vatesfr/xen-orchestra

draft feat(backups): use generator instead of streams for backup and replication #8432

olivierlambert

So maybe there's a timeout that's too long for XO. Adding @florent and/or @julien-f in the loop.

olivierlambert

That's a very interesting result It means the problem is either an interaction between XO and XAPI, or on XO's side, but not simply an XCP-ng issue as we could have thought initially

Can you check if the XVA file seems to work when importing it? (it case xe fails silently). Use xe vm-import.

nathanael-h

@markxc said in create a new vm using a iso setting cpu ram network via api:

Out of curiosity: how do you handle the Xen Orchestra appliance installation?

We use Packer, a Debian iso and an Ansible playbook in the ansible provisioner. See https://developer.hashicorp.com/packer/integrations/hashicorp/ansible/latest/components/provisioner/ansible

With this setup, we achieve these tasks:

Create VM, mount ISO, perform install, and detect when installation is complete
Shut down the VM
Export VM as an OVA template

We also have a CI/CD pipeline doing this automatically.

olivierlambert

Please try

olivierlambert

xe vm-export filename=export_filename compress=true (for gzip, otherwise use zstd for Zstd compression)

Note: make sure to mount a share with enough space and not export directly on the dom0 root, otherwise you'll fill it.

olivierlambert

That's a question for the DevOps Tools team

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