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    How does Xen Orchestra work.

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    • B Offline
      Biggen
      last edited by

      Runs as a VM either through their appliance (XOA) or through a dedicated Linux VM. You have to build it yourself if you are running it through a Linux VM. It’s referred to as XO Community Edition if done that way.

      Can’t be installed to the host directly.

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        Jarvar
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        Thank you so much @Biggen. I think I was coming to that conclusion last night that whatever happened it was going to be installed as a separate VM. I'm guessing that means I need to set the VM where XO is running to autostart if I was a web GUI to be accessible whenever XCP-ng is running.

        The other part was that XOA was having trouble with the install on my particular machine.

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        • DanpD Offline
          Danp Pro Support Team
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          @Jarvar said in Xen Orchestra vs. XPG-ng Center:

          Failed: HVM is required for this operation.

          Can you describe your hardware? Does it support virtualization? Is it enabled in the bios?

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            Jarvar @Danp
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            @Danp
            I don't have a bare metal system available for it right now. I did in the past, but it seems like some things have changed.
            I am running it in Virtualbox 6.0.14. Under Settings->System->Hardware
            Virtualization is enabled, but the nested feature under processor is greyed out.
            I have many other VMs already working with Virtualbox, from Ubuntu, CentOS to Windows.
            Thank you so much for chiming in.

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            • olivierlambertO Offline
              olivierlambert Vates πŸͺ Co-Founder CEO
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              You can install XO in whatever VM you want (even not hosted on XCP-ng, doesn't matter) as long as you can connect XO to the target pool/host (in Settings/server, you'll enter the IP address). You could even install XO on a RaspberryPi if you like πŸ˜›

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                Jarvar @olivierlambert
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                @olivierlambert

                If I installed XO on a different VM, then both would have to be on and can talk to each other in order to administrate XCP-ng. I'm just trying to figure out what the best options right now.

                Initially I had set my drives to have 100GB of space, after install it showed I had 58GB free. and now after install XOA it shows 14GB free. I had 2x 100GB drives installed as Software Raid1.
                Somehow I need to free up some space...

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                • olivierlambertO Offline
                  olivierlambert Vates πŸͺ Co-Founder CEO
                  last edited by

                  Check https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/wiki/Requirements

                  The free space (beyond system partitions) can be used as a local storage.

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                    Jarvar @olivierlambert
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                    @olivierlambert
                    Which one is the system partitions?
                    I am SSH'd into the system and this is the output from lsblk

                    xcp1.PNG

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                    • olivierlambertO Offline
                      olivierlambert Vates πŸͺ Co-Founder CEO
                      last edited by

                      / is the root partition, /var/log is in another dedicated one.

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                        Jarvar @olivierlambert
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                        @olivierlambert
                        Is there a list of commands in which I could use to navigate XCP-ng without a GUI using just the SSH or command line?

                        I removed the defunct XOA VM which was taking up 20GB, but it still shows only 14GB free out of 58GB

                        I think I saw somewhere that XCP-ng is closely related to Centos? or Debian... Is that correct or not really?

                        Thanks.

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                        • olivierlambertO Offline
                          olivierlambert Vates πŸͺ Co-Founder CEO
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                          xe CLI. Type xe --help.

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