New Rust Xen guest tools
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I installed a Pop OS desktop. I noticed that the icon is missing. XOCE 8e65e.
Management agent 1.0.0-proto-0.3.0Installed using the apt repo.
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I remember reading somewhere that the icon system was going to be overhauled. I can't remember where exactly it was part of. In this instance, I feel the Ubuntu icon is perfectly acceptable, as this is an Ubuntu-based OS. -
Hello @ajpri1998! Can you confirm that running this in the guest does print
Pop!_OS?xenstore read data/os_distro -
We just released version 0.4.0. Biggest highlight is that it is not necessary any more to have
libxenstoreseparately installed in guests, so the new RPM is now compatible with RHEL/CentOS and similar distros.Details to be found at https://gitlab.com/xen-project/xen-guest-agent/-/releases/0.4.0
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@ajpri1998 Is it Ubuntu based or Debian? I've been debating switching to Debian from Ubuntu but I've also considered Pop.
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@CJ said in New Rust Xen guest tools:
@ajpri1998 Is it Ubuntu based or Debian? I've been debating switching to Debian from Ubuntu but I've also considered Pop.
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Based on Ubuntu, which Ubuntu is based on Debian. Pop is great. It's pretty much ubuntu + faster updating Kernel + a few added features. It's still very close to Ubuntu, although they are working at separating it more with their own DE.
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Icons will be easier to deal with in XO 6, so expect to have an easy way to contribute to add the icon of your choice for our new UI
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@yann installed tools on Rocky 8, but how to enable them?=)
And looks the old tools not removed.yum localinstall xen-guest-agent-0.4.0-0.fc37.x86_64.rpm Last metadata expiration check: 2:10:23 ago on Thu 01 Feb 2024 02:43:05 PM MSK. Dependencies resolved. ============================================================================================================================================================================ Package Architecture Version Repository Size ============================================================================================================================================================================ Installing: xen-guest-agent x86_64 0.4.0-0.fc37 @commandline 1.2 M Transaction Summary ============================================================================================================================================================================ Install 1 Package Total size: 1.2 M Installed size: 3.7 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: Running transaction check Transaction check succeeded. Running transaction test Transaction test succeeded. Running transaction Preparing : 1/1 Installing : xen-guest-agent-0.4.0-0.fc37.x86_64 1/1 Running scriptlet: xen-guest-agent-0.4.0-0.fc37.x86_64 1/1 Verifying : xen-guest-agent-0.4.0-0.fc37.x86_64 1/1 Installed: xen-guest-agent-0.4.0-0.fc37.x86_64 Complete! -
systemctl enable xe-linux-distribution systemctl start xe-linux-distributionI would think
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@DustinB said in New Rust Xen guest tools:
systemctl enable xe-linux-distribution
that for old tools, they still working.
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@Tristis-Oris said in New Rust Xen guest tools:
@DustinB said in New Rust Xen guest tools:
systemctl enable xe-linux-distribution
that for old tools, they still working.
Use the comparable
systemctl enable xe<TAB-Key for auto complete>And the same for
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@DustinB said in New Rust Xen guest tools:
systemctl enable xe
yep, found them.
full steps for RHEL:wget https://gitlab.com/xen-project/xen-guest-agent/-/jobs/6041608360/artifacts/raw/RPMS/x86_64/xen-guest-agent-0.4.0-0.fc37.x86_64.rpm rpm -i xen-guest-agent* yum remove -y xe-guest-utilities-latest systemctl enable xen-guest-agent.service --now -
@Tristis-Oris That's it - I thought it would not be necessary to dive into the details, as the RHEL/CentOS/etc policy is that newly installed services are not started by default (as a Debian guy I never understood why, but eh), and I assumed it would in every admin's cookbook already. Will add this together with the DEB instructions.
Thanks guys for the feedback!
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So, it works semi fine with Rocky 8.5-8.9 and probably any newer.
But now XO think that it usual Centos, not Rocky. Should i report that?
Incompatible with CentOS 7, well that obvious.
rpm -i xen-guest-agent* error: Failed dependencies: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.18)(64bit) is needed by xen-guest-agent-0.4.0-0.fc37.x86_64 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.25)(64bit) is needed by xen-guest-agent-0.4.0-0.fc37.x86_64 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.28)(64bit) is needed by xen-guest-agent-0.4.0-0.fc37.x86_64 rpmlib(PayloadIsZstd) <= 5.4.18-1 is needed by xen-guest-agent-0.4.0-0.fc37.x86_64 -
@yann not a problem to start tools manually, like the old one. Ofcourse when you know service name=) Some lack of documentation right now.
Maybe would be nice to make autoremove old tools like for debian, if that possible for RHEL. -
@Tristis-Oris that would be an agent issue, likely due to os_info misidentifying Rocky as CentOS, you can report it in https://gitlab.com/xen-project/xen-guest-agent/-/issues, I'll double check and forward as needed.
Thanks for the feedback again!
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@Tristis-Oris currently it replaces
xe-guest-utilitiesbut apparently I had missedxe-guest-utilities-latest, adding it!See https://gitlab.com/xen-project/xen-guest-agent/-/merge_requests/74 - you should get fresh RPMs in the "artifacts" section of RPM job in a few minutes
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@Tristis-Oris said in New Rust Xen guest tools:
Incompatible with CentOS 7, well that obvious.
Right, we should find a place to mention the compatibility range, and check for a way to produce binaries for older distros even from newer ones (like what's done in Python world, but I have not spotted that yet in Rust world).
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@yann As far as I would be concerned, if you're using CentOS 7, you're on your own at that point.
The comparable would be using Windows Server 2012 R2 today, upgrade your stuff people...
