Turned off network boot for XOA in advanced and now broken

nodesocket

It appears that I broke Xen Orchestra by toggling off "Network Boot" in the advanced options of the VM. I have restarted the entire host multiple times and all the VM's come up except Xen Orchestra (xoa).

I am able to ssh into root @ dom0. What file or command can I modify to re-enable network boot for the Xen Orchesta VM?

uuid ( RO)           : e44ffb7e-334d-06e7-dd88-c25b580a69ae
     name-label ( RW): xoa
    power-state ( RO): halted

olivierlambert

I don't see the connection between boot order and your issue

Just xe vm-start uuid=e44ffb7e-334d-06e7-dd88-c25b580a69ae and then double check you have power on boot enabled.

nodesocket

I have triedd running:

xe vm-start uuid=e44ffb7e-334d-06e7-dd88-c25b580a69ae

The command, completes and I see the following for a little bit:

[11:55 localhost ~]# xe vm-list uuid=e44ffb7e-334d-06e7-dd88-c25b580a69ae
uuid ( RO)           : e44ffb7e-334d-06e7-dd88-c25b580a69ae
     name-label ( RW): XOA
    power-state ( RO): running

However after about 15 seconds, it reverts to:

[11:55 localhost ~]# xe vm-list uuid=e44ffb7e-334d-06e7-dd88-c25b580a69ae
uuid ( RO)           : e44ffb7e-334d-06e7-dd88-c25b580a69ae
     name-label ( RW): XOA
    power-state ( RO): halted

Is there a way to view the logs and inspect what is causing this? The reason I suspect it's the network boot toggle, is this is the only setting I changed. XOA has been running fine for nearly 6 months before this.

olivierlambert

Deploy another XOA and look at the console boot of this one

nodesocket

So sorry, but how do I deploy another XOA? The web form https://xen-orchestra.com/#!/xoa won't work as I don't expose XCP-NG to the public. Is there a command to deploy another XOA from the dom0 host of XCP-NG?

olivierlambert

It doesn't matter if XCP-ng is exposed to the public: if your browser can access it on the private IP, it will work. Your browser is acting as a "bridge" between the host and XOA file to download.

edit: and if you can't, there's a deploy script using CLI on your host: curl -sS https://xoa.io/deploy | bash

nodesocket

@olivierlambert said in Turned off network boot for XOA in advanced and now broken:

curl -sS https://xoa.io/deploy | bash

I was able to create a fresh new xoa instance using the web interface installer. When I tried to start my existing (broken) xoa again it tries to start, but then went to halted. I went into the console and see:

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Any ideas now?

nodesocket

Nevermind I got it back up. Somehow the disk boot was turned off in boot order. Either I made an error when I changed it and turned off disk instead of network, or perhaps some sort of UI bug in XOA. The most likely thing is that I made an error and toggled off disk instead of network.

Thank you so much for the help and assistance, I really appreciate it.

olivierlambert

No problem, happy to help