Hello! Just an idea but maybe the PCI link speed you are seeing is related to some sort of energy saving feature? Background: I have a Nvidia GPU in my PC and when there is no load the PCIe speed is lowered from PCIe 4.0 to 1.1 due to energy saving feature. [image: 1782894839133-fbd06c41-50cb-4334-9c98-92a3b6573389-image.jpeg] So yeah, I think @teddyastie 's idea is a good approach here. Try how your setup behaves during a workload.

@the_jest Not showen in this picutre but this is where the message would be displayed. Next to the name of the host... [image: 1782931263879-screenshot-2026-07-01-144023.png]

For your storage question, it's fully explained in the doc: https://docs.xcp-ng.org/storage/#-how-to-modify-an-existing-sr-connection And yes, it's planned to get the complete error visible in XO, sadly, it's not "obvious" since the error message isn't returned by XAPI when you try to start but by another method we need to call after it fails ("assert can be started here" from the top of my head). Let me ping @julienXOvates

Meant to update this again last night - as a road map for those who might try similar at some point: This community's documentation led me to some relevant information on mouse/keyboard pass-through. Namely, if you want this to work you have to pass the entire PCI controller through to the guest(s), Won't work with motherboard devices. But I'm out of PCIe slots. What to do... Simple. Chuck the two serial adapters and install two dual USB 2.0 adapters in their places. Connect the keyboard/mouse to one of the ports and a 4/8/16 port USB to serial adapter to the other. Then pass the entire controller through. In this particular server (R810) I have 5 available PCIe slots. Two will be used for the video cards, one for a 4x NVMe to PCIe adapter (which is eventually where the VMs will reside) and the remaining two for the USB interfaces. This effectively gives me two discrete physical systems, a third available VM instance (say, for network management, monitoring or whatever) and the XOA instance. For application/radio control systems hypervisors (nested) I'll probably have 2ea Win11 and whatever flavor of Linux that supports the GT730 GPU on the system - each assigned the pass-through devices - but only two running at any given time. So no resource contention issues. As far as the displays: I have the main interface of the server connected via SIP to a 2160AS KVM. I'll take 2 more SIPs and use these as the keyboard/mouse inputs for the USB cards. Video...I use an HDMI active splitter on other systems in the network so I'll employ that here. One of the ports on the add-in GPUs goes to the splitter, one of the splitter outputs goes to the SIP via HDMI to VGA adapter and the other feeds the main ceiling mount monitor. The Primary display will be replicated to the KVM screen. Resolution isn't an issue as I have a video scaler inline with the KVM for just this scenario. The concept could be expanded. I'm looking at picking up a T630 and building 4 effective "systems" out of it, following the same principle. The 630 has 8 available PCIe slots. Will update when the next batch of hardware arrives - or I get the Linux side of things sorted. That's next.

Hello @mgr42 I can confirm that indeed today AMD iGPU passthrough is not working on XCP-ng. I am currently (slowly) working on it. There are other references about this topic in the Forum and on GitHub FYI: https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/11918/amd-barcelo-passthrough-issues-any-success-stories https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/8909/issue-to-load-gpu-passthrough-invalid-pci-rom-header-signature-expecting-0xaa55-got-0x4556 https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/issues/806 https://github.com/xapi-project/xen-api/commit/930ffb34e42d674b8234c3d8399fdba97efa6b38 On the setup I am working on, the Expansion ROM is provided indeed by firmware via the VFCT ACPI table. I dumped it to a file and provided it to qemu-dm xen-pci-passthrough device via the romfile= argument (via a modified XAPI build). I can now indeed see a ROM bar in the guest but unfortunately its content is not the content of the file therefore nothing works (amdgpu driver is unable to get its ROM and fails). So now I'm debugging qemu to try to understand the issue with the emulated/passed-through ROM BAR. Regards, Yann Kernel & Hypervisor team timemaster5 created this issue in xcp-ng/xcp open Unable to set romfile for xen-pci-passthrough devices #806 0 freddy77 committed to xapi-project/xen-api CA-418993: Enable PCI ROM BAR before attempting to give permissions to the VM Currently the VM is not able to access the ROM as the host ROM BAR is disabled and not set. Signed-off-by: Frediano Ziglio <frediano.ziglio@citrix.com>

@pedro_udifar we have found a clue , if the destination is encrypted and the source is not can you test this branch ? https://github.com/vatesfr/xen-orchestra/pull/10061 if you are using a xoa, we can deploy the fix if you open a support tunnel fbeauchamp opened this pull request in vatesfr/xen-orchestra open fix(fs): compute the output stream precisely when encrypted #10061

@olivierlambert Thanks for being so transparent about this. I suspect just updating that error message should be helpful enough. I was really struggling yesterday as I couldn’t figure out why my test plan was failing. Your suggestions did indeed work. In my case just disabling HA briefly did the trick

Well you both just made my Friday! I can follow directions after all!

@Pilow no.

@poddingue Thanks for the reply. I have been checking the source code of the Netbox plugin over the weekend and added the necessary code to enable the virtual disk sync. In Netbox itself, you do need to add the correct permission for it to work. Will do some more testing during the week, and create a pull-request once I'm satisfied with the result. Up to the Vates if they want to merge it into the main branch. Thank you for your reply!

Ping @julienXOVates

Ping @julienXOVates

I'm doing some testing on my RAID since it appears to be a RAID VDR52: The consistency check found inconsistent parity data on Virtual Disk 1 on Integrated RAID Controller 1. Buffer I/O error on dev dm-9 Buffer I/O error on dev dm-5 Buffer I/O error on dev dm-7 async page read I will keep everyone posted

Thanks, I made the feedback to the XO team, this will be fixed ASAP.

@yllar I'm not sure, maybe it'll slip to July. But what I can say is that the ISO is currently being tested in our QA process. Brace yourself, it's coming soon

@Tristis-Oris Hi, Can you upload your complete logs from one of these jobs, please? You can DM me if you prefer

@andibing said: I'm seeing this on XOA: xoa@xoa:~$ sudo xoa-updater --upgrade ✖ { message: 'missing string at offset 151' } xoa@xoa:~$ Unless the sun has got to me, I don't seen any other references to this error. And Gemini was confused too! Any thoughts? Can you please run “df -h” to start? If either / or /tmp/xoa-updater are low on space please increase disk space or run a clean up. The disk space on the VM and/or the SR may be too low, for the update to succeed. The XOA update metadata cache may have become corrupted and need to be cleared, before re-attempting the update. Checking the logs will help to determine if that’s the case.

Evening @pierrebrunet My bad. I am now on commit b440f and the issue persist. I have written you a message with the link to the file. Regards, Marc

I've installed the latest updates to all hosts, and restarted everything. I also have all xcp-ng logs going into loki now, so next time something happens I will see everything lol. [image: 1782860175138-156f9ac1-f1bb-47f3-a789-8551c8614805-image-resized.jpeg]