CentOS 7.6 to xcp-ng

XaaT

Re: Experimental update of CentOS packages

Hi there

As @stormi said in an old topic

The packages are synced with CentOS 7.5 for now, but CentOS 7.6 has been released so expect another update.

Well i'm expecting that repo for CentOS 7.6, is it alive ?

My only choices here are :

Install CentOS 7.6 (no 7.5 but 8.0 available)
- Try something to convert to a dom0 shitty thing
- Upgrade to last xcp-ng through python script @ http extracted iso
Do something at a rescue boot. I saw hertnzer got a "installimage" script..

edit : forgot to tell you that a i got an online.net box without KVM, just discovered that.
Got only CentOS 7.6 and 8.0 available (closest to XS/xcp)

XaaT

I'm fucked because I'm in 7.6?

edit: Well in fact i'm on a 7.7.1908
yum downgrade centos-release doesn't do anything

edit: may trying that thing : https://github.com/hetzneronline/installimage

edit: about downgrading :

Linux sd-155889 3.10.0-957.27.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jul 29 17:46:05 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@sd-155889 ~]# yum downgrade centos-release.x86_64 
Modules complémentaires chargés : fastestmirror, langpacks
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: mirror.plusserver.com
 * extras: mirror.plusserver.com
 * updates: mirror.plusserver.com
Rien à faire
```
edit more result with vault 7.6 repo enabled

XaaT

Finaly, i'm trying the trick "boot rescue, use qemu and boot xcp-ng iso and install on local drive" and pray for ping on reboot

(2000 ping, 0% ok right now ^^)

stormi

Hi. Unfortunately, there's no other way than booting from an ISO to install XCP-ng. You can't convert an CentOS into XCP-ng. The disk layout would not be good, and actually "our" OS runs as a Xen domain.