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    XO Lite: building an embedded UI in XCP-ng

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    • apzA Offline
      apz @olivierlambert
      last edited by

      @olivierlambert I figured it was a case of work-in-progress software and I'm fine with it knowing it will be 100% local when it's ready for showtime.

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        Greg_E
        last edited by

        Having what is essentially XCP-NG Center from a browser would be nice, no more need to install something on a Windows machine just to get some basic stuff set up until you get a full XOA instance running. Yes I know you can just grab the demo with a single command, but sometimes you want to configure a few things first.

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        • T Offline
          tony
          last edited by

          Its a start of something great, need more functions though! For example:

          • VM controls (start/stop)
          • VM Information
          • VM Import/Export
          • Add/remove storage
          • SR Information
          • Insert/remove dvd
          • Toolstacksrestart
          • Warnings (low memory/storage space)
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          • xiscoX Offline
            xisco @tony
            last edited by

            @tony I agree, but I think the most important is to start/stop a machine, the other can be done with XO

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            • GheppyG Offline
              Gheppy
              last edited by Gheppy

              To be a good alternative to XCP-NG Center you have to do at least what XCP-NG Center does.
              E.g:

              • I haven't found in XOCE, so far, how to rearrange the VHDs of a VM, the only method, which I found , is to reattach them in the order I want,
              • To be able to snopshoot,
              • To be able to import and export,
              • To be able to migrate a VM, implicitly to be able to add another host on which to migrate the VM. This is good when the current host has a problem,
              • To group VMs by hosts, sometimes it is more useful to see which VMs are affected if you restart a host, XOCE displays them all but you cannot group/subgroup them on hosts that they are running on,
              • It can be restarted even if it is the only host, XOCE only wants it if the VMs are all turned off.

              In essence, XCP-NG Center does almost everything XOCE does, but manually. Which is OK when you have a breakdown.

              Don't get me wrong I use XOCE the most and I understand its importance but sometimes a XCP-NG Center is good to have, especially a local one on the host.

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              • D Offline
                dane7791 @Gheppy
                last edited by

                i agree with @gheppy to have XCP-ng center run as a service on a sin out VM would be nice and with all the features of XOA instead of having to run XOA from sources to get all the features...you can run snapshots on a schedule with the center app and keep X number of iterations but are limited to local drive. instead of XO LITE why not go for xcp-ng center as a service with all options to run on a VM...i don know about most but i like the look and feel of xcp-ng center

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                • olivierlambertO Offline
                  olivierlambert Vates πŸͺ Co-Founder CEO
                  last edited by olivierlambert

                  @Gheppy it's a bit off topic but:

                  1. You can rearrange disk in Xen Orchestra, you can drag and drop them

                  I'm not sure to understand the rest, because that's precisely the goal of XO Lite, being able to get rid of XCP-ng Center to manage your pool, with equivalent features.

                  Did you missed the first post maybe? @dane7791 seems affected by the same problem. Please take time to read the first post with the link to the blog article. Everything is explained in there πŸ™‚

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                  • A Offline
                    adriangabura
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                    @olivierlambert

                    ERROR: cannot verify lite.xen-orchestra.com's certificate, issued by β€˜/C=US/O=Let's Encrypt/CN=R3’:
                      Issued certificate has expired.
                    To connect to lite.xen-orchestra.com insecurely, use `--no-check-certificate'.
                    

                    Just a heads-up your certificate expired.

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                    • olivierlambertO Offline
                      olivierlambert Vates πŸͺ Co-Founder CEO
                      last edited by olivierlambert

                      Hi,

                      No the certificate is fine. The issue is on your side, from the XCP-ng version you have I assume (not fully up to date?)

                      Capture d’écran de 2022-05-02 10-49-41.png

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                      • J Offline
                        john.c
                        last edited by john.c

                        @olivierlambert The command for wget specified in the initial post, will always re-download the xolite file. So can't be used in a crontab operation during the beta, in order to update the file locally.

                        However the following may be utilised as part of a crontab command section, line entry.

                        wget -N https://lite.xen-orchestra.com/dist/ -O /opt/xensource/www/xolite.html
                        

                        The additional option I added to the post here, will cause wget to check if the remote file to be downloaded has changed at all. Then only download the file if the remote has changed, otherwise will not. That will therefore as a result save a lot of bandwidth, for Vates when downloading the html file, if the check and download isn't too often!

                        So when this item has been validated, and if Vates agrees and allows can the original post be updated with the new wget specified here please?

                        Also the crontab entry and your downloaded xolite html will also need to be removed, once the XO Lite fully gets, rolled out as part of an updated XCP-ng. This in my opinion will have the likely hood of happening, during one of the 8.2 point releases as long as it fits the LTS rules, more likely though will be in 8.3 or later, and while in the next LTS release series.

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                          john.c
                          last edited by john.c

                          @olivierlambert @clemencebx What vocabulary will be used when there's at least two layers (levels) of priority? Think of how old legacy bios system boards, handled the IDE physical drive boot priority connections! As well as documented in the manuals, for said items.

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                            redy
                            last edited by

                            Hi,
                            Great work so far!
                            My suggestion is to have xo.little as little as possible, so:

                            1. create/add storage(iso) is a must to have
                            2. create/add network is a must to have
                            3. create/add VM is must to have
                              all other things can be done after installing XO πŸ™‚
                              It was a challenge to configure a lab env. from scratch without WindowsPC so xo.lite is a good direction
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                            • konsultanerK Offline
                              konsultaner
                              last edited by

                              @olivierlambert how can one contribute to XO-Lite? I might get some time for at least some simple features.

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                              • olivierlambertO Offline
                                olivierlambert Vates πŸͺ Co-Founder CEO
                                last edited by

                                Hi @konsultaner !

                                Let me ping the right person to assist on this πŸ™‚

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                                • ByscriptsB Offline
                                  Byscripts
                                  last edited by

                                  Hi @konsultaner.

                                  I'll have to check with the XO Lite team to see what needs to be done, but I can already tell you how to set up the project and get on board.

                                  1. Fork and clone the GitHub Repository
                                  2. Go to the @xen-orchestra/lite directory
                                  3. Copy the .env.dist file to .env and edit it to configure your XCP-ng server host URL (VITE_XO_HOST=http://...)
                                  4. Install dependencies: yarn install
                                  5. Run the dev server: yarn dev

                                  If all has gone well, you should be able to access the XO Lite Dashboard from http://localhost:3000

                                  Thank you.

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                                  • konsultanerK Offline
                                    konsultaner
                                    last edited by

                                    why is this part of the commercial repo? what if the lite has some of the commercial features?

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                                    • olivierlambertO Offline
                                      olivierlambert Vates πŸͺ Co-Founder CEO
                                      last edited by olivierlambert

                                      what are you talking about? There's no "commercial repo" πŸ€” Xen Orchestra repo is where we store all the XO source code, and the whole code is aGPLv3. I don't understand why are you talking about a "commercial repo" ?

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                                      • konsultanerK Offline
                                        konsultaner
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                                        @olivierlambert I thought I need a license to use all features of XO? I didn't go through all the code. I have another project, that only provides non-commercial parts of the product in the official repo and the enterprise parts are in a private repo. So I wasn't sure if XO had all code hosted in that repo or just the free to use features? I wasn't ment to be offending, sorry.

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                                        • olivierlambertO Offline
                                          olivierlambert Vates πŸͺ Co-Founder CEO
                                          last edited by olivierlambert

                                          @olivierlambert I thought I need a license to use all features of XO?

                                          No. It's even explained in our official documentation: see https://xen-orchestra.com/docs/installation.html#from-the-sources

                                          If you git pull from our repo, and build it, you'll have absolutely all XO features. It's not open core, it's true open source. Our business model is creating XOA -Xen Orchestra virtual Appliance- (a dedicated VM bundled with QA and support). XOA brings extra features unrelated to XO, like an easy way to update it, stable/latest channels, and some stuff linked to your xen-orchestra.com account.

                                          No worries and no offense πŸ™‚

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                                          • ByscriptsB Offline
                                            Byscripts @konsultaner
                                            last edited by Byscripts

                                            @konsultaner

                                            The complete source code is open source and freely available with no paywall.

                                            (And I don't think you were offending ^^)

                                            Edit: too late 😁

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