XO won't reconnect to rebooted hosts?
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I updated to XO 5.54 from source this morning, then this afternoon I finally got around to applying the 8.2 December 2020 security updates on one final host. XO couldn't seem to reconnect to that host, despite my being able to see its console in read-only fashion. I had an SSH shell on the host, booted a VM and connected to it externally, just nothing from within XO.
I restarted xcp-rrdd on the host, poked through logs on both host and XO VM, and upgraded XCP-NG Center on a Windows VM which could see host runtime statistics, no problem. I finally restarted xo-server on the XO VM and now things are fine.
A minor snafu, though I couldn't ferret out anything more helpful in case this may be a valid bug - sorry. Curious if anyone else is seeing this behavior?
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@donsizemore did an update for XO from source (XOFS) using the third party script way from xo-server 5.71.1 to 5.73.0 and xo-web 5.75.0 to 5.76.0. No problems with two XOFS installations on my homelab / playlab with XCP-ng 8.2.0 fully patched.
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@gskger same, except I had one nearly-patched host prior to the XOFS upgrade. I blame me for doing things out of order (and am a huge fan of XCP-NG and XO in general)
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@donsizemore yes, updates of XOFS usualy go super easy
. To be honest, I'm looking forward to XO6 in the future and hope that some functions will be taken over from XenCenter / XenAdmin (apart from the obvious tree view) 
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@gskger what feature specifically? Interested to learn what's left
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@olivierlambert I think my remark is more UI/UX related. What made me comment here is that XO 5.54 now comes with maintenance mode (which by the way is great). While it is only one right-click on a host to choose this option in XenCenter/XenAdmin (XC) it takes three clicks in XO to get to the same point. And you must go from the UI left to the UI right side, so some unnecessary mouse movement as well.
When initially XC did not support XCP-ng 8.2, I used XO from source for my daily work solely. Functionally everything works fine of course, but the controls and menus to me feel not placed well for an intuitive workflow / my way of working. Don't get me wrong here: XO is already on a high ease of use level and this is only my subjective lamenting on details!
When I updated XC to check out the management interface and VLAN topic, I instantly felt gravitating back to XC. But that for sure is partly me. Are you planning to involve the XO user community into the XO6 design process or share mockups for feedback?
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Yes, that's the plan: involving community for feedback. But keep in mind we don't want to make a clone of XenCenter
It's a web application, so it comes with some perks but also drawbacks from a heavy client (you are running in a browser with XO, and we don't want to change all web behavior without necessity to do it).
Thanks for the feedback
(so feature wise I think we are at parity level, UI it's another story I agree)
