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    • stormiS Offline
      stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team
      last edited by

      By the way, if someone wants to have a look at how to build gpumon from its source RPM and prove me wrong about the impossibility to do it only with FOSS tools, I'll gladly revise my judgment πŸ™‚

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      • M Offline
        marekm @stormi
        last edited by

        @stormi OK, just asked since the issue is about a year old and still unanswered by Citrix, wondering why it didn't show up in earlier xcp-ng releases. Perhaps they have only recently made some change to XAPI so it requires gpumon, and this change could be reverted (or better yet, fixed to handle the missing package gracefully, not hang the whole machine at boot time).

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        • stormiS Offline
          stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team @marekm
          last edited by

          @marekm said in Updates announcements and testing:

          @stormi OK, just asked since the issue is about a year old and still unanswered by Citrix, wondering why it didn't show up in earlier xcp-ng releases. Perhaps they have only recently made some change to XAPI so it requires gpumon, and this change could be reverted (or better yet, fixed to handle the missing package gracefully, not hang the whole machine at boot time).

          It's simpler: it's only with XCP-ng 8.1 that I have removed gpumon. That was a mistake so I had to put it back.

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          • M Offline
            marekm @stormi
            last edited by

            @stormi Thanks. Is this https://github.com/xenserver/gpumon - if yes, it doesn't look like something big, perhaps could be patched to remove dependency on proprietary nvidia stuff.

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            • stormiS Offline
              stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team
              last edited by

              Yes, it's this. I've also create an issue for the XAPI project, that got good reception from the devs. All agree that XAPI should be able to start even if gpumon is not there.

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              • stormiS Offline
                stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team
                last edited by stormi

                Note that patching gpumon so that it doesn't depend on nVIDIA stuff probably just means making it a stub service that always answers the same regardless of the actual state of the GPUs.

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                • stormiS Offline
                  stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team
                  last edited by

                  Following yesterday's Xen security updates released by Citrix, here are test packages with security patches. As usual with security matters, they need to be tested quickly so that we can release them to everyone fast.

                  On XCP-ng 8.1

                  # on an up to date host
                  yum clean all --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing
                  yum update xen-dom0-libs xen-dom0-tools xen-hypervisor xen-libs xen-tools --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing
                  

                  reboot (master first)

                  On XCP-ng 8.0

                  This batch of updates contains not only security fixes but also bug fixes that I had queued for the next patch train.

                  # on an up to date host
                  yum clean all --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing
                  yum update bugtool-conn-tests qlogic-netxtreme2 qlogic-netxtreme2-4.19.0+1-modules sm sm-rawhba xen-dom0-libs xen-dom0-tools xen-hypervisor xen-libs xen-tools xenserver-status-report --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing
                  

                  reboot (master first)

                  On XCP-ng 7.6

                  XCP-ng 7.6 is not supported anymore, so there are no updates available for it.

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                  • stormiS Offline
                    stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team
                    last edited by

                    Hi users!

                    Today's the last day to install the update candidate and give feedback. If you have any test host, please install and reboot. That's it and it's useful to us.

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                    • stormiS Offline
                      stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team
                      last edited by

                      Update released: April 2020 XCP-ng Security Updates

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                      • stormiS Offline
                        stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team
                        last edited by

                        Intel CPUs "CROSSTalk" vulnerability.

                        Following the disclosure of the CROSSTalk CPU vulnerabilities and the release of updated microcode by Intel, here are update candidates for XCP-ng 8.0 and 8.1. Prompt feedback by all available testers is wanted.

                        Details and discussion in the dedicated thread.

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                        • stormiS Offline
                          stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team
                          last edited by

                          Update published: https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2020/06/12/intel-microcode-security-update-crosstalk/

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                          • stormiS Offline
                            stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team
                            last edited by

                            I haven't had many tests from the community for the previous updates.

                            I'm still trying to convince myself that I can count on the community to test updates before they are released to everyone, in addition to our internal testing.

                            So, here are new update candidates, related to the latest Xen security advisories, for XCP-ng 8.0 and 8.1.

                            Install them with

                            yum update xen-dom0-libs xen-dom0-tools xen-hypervisor xen-libs xen-tools --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing
                            

                            and reboot.

                            Your host is just supposed to keep working normally as before.

                            Thanks in advance.

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                            • H Offline
                              HeMaN @stormi
                              last edited by

                              @stormi
                              Did the update and a reboot just minutes ago.
                              Dell R710 / dual xeon L5640 / 96GB
                              XCP-ng 8.1 with latest patches / pool with a single host

                              System is working as expected so far.
                              If I notice anything during usage I will report back here

                              [20:41 xenserver ~]# yum update
                              Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
                              Determining fastest mirrors
                              Excluding mirror: updates.xcp-ng.org
                               * xcp-ng-base: mirrors.xcp-ng.org
                              Excluding mirror: updates.xcp-ng.org
                               * xcp-ng-updates: mirrors.xcp-ng.org
                              dell-system-update_dependent                             | 2.3 kB     00:00
                              dell-system-update_independent                           | 2.3 kB     00:00
                              xcp-ng-base/signature                                    |  473 B     00:00
                              xcp-ng-base/signature                                    | 3.0 kB     00:00 !!!
                              xcp-ng-updates/signature                                 |  473 B     00:00
                              xcp-ng-updates/signature                                 | 3.0 kB     00:00 !!!
                              No packages marked for update
                              [20:42 xenserver ~]# yum update xen-dom0-libs xen-dom0-tools xen-hypervisor xen-libs xen-tools --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing
                              Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
                              Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
                              Excluding mirror: updates.xcp-ng.org
                               * xcp-ng-base: mirrors.xcp-ng.org
                              Excluding mirror: updates.xcp-ng.org
                               * xcp-ng-testing: mirrors.xcp-ng.org
                              Excluding mirror: updates.xcp-ng.org
                               * xcp-ng-updates: mirrors.xcp-ng.org
                              xcp-ng-testing/signature                                 |  473 B     00:00
                              xcp-ng-testing/signature                                 | 3.0 kB     00:00 !!!
                              xcp-ng-testing/primary_db                                  |  31 kB   00:00
                              Resolving Dependencies
                              --> Running transaction check
                              ---> Package xen-dom0-libs.x86_64 0:4.13.0-8.5.1.xcpng8.1 will be updated
                              ---> Package xen-dom0-libs.x86_64 0:4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1 will be an update
                              ---> Package xen-dom0-tools.x86_64 0:4.13.0-8.5.1.xcpng8.1 will be updated
                              ---> Package xen-dom0-tools.x86_64 0:4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1 will be an update
                              ---> Package xen-hypervisor.x86_64 0:4.13.0-8.5.1.xcpng8.1 will be updated
                              ---> Package xen-hypervisor.x86_64 0:4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1 will be an update
                              ---> Package xen-libs.x86_64 0:4.13.0-8.5.1.xcpng8.1 will be updated
                              ---> Package xen-libs.x86_64 0:4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1 will be an update
                              ---> Package xen-tools.x86_64 0:4.13.0-8.5.1.xcpng8.1 will be updated
                              ---> Package xen-tools.x86_64 0:4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1 will be an update
                              --> Finished Dependency Resolution
                              
                              Dependencies Resolved
                              
                              ================================================================================
                               Package           Arch      Version                    Repository         Size
                              ================================================================================
                              Updating:
                               xen-dom0-libs     x86_64    4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1      xcp-ng-testing    618 k
                               xen-dom0-tools    x86_64    4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1      xcp-ng-testing    1.7 M
                               xen-hypervisor    x86_64    4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1      xcp-ng-testing    2.3 M
                               xen-libs          x86_64    4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1      xcp-ng-testing     35 k
                               xen-tools         x86_64    4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1      xcp-ng-testing     26 k
                              
                              Transaction Summary
                              ================================================================================
                              Upgrade  5 Packages
                              
                              Total download size: 4.7 M
                              Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
                              Downloading packages:
                              Delta RPMs disabled because /usr/bin/applydeltarpm not installed.
                              (1/5): xen-dom0-libs-4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64.rpm      | 618 kB   00:00
                              (2/5): xen-dom0-tools-4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64.rpm     | 1.7 MB   00:00
                              (3/5): xen-libs-4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64.rpm           |  35 kB   00:00
                              (4/5): xen-tools-4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64.rpm          |  26 kB   00:00
                              (5/5): xen-hypervisor-4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64.rpm     | 2.3 MB   00:01
                              --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                              Total                                              3.1 MB/s | 4.7 MB  00:01
                              Running transaction check
                              Running transaction test
                              Transaction test succeeded
                              Running transaction
                                Updating   : xen-hypervisor-4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64                 1/10
                                Updating   : xen-libs-4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64                       2/10
                                Updating   : xen-dom0-libs-4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64                  3/10
                                Updating   : xen-tools-4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64                      4/10
                                Updating   : xen-dom0-tools-4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64                 5/10
                                Cleanup    : xen-dom0-tools-4.13.0-8.5.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64                 6/10
                                Cleanup    : xen-tools-4.13.0-8.5.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64                      7/10
                                Cleanup    : xen-libs-4.13.0-8.5.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64                       8/10
                                Cleanup    : xen-dom0-libs-4.13.0-8.5.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64                  9/10
                                Cleanup    : xen-hypervisor-4.13.0-8.5.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64                10/10
                                Verifying  : xen-dom0-libs-4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64                  1/10
                                Verifying  : xen-libs-4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64                       2/10
                                Verifying  : xen-tools-4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64                      3/10
                                Verifying  : xen-hypervisor-4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64                 4/10
                                Verifying  : xen-dom0-tools-4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64                 5/10
                                Verifying  : xen-dom0-libs-4.13.0-8.5.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64                  6/10
                                Verifying  : xen-tools-4.13.0-8.5.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64                      7/10
                                Verifying  : xen-dom0-tools-4.13.0-8.5.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64                 8/10
                                Verifying  : xen-hypervisor-4.13.0-8.5.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64                 9/10
                                Verifying  : xen-libs-4.13.0-8.5.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64                      10/10
                              
                              Updated:
                                xen-dom0-libs.x86_64 0:4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1
                                xen-dom0-tools.x86_64 0:4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1
                                xen-hypervisor.x86_64 0:4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1
                                xen-libs.x86_64 0:4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1
                                xen-tools.x86_64 0:4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1
                              
                              Complete!
                              [20:42 xenserver ~]# reboot
                              
                              
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                              • gskgerG Offline
                                gskger Top contributor
                                last edited by

                                Same here.
                                Updated a Dell R720 / dual Intel Xeon CPU E5-2640 v2 / 64GB
                                XCP-ng 8,1 fully patched
                                Standalone host

                                Still have to do some testing on / with VMs, but this is something for the weekend.

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                                • stormiS Offline
                                  stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team
                                  last edited by

                                  Update published. Thanks for testing!

                                  https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2020/07/10/july-2020-xcp-ng-security-updates/

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                                  • stormiS Offline
                                    stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team
                                    last edited by

                                    Hi everyone.

                                    An update candidate is available for netdata packages in XCP-ng 8.0 and 8.1. Feedback about it is welcome.

                                    They fix two issues:

                                    • a buffer overflow in JSON parsing, that could pose a security threat
                                    • netdata logs being flooded due to a bug in the computation of the last vcpu number

                                    To install the update candidate on XCP-ng 8.0 or 8.1:

                                    yum update "netdata*" --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing
                                    

                                    This will update the netdata and netdata-ui RPMs if they are installed on the host.

                                    You can also install them if not already present with:

                                    yum install netdata-ui --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing
                                    

                                    Note that installing netdata-ui automatically opens port 19999.

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                                    • antoniolfdacruzA Offline
                                      antoniolfdacruz
                                      last edited by

                                      [10:37 xcpngp02h01 ~]# yum update "netdata*" --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing
                                      Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
                                      Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
                                      Excluding mirror: updates.xcp-ng.org
                                       * xcp-ng-base: mirrors.xcp-ng.org
                                      Excluding mirror: updates.xcp-ng.org
                                       * xcp-ng-testing: mirrors.xcp-ng.org
                                      Excluding mirror: updates.xcp-ng.org
                                       * xcp-ng-updates: mirrors.xcp-ng.org
                                      xcp-ng-testing/signature                                 |  473 B     00:00     
                                      xcp-ng-testing/signature                                 | 3.0 kB     00:00 !!! 
                                      xcp-ng-testing/primary_db                                  |  22 kB   00:01     
                                      Resolving Dependencies
                                      --> Running transaction check
                                      ---> Package netdata.x86_64 0:1.19.0-3.xcpng8.1 will be updated
                                      ---> Package netdata.x86_64 0:1.19.0-4.xcpng8.1 will be an update
                                      ---> Package netdata-debuginfo.x86_64 0:1.19.0-3.xcpng8.1 will be updated
                                      ---> Package netdata-debuginfo.x86_64 0:1.19.0-4.xcpng8.1 will be an update
                                      ---> Package netdata-ui.x86_64 0:1.19.0-3.xcpng8.1 will be updated
                                      ---> Package netdata-ui.x86_64 0:1.19.0-4.xcpng8.1 will be an update
                                      --> Finished Dependency Resolution
                                      
                                      Dependencies Resolved
                                      
                                      ================================================================================
                                       Package              Arch      Version                 Repository         Size
                                      ================================================================================
                                      Updating:
                                       netdata              x86_64    1.19.0-4.xcpng8.1       xcp-ng-testing     11 M
                                       netdata-debuginfo    x86_64    1.19.0-4.xcpng8.1       xcp-ng-testing    1.6 M
                                       netdata-ui           x86_64    1.19.0-4.xcpng8.1       xcp-ng-testing    6.4 k
                                      
                                      Transaction Summary
                                      ================================================================================
                                      Upgrade  3 Packages
                                      
                                      Total download size: 13 M
                                      Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
                                      Downloading packages:
                                      Delta RPMs disabled because /usr/bin/applydeltarpm not installed.
                                      (1/3): netdata-debuginfo-1.19.0-4.xcpng8.1.x86_64.rpm      | 1.6 MB   00:02     
                                      (2/3): netdata-ui-1.19.0-4.xcpng8.1.x86_64.rpm             | 6.4 kB   00:00     
                                      (3/3): netdata-1.19.0-4.xcpng8.1.x86_64.rpm                |  11 MB   00:12     
                                      --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                      Total                                              1.1 MB/s |  13 MB  00:12     
                                      Running transaction check
                                      Running transaction test
                                      Transaction test succeeded
                                      Running transaction
                                        Updating   : netdata-1.19.0-4.xcpng8.1.x86_64                             1/6 
                                        Updating   : netdata-ui-1.19.0-4.xcpng8.1.x86_64                          2/6 
                                        Updating   : netdata-debuginfo-1.19.0-4.xcpng8.1.x86_64                   3/6 
                                        Cleanup    : netdata-ui-1.19.0-3.xcpng8.1.x86_64                          4/6 
                                        Cleanup    : netdata-debuginfo-1.19.0-3.xcpng8.1.x86_64                   5/6 
                                        Cleanup    : netdata-1.19.0-3.xcpng8.1.x86_64                             6/6 
                                        Verifying  : netdata-debuginfo-1.19.0-4.xcpng8.1.x86_64                   1/6 
                                        Verifying  : netdata-1.19.0-4.xcpng8.1.x86_64                             2/6 
                                        Verifying  : netdata-ui-1.19.0-4.xcpng8.1.x86_64                          3/6 
                                        Verifying  : netdata-ui-1.19.0-3.xcpng8.1.x86_64                          4/6
                                        Verifying  : netdata-1.19.0-3.xcpng8.1.x86_64                             5/6 
                                        Verifying  : netdata-debuginfo-1.19.0-3.xcpng8.1.x86_64                   6/6 
                                      
                                      Updated:
                                        netdata.x86_64 0:1.19.0-4.xcpng8.1                                            
                                        netdata-debuginfo.x86_64 0:1.19.0-4.xcpng8.1                                  
                                        netdata-ui.x86_64 0:1.19.0-4.xcpng8.1                                         
                                      
                                      Complete!
                                      [12:47 xcpngp02h01 ~]# 
                                      [12:50 xcpngp02h01 ~]# systemctl status netdata.service 
                                      ? netdata.service - Real time performance monitoring
                                         Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/netdata.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
                                         Active: active (running) since Thu 2020-07-16 12:50:46 -03; 10s ago
                                        Process: 9810 ExecStartPre=/usr/libexec/netdata/xcpng-iptables-restore.sh (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
                                        Process: 9807 ExecStartPre=/bin/chown -R netdata:netdata /var/run/netdata (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
                                        Process: 9804 ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir -p /var/run/netdata (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
                                        Process: 9800 ExecStartPre=/bin/chown -R netdata:netdata /var/cache/netdata (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
                                        Process: 9797 ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir -p /var/cache/netdata (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
                                       Main PID: 9816 (netdata)
                                         CGroup: /system.slice/netdata.service
                                                 ??9816 /usr/sbin/netdata -P /var/run/netdata/netdata.pid -D -W set...
                                                 ??9849 /usr/bin/python /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/python.d.plu...
                                                 ??9852 /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/go.d.plugin 1
                                                 ??9854 /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/freeipmi.plugin 1
                                                 ??9857 /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/xenstat.plugin 1
                                                 ??9867 /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/apps.plugin 1
                                      [12:50 xcpngp02h01 ~]# 
                                      
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                                        antoniolfdacruz
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                                        • B Offline
                                          Biggen
                                          last edited by

                                          Doe the netdata update not actually fix the missing network interfaces or virtual drives?

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                                          • antoniolfdacruzA Offline
                                            antoniolfdacruz @Biggen
                                            last edited by

                                            @Biggen I am not aware of this problem. Mine (updated) displays the server's 6 physical eth interfaces and 3 more xapi0 ~ xapi2 and 9 physical drives sda to sdi. I still not have multipath configured in the servers.

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