Alcatel OXE on XCP-ng – anyone done this before?

[mz05er]

Hi all,

VMware refugee here. We’re currently evaluating XCP-ng for our environment and so far everything looks very promising – except for one case.

I’m trying to run an Alcatel OXE (OmniPCX Enterprise) on XCP-ng using XO. We received an OVA from ALE (professional services), which is intended for VMware. Officially OXE is supported on VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, Nutanix and AWS.

The system itself is based on Rocky Linux, but heavily customized.

I was able to get the image running on Proxmox.

On XCP-ng:

• Importing the OVA via XO works
• The VM starts
• But it always ends in a dracut-initqueue timeout

Since there are multiple deployment methods for OXE, I was wondering if someone here has already gone through this and could share some experience or hints.

I’m aware that this is not an officially supported platform, but we’re currently exploring alternatives and I really like what I see with XCP-ng so far.

So the main question:
Has anyone successfully run OXE on XCP-ng?

Any input would be appreciated.

(i just realized by reading the text, a lot of X here... )
Thanks!

[olivierlambert]

Hi!

Very likely missing Xen drivers in the image. See https://docs.xcp-ng.org/installation/migrate-to-xcp-ng/#-from-kvm-libvirt that could be helpful.

Keep us posted and welcome!

edit: it's one way to do it, but booting on a live CD (eg Ubuntu) and mount the VM disk to do the dracut command with chroot first will also work if you don't have a buffer machine to do the dracut then export. If you need more details, happy to guide you.