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      steff22 @Strebor
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      Xcp-ng 8.3 beta did not work on Asus pn 52 with RTK8125B nic. Xcp-ng 8.3 does not find any network cards

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        olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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        Hi!

        @steff22 are you suggesting previous versions (eg Alpha) are?

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          steff22 @olivierlambert
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            steff22 @olivierlambert
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            @olivierlambert

            hi yes worked on alpha. Worked on Beta 1 now after I unplugged the power and plugged it back in.

            but are the same problem as with alpha, something is wrong with the drivers which make it so that I have 2.5 GB up and 40 mbps down or no speed. with Vm backup restore for me about 4MiB speed with a Samsung 970 PRO with 2 ssd inside Asus PN52.

            But after it got internet i see there are 88 patches. can install them and see if there is any change

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              stormi Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team @steff22
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              @steff22 88 patches on beta1 ? I haven't released any yet. Are you sure they come from our repositories?

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                steff22 @stormi
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                @stormi do not know. But there are 88 patches in Xen orchestra.

                did a fresh install from the iso. but suspect that I have chosen the wrong iso in ventoy now. says installer xcp-ng 8.3.0 is this alpha?

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                  steff22 @steff22
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                  @steff22 was probably alpha that I had to install. 😊

                  Reinstalled beta 1 now and no patches came up.
                  but is still the same network problem approx. 4 MiB in speed on backup restore

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                    stormi Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team
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                    @steff22 said in XCP-ng 8.3 beta 🚀:

                    RTK8125B

                    If I remember what @Andrew and others said correctly, this NIC is hard to support well, despite driver backporting efforts.

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                      steff22 @stormi
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                      @stormi yes, it seems that way. oh is that such a shame since the Asus pn52 has an AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX 8 cores/16 threads 3.3ghz cpu and up 64 gb ram

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                        Andrew Top contributor @steff22
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                        @steff22 My main home server is an Asus PN63-S1, but that's Intel i7 and i225 ethernet. It's a nice box (for an Intel). I like it for the dual M.2 NVMe so I can mirror my internal data, which has already saved me from Kingston NVMe failure.

                        I also have an ASRock 4X4 BOX-5600U with the 8125 and it works correctly. I just did a quick NFS read test (using dd) and get 115MBytes/sec (connected to 1G switch). I'll have to move it to the 2.5G switch and see what I get. There have been some reports (in general, not specific to this setup) of issues when using 2.5G connections.

                        I will build a new driver with the updated code form Realtek and see how it works.

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                          Andrew Top contributor @steff22
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                          @steff22 I tested the stock 8125 driver again on my ASRock AMD system and I have full read and write speed at 1G and 2.5G with native access and VLANs... I'll still try a driver update.

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                            gsrfan01
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                            Not sure if this is related to 8.3 quite yet, but having trouble joining a newly installed 8.3 beta server into a pool that was started from 8.3 alpha and updated.

                            Attempting to add the new host generates this error POOL_JOINING_HOST_TLS_VERIFICATION_MISMATCH which I only see a single other reference to mentioning CPU settings which as far as I can tell match between the 2 hosts.

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                              steff22 @Andrew
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                              @Andrew now see that I also get 118MBytes/sec (connected to 1G switch.

                              But I don't have a dedicated 2.5 switch. So it is connected to a 10G switch with rj45 sfp+ module which steps down to 2.5g. This solution worked perfectly in windows 10 with full 2.5G both directions on the same Asus pn52 with CrystalDiskMark over smb I got Sequential reed 0.42 MB/s and Write 292.80 MB/s with Xcp-ng win 10 vm

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                                steff22 @steff22
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                                @steff22 is one of these in the Asus pn52 RTL8125B-CG or Realtek® RTL8125BG-CG, by the way. is it standard RTL8125 even if it is B-CG or BG-CG

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                                  steff22 @steff22
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                                  By the way, is there a built-in driver for the Dell S140 in Xcp-ng?

                                  Too bad write speed on a Dell poweredge R440 with Samsung 860 evo ssd all the way down to 150MB/s write speed. The same ssd in a regular PC with Xcp-ng gave 560MB/s

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                                    Andrew Top contributor @steff22
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                                    @steff22 Let's continue the 8125 issue on your other network thread as it not directly a 8.3 beta problem.

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                                      gsrfan01 @gsrfan01
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                                      @gsrfan01 Follow up to this

                                      Turns out the existing pool has it sent to false while the new one was set to new

                                      New

                                      [17:06 prod-hv-xcpng02]# xe host-param-list uuid= 
                                      ...
                                      tls-verification-enabled ( RO): true
                                      [17:06 prod-hv-xcpng02]# xe host-param-list uuid= 
                                      tls-verification-enabled ( RO): true
                                      

                                      Old

                                      [17:06 prod-hv-xcpng02]# xe host-param-list uuid= 
                                      tls-verification-enabled ( RO): false
                                      [17:07 prod-hv-xcpng01]# xe pool-param-list uuid= 
                                      tls-verification-enabled ( RO): false
                                      

                                      Solution

                                      Ended up running xe pool-enable-tls-verification and xe host-emergency-reenable-tls-verification on the existing server and was then able to get the new server added to the pool.

                                      I was able to find very little documentation on these commands so I'm crossing fingers emergency-reenable-tls-verification doesn't cause any issues down the line but all seems good so far.

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                                        rRobbie
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                                        Hello there 😊

                                        Just updated from 8.3 alpha (updated to the latest patches) to 8.3 beta using XOA on a Intel NUC11ATKC4 and a Intel NUC8i5BEH.

                                        All went well, great job and so far super stable.

                                        Thank You
                                        RP

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                                          rRobbie @rRobbie
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                                          @rRobbie

                                          I quote myself to report a small issue, after the reboot following the upgrade to beta one VM did not auto power on-
                                          When I realized some services were not available I went and started the VM myself.

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                                          The other two VM with auto power on switch did power on without issues.

                                          Let me know if I can provide any other info.
                                          RP

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                                            olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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                                            @rRobbie can you disable/re-enable the "Auto power on" toggle, reboot and see if it works?

                                            If it doesn't, if the problematic VM is hosted on a storage repository that's inside a VM on the same host? (could be a "dependency" auto boot issue)

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