@herhin2017 said: @john.c Your absolute wright, i do my best and train about 25 young engineers per year on linux (we use debian). I also see more and more startups or small companies building their infrastructure on linux. Best greetings from austria It may be worth getting in line and noting the mention of EFI based servers for official Vates support with XCP-ng version 9.0 and above, in government reports. That way when the school’s hardware is refreshed it can be ensured that your provided with EFI capable servers, in time for XCP-ng version 8.3 EOL. I personally are already ready for XCP-ng version 9.0 due to my servers being Dell PowerEdge R620 for XCP-ng hosts. Along with Debian version 13.6 on the VMs. While using a Dell Precision 3590 to manage those systems. The “wright” makes your above now sound like a wheel wright, and its profession instead of “right” in for when correct or agreeing with someone or something.

@dinhngtu i've manage to fixed it. Your build adds some extra entries in /var/lib/xcp/state.db that aren't in the version from testing, that broke things when i downgraded the packages. ipv4_dns VIF.ipv6_dns

@poddingue said: Thanks for posting the fix. The same thing came up in an older thread, https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/9957, where disabling IPv6 also made xoa check go green. @HamiltonWDS explained a likely reason in https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/87831: Node tries the addresses with a short timeout and can end up on the IPv6 one. Your curl -6 test helps a lot here, because it shows IPv6 doesn't connect at all on that network, so it's more than a slow path. Turning it off in XOA seems reasonable if you don't use IPv6 there; if you do, I'd guess the router side is where it really needs fixing, though I could be wrong (still haven't migrated to IPv6 myself ). Curious whether it sorts out the Cloud Backup too. XOA is using our management network where ipv6 is not needed and not enabled. Looks like our cloud backup finally ran for the first time in while too.[image: cloudbackup.jpg]

@MathieuRA We reverted back to 6.8.2 for now. We can wait for patch, otherwise, I have opened a tunnel #38081.

@racom.jiristerba Sorry, I missed answering your questions the first time Is the tapdisk QCOW2 commit failure “The device is not writable: Permission denied” a known issue with these package versions on shared LVM/iSCSI storage? Yes, it's a known issue, most of them will be fixed with the latest update, you might need to activate the VDI again but a migration during RPU will be enough Why does rollback attempt to deactivate the active guest LV while tapdisk still holds it open? It's because in the case of VHD, it's the case but with QCOW2 we don't stop the tapdisk process accessing the VDI, it's a change that was missed Is the qcow2OLD_<UUID> naming seen in rollback expected, compared with QCOW2-OLD_<UUID> seen during successful cleanup? It's a pre-existing bug that I already have on my TODO list Is there a supported update, hotfix, or workaround for this configuration? Installing the latest release sm-3.2.12-25.1 during updates (and maybe launching a xe sr-scan uuid=<SR UUI> after updating it so it auto-resolve the undo) should be enough What additional logs are required to identify the original failure of the second QCOW2 VM? I don't think we need any more logs since the errors I'm seeing should already be fixed. If you have any more issues after installing the newest packages, I will take another look What is the recommended recovery procedure without a guest outage, and how should we validate the disk chains before resuming snapshot backups? The sr-scan after updating should do it automatically, it shouldn't need any manipulation. Looking at the storage logs in /var/log/SMlog for any irregularities could help to see problems.

@stormi I am glad to hear there is progress, and I never doubted that there was interest and will from the Dev team, it was just stated, by Oliver himself, that the focus was mostly on the classic hypervisor features and that resources for edge cases were scarce. The numbers might not be spot on, but it was something similar.. Anyways I know you care and that the team always take interest in home-lab scenarios. And that, is why I keep recommending XCP-ng. You are good and motivated people, you care and interact with the community and you have a product that is simple in structure and free of most of the technical bureaucracy that the other ecosystems have. And yes, this particular Intel Arc issue, is not only on XCP-ng, The intel toolbox and drivers for this platform is currently a mess for Linux. And you are right to take home-labbers under your wing and prioritize it. As I'm sure you know, although it might not be of direct importance for revenue, they do have a huge impact on popularity. I dont think Proxmox would have had the traction it has, without them Thank you for replying, and thank you to the team for their hard work!

So, for everyone who wants to install NUT as a service follow these steps. Modifying the systemd files can make you system unbootable! It should not happen, but there is chance since we are also modifying some "natively shipped files". So an update can break your working configuration again and that is not the fault of XCP-NG!!! As prerequisite it requires the installation and testing of this step-by-step guide https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/104253. Make sure everything runs before proceeding to the following steps! Now: ################################# Remove "nut-driver.target" dependency ################################# Remove "nut-driver.target" dependency from "nut-server.service" by calling nano /lib/systemd/system/nut-server.service and remove nut-driver.target from routine. I prefer to duplicate and comment to keep the modified rows in the original code. It then should look like this. DO NOT COPY AND PASTE, read, compare and modify carefully! [Unit] Description=Network UPS Tools - power devices information server #After=local-fs.target network.target nut-driver.target After=local-fs.target network.target # We don't Require drivers to be successfully started! This would be # a change of behavior compared to init SysV, and could prevent from # accessing successfully started, at least to audit a system. #Wants=nut-driver.target Wants= # The `upsd` is a networked service (even if bound to a `localhost`) # so it requires that the OS has some notion of networking already. # Extending the unit does not require *this* file to be edited, you # can instead drop in an additional piece of configuration, e.g. add # a `/etc/systemd/system/nut-server.service.d/network.conf` with: # [Unit] # Requires=network-online.target # After=network-online.target Requires=network.target Before=nut-monitor.service PartOf=nut.target [Service] EnvironmentFile=-/etc/ups/nut.conf SyslogIdentifier=%N # Note: foreground mode by default skips writing a PID file (and # needs Type=simple); can use "-FF" here to create one anyway: ExecStart=/usr/sbin/upsd -F ExecReload=/usr/sbin/upsd -c reload -P $MAINPID [Install] WantedBy=nut.target ################################# Add Service for ups-driver ################################# nano /etc/systemd/system/ups-driver.service [Unit] Description=NUT UPS Driver After=network-online.target Wants=network-online.target Before=nut-server.service [Service] Type=oneshot ExecStart=/usr/sbin/upsdrvctl start ExecStop=/usr/sbin/upsdrvctl stop RemainAfterExit=yes [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target ################################### Add Requirement for nut-server ################################# mkdir -p /etc/systemd/system/nut-server.service.d nano /etc/systemd/system/nut-server.service.d/ups-driver.conf [Unit] Requires=ups-driver.service After=ups-driver.service ################################### Add Requirement for nut monitor ################################# mkdir -p /etc/systemd/system/nut-monitor.service.d nano /etc/systemd/system/nut-monitor.service.d/nut-server.conf [Unit] Requires=nut-server.service After=nut-server.service ################################### Enable services ################################### systemctl daemon-reload systemctl enable ups-driver.service systemctl enable nut.target systemctl enable nut-server.service systemctl enable nut-monitor.service systemctl start nut-monitor.service ################################### Analyze & debugging commands ################################### systemctl list-dependencies nut-monitor.service systemd-analyze critical-chain nut-monitor.service systemctl show nut-monitor.service -p Requires -p Wants -p After systemctl show nut-server.service -p Requires -p Wants -p After

@johnnezero You can use the docs directly in /rest/v0/docs. You just have to connect and fill in the uuid you need. It will work

@poddingue said: There's a similar report on 6.8 in https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/12453, where @flakpyro said it got fixed through a support ticket and that @florent would know the exact fix. I read through the 6.9.0 changelog, but I couldn't find an entry about metadata backups or Body Timeout Error, so I can't confirm that moving to the latest channel fixes it, though it may have gone in without a changelog line. If you have a support contract, a ticket that points at that thread might be the quickest way to the patch Florent made. It is in the 6.9.0 change log but not where you might expect, even as a backup bug fix. In this case it’s filed under the miscellaneous (misc) section as “Fixed: BodyTimeoutError during long transfers”. Given where it is in the change log you may have missed it. If it isn’t in the change log then why is it in the release announcement?

@mpiton Thanks for a fantasticly quick answer, and detailed as well. I will test this immediately! Update: I can confirm that this was indeed the problem!

I didn't know, so I went and looked at the code. XO prunes that list in a cleanup step: backup runs are kept for 31 days, and other tasks are kept by count, the newest 1000 (https://github.com/vatesfr/xen-orchestra/blob/b59c8f3d20954aa1d72e92c1e8f2db635d74fcba/@xen-orchestra/mixins/Tasks.mjs#L119-L127). You can change both with tasks.gc.keep and tasks.gc.backupKeepDuration in the xo-server config. As far as I can tell the cleanup runs when xo-server starts, not on a timer, so a long-running XO can collect quite a few before the next restart. My guess for the Cloud Backup entries @acebmxer still sees after 30 days is that they're kept by count rather than by age.

I tried it on a lab host (XCP-ng 8.3, xapi 26.1.16): calling VM.pool_migrate on a halted VM gives me your error, VM_BAD_POWER_STATE with running, halted, so the two values are the state XAPI wanted and the one it found. On the XO side, a migration inside the same pool with no SR or network mapping goes straight to VM.pool_migrate without checking the power state first: https://github.com/vatesfr/xen-orchestra/blob/b59c8f3d20954aa1d72e92c1e8f2db635d74fcba/packages/xo-server/src/xapi/index.mjs#L942-L981. So a stopped VM in that batch would give this, which fits what you remember. I haven't tried the batch migrate from the UI itself though, so I don't know if the UI is supposed to filter halted VMs out before that. It's a good concrete example for the feedback post anyway, XO could just say "this VM is halted" instead of passing XAPI's raw code through.

@poddingue I'm using XOA 6.2.2. Unfortunately not able to update at the moment. Which reminds me of another thing. Where is there release information for the XOA XVA itself? When I login to my account, there is only the download button but no information on what version it is. [image: image.jpeg] I would like to know when a new version is published and a changelog for it. When I import the current XVA it is tagged with 2025.12 [image: image.jpeg]

This came up in https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/11728 last winter, with the same kind of setup, an ISO SR served by a VM on the host. Olivier's answer there was to eject the CDs from the VMs, unplug the ISO SR's PBD, and only then shut the host down, using xe vm-cd-eject --multiple and xe pbd-unplug uuid=<PBD UUID> for the first two steps (the PBD one is in the CLI reference: https://docs.xcp-ng.org/appendix/cli_reference#pbd-unplug). @mickwilli then added the unplug to his UPS shutdown script, and his host shut down cleanly after that. I haven't tried it with an SMB share myself, so I can't promise it behaves like his NFS one, but your NUT script on the Pi looks like the natural place for those two steps, just before the shutdown command.

@trelane Hello, the bug affects Xen drivers of any 9.0 series (considering the upstream code, it goes back to circa September 2019). 9.2.385 contains the fix, which was merged upstream just this month. The bug also impacts network connections, however to a lesser extent due to its nature. I believe that the bug is also present in XenServer VM Tools 9.6.0 and by extension, older versions of it. We recommend that you switch to the XCP-ng tools whenever possible, also due to its other benefits (fully open source, validated for XCP-ng and optimized for Xen Orchestra).

@bug-meister Nope. This is not Jinja nor any other kind of templating engine. This is a simple search-and-replace kind of implementation and is limited to name and %, the later being VM index. From the docs: Xen Orchestra offers the ability to insert variables such as the virtual machine name {name} or a virtual machine index %. However, the expressive power is limited to the graphical interface. For instance, it is not possible to build a series of virtual machines with complex values or from external data. Reference: https://docs.xcp-ng.org/guides/create-use-custom-xcpng-ubuntu-templates/ In other words, there is no advanced templating of cloud-init configuration but you could probably template it outside XenOrchestra and apply it via Terraform: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/vatesfr/xenorchestra/latest/docs/resources/vm

Latest commit fixed the synchronized snapshots showing up as a vm... Commit 8c2f3 [image: Screenshot_20261005_060854.png]

@GregBinSD said: Here are two more notes regarding the XO6 "Unable to connect to XO server. Retry" message, which pops up after 30 seconds. It occurs when either the Chrome or the Microsoft Edge browsers are used on my Windows 11 PC. However, I often use a Samsung Tab-A9 (tablet), and it does not have this issue with XO6. It uses the Chrome browser. To enlighten you the Microsoft Edge your talking about is not the original release (from Windows 10). It’s the Chromium based release from during Windows 10 and has been that one ever since. The original release of Microsoft Edge had its own rendering engine called MSHTML. The current modern Edge effectively shares a common upstream code base with Google Chrome, namely Chromium. The Samsung Tab-A9 doesn’t have the issue even though it, uses the same browser namely Google Chrome. This is the case because the tablet uses a version of Google Android, which has its own kernel, which is a fork or variation of the Linux Kernel.

@anthoineb, Thanks for the fix! We plan to install blktap-3.55.5-11.1.xcpng8.3 on all three hypervisors tomorrow. We will fully shut down and start the data VMs one at a time, then verify that all running tapdisk processes use the updated binary. As the stalls are intermittent, we will monitor for recurrence and report back with the results.