XCP-ng 8.2.0 beta now available!

mimi89999

stormi said in XCP-ng 8.2.0 beta now available!:

Guest tools ISO: Citrix doesn't provide a guest tools ISO anymore in Citrix Hypervisor. They replaced it with downloads from their internet website. We chose to retain the feature and still provide a guest tools ISO that you can mount to your VMs. Many thanks to the XAPI developers who have kept the related source code for us in the XAPI project, rather than delete it.

I think that the best solution would be to have them packaged by distros. It will also make installs much easier.

Forza

I agree here. Package xcp-ng tools for the main distros out there. Fedora, Centos, Ubuntu, Debian, OpenSuse, FreeBSD etc.. Not sure about Windows though. Perhaps an ISO is easiest way to distribute the tools?

stormi

The tools are packaged already for many of the distros you mentioned. However this is work that takes time and depends on the willingness of contributors from each distro, so a guest tools ISO remains useful in my view.

stormi

To everyone: don't forget to update your XCP-ng 8.2 beta hosts from time to time (yum update).

Recent updates include Xen and Linux kernel security updates, the latest uefistored that fixes UEFI support for Windows Server 2016's installer, updated Intel e1000e drivers in order to support more devices, updated ZFS packages to version 0.8.5, updated zstd to 1.4.5.

olivierlambert

Updates done in my home lab and everything is working great so far

sr

stormi said in XCP-ng 8.2.0 beta now available!:

updated Intel e1000e drivers in order to support more devices

Can anyone point me on where to find more details on this. Can't find anything about it in the latest commit of the kernel rpm repo. Probably I am looking in the wrong place.

stormi

sr See https://github.com/xcp-ng-rpms/intel-e1000e and https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/15817

stormi

By the way, this thread is now superseded by the RC thread: https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/3769/xcp-ng-8-2-0-rc-now-available

jmccoy555

hoerup I've been running a Ceph hyper-convered set up since April, and its worked well for me (I'm no expert)!

hoerup

jmccoy555 Could I pursuade you to make a post, describing your setup and summarizing any findings ?

jmccoy555

hoerup Hi, I can't remember too much to be honest.

I created a Debian 10 VM with 20GB disk, set up all the stuff that needed to be common for the Ceph pool pretty much following the Ceph documentation using the cephadm method - so Docker etc. This would be my 'Ceph admin VM'

Once that was all sorted I cloned the VM 3 times, for my actual Ceph pool and changed the hostname and static IP etc. I've got 3 hosts with Supermicro boards that have two SATA controllers on board, so on each one I passed though one of the controllers to the Ceph VM and then just deployed Ceph and followed the documentation. The only issues I ran into and any other tips are in the other post I linked to. Now Ceph is all containerised it all seams a bit too easy! Hope they're not my famous last words!! It does like a lot of RAM, so I've reduced the OSD limits down a bit and its fine for me.

Cheers.