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    • tjkreidlT Offline
      tjkreidl Ambassador @jhansen
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      @jhansen Great news! Maybe the SR-IOV issue is driver-related - is there a newer driver available or perhaps some setting in the BIOS?

      And, yes, I bet wiping all the old partitions made a big difference.

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        jhansen @tjkreidl
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        @tjkreidl
        Yes I believe that too

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        • olivierlambertO Offline
          olivierlambert Vates πŸͺ Co-Founder CEO
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          Great news!

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            cocoon XCP-ng Center Team
            last edited by cocoon

            I just upgraded a virtual Test-Cluster from 8.2 to 8.3-Alpha and afterwards had on one console that it told me that I don't have a management Interface and even no network interfaces. Am "Emergency Network Reset" did not change anything .

            After checking everything, network was working, even ping was working ... I remembered my problem with the certificates I mentioned here already in November and yes, it was just the same problem with the old too short certificate 🀦

            But this leads me to the new "problem":
            Couldn't the xsconsole be improved to give a better hint than "no network interfaces"?
            Because it really means something like: Could't establish a connection to the master.

            Oh and one more thing:
            Is it by design that I cannot login to XO Light on the VM that is not the master?
            It just tells me "An error has occured"
            ... Ah just check the return value and it says error: "HOST_IS_SLAVE"
            This could also be improved or automatically redirect to the master as it contains the IP of the master in the response ... or in the end it might be good to be able to login if the master is not available for troubleshooting

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            • olivierlambertO Offline
              olivierlambert Vates πŸͺ Co-Founder CEO
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              Adding @pdonias for the XO Light question, however and FYI, you can't do anything without a master, that's the only place where you can call the XAPI. If you lose your master for good, you need to promote a slave to master so you can get back querying the XAPI.

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                cocoon XCP-ng Center Team @olivierlambert
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                @olivierlambert said in XCP-ng 8.3 public alpha πŸš€:

                you need to promote a slave to master so you can get back querying the XAPI.

                Yes I know, I mean a limited access mode or as you said, to make it master would be one task for troubleshooting that could be done if you could login (with warnings), generate/checking/exporting logfiles etc ... (and all you can do on xsconsole, see MAC addresses etc ...)

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                • olivierlambertO Offline
                  olivierlambert Vates πŸͺ Co-Founder CEO
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                  It's not possible, you can't speak to a slave at all via XAPI, so there's no limited mode possible. You must login and run a dedicated command to transform the node into a new master.

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                    cocoon XCP-ng Center Team @olivierlambert
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                    Oh I see, you don't plan to add more system near features?

                    All is just around xapi, even the login system. I thougt it would be more like on ESXi systems where you can manage the whole server from a web ui and will get features like the ones you can do from the local console screen.

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                    • jhansenJ Offline
                      jhansen @olivierlambert
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                      @olivierlambert
                      The first overnight tests went well.
                      Performens and stability are good. 😊
                      I have a question.
                      Do you recommend any specific Xen-Tools version for Windows and Linux on XCP-NG 8.3?
                      Currently have a mix of old and new versions on the various VM's.
                      The XO-Lite version doesn't have the big scope yet, but it looks very promising πŸ‘

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                        rRobbie
                        last edited by

                        Quick post to report that my home lab Intel NUC 11 N5105 is working without any issue since day one of the alpha release (not sure why you call it alpha then 😊).

                        Running VMs are: 1xWin10, 1xFedora, 2xUbuntu and XOA from source.

                        Thank you for supporting latest intel nuc!

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                        • olivierlambertO Offline
                          olivierlambert Vates πŸͺ Co-Founder CEO
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                          It's an alpha not because it's unstable πŸ˜‰ Just that we can make some updates before the official release. Happy to see it works well!

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                          • michael-newsrxM Offline
                            michael-newsrx
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                            Any updates in regards to getting nested Hyper-V working for WSL2?

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                            • olivierlambertO Offline
                              olivierlambert Vates πŸͺ Co-Founder CEO
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                              This is more a Xen question, if you want progress, you need to pressure create a very precise report on xen-devel. Easier to be fixed in upstream, faster it will be backported to Xen running in XCP-ng πŸ™‚

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                                stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team @jhansen
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                                @jhansen said in XCP-ng 8.3 public alpha πŸš€:

                                Do you recommend any specific Xen-Tools version for Windows and Linux on XCP-NG 8.3?

                                On Linux, you can simply install/update the tools from the guest tools ISO that is included in XCP-ng. If you already have tools working, there's no emergency: they haven't changed much in a while, and the part that affects performance and drivers is directly included in your distro's Linux kernel already.

                                On Windows, use Citrix tools if you plan to enable Secure Boot. Otherwise, ours generally work well (except for Secure Boot due to an expired signature key), but haven't been updated in a while and may have some shortcomings on newer Windows. We're still in the process of searching for a developer to improve them.

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                                • jhansenJ Offline
                                  jhansen @stormi
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                                  @stormi
                                  Thank you.
                                  At the moment all VMs are running with XCP-NG tools, including Windows (Win 10 and Server 2019)
                                  I'm looking for the latest tools from Citrix and will then set up a 2022 Server. Should I enable "receive updates from Windows Update" or rather disable it ?
                                  In the past, I often had problems that the Windows server no longer wanted to boot after some updates and then had to remove the updates manually.
                                  It's only a test environment, but it should work after reboot 😊

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                                  • stormiS Offline
                                    stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team @jhansen
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                                    @jhansen If you want to use Citrix tools, you can enable it. This will only install the drivers, not the management agent, though.

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                                      jhansen @stormi
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                                      @stormi
                                      Okay, I try
                                      Thanks

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                                        JurgenDM @stormi
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                                        @stormi

                                        Something I've noticed when trying Citrix Tools up to 9.2.2 that it breaks some parts of the network connections.
                                        On xcp-ng 8.2 (not tested on 8.3) I've tried multiple times, Active Directory goes out of sync due to network issues and Windows 10 and 11 can no longer connect to truenas SMB shares.
                                        I've not been able to pin point the root causes of the issue but it goes away when you uninstall the network driver.
                                        I'm really hoping this sort of issues will be resolved in drivers provided by you guys.

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                                        • olivierlambertO Offline
                                          olivierlambert Vates πŸͺ Co-Founder CEO
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                                          @JurgenDM if you have an active XCP-ng subscription, please create a ticket so we can prioritize some requests πŸ™‚

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                                            JurgenDM @olivierlambert
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                                            @olivierlambert

                                            I'm just an home/hobby enthusiast who likes to play/test and learn these sorts of things.
                                            So I cannot open a ticket, however if there is something I can contribute in the effort to be able to reproduce and solve the issue i'm happy to help.

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