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    • ajpri1998A Offline
      ajpri1998
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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-0.3.0 Installed 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.

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        yann Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team @ajpri1998
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        Hello @ajpri1998! Can you confirm that running this in the guest does print Pop!_OS?

        xenstore read data/os_distro
        
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          yann Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team
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          We just released version 0.4.0. Biggest highlight is that it is not necessary any more to have libxenstore separately 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 @yann
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            @yann
            Can confirm. Also was able to upgrade to 0.4.0.
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            $ sudo xenstore read data/os_distro
            Pop!_OS
            

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              CJ @ajpri1998
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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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              • ajpri1998A Offline
                ajpri1998 @CJ
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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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                  olivierlambert Vates πŸͺ Co-Founder CEO
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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 πŸ™‚

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                  • Tristis OrisT Offline
                    Tristis Oris Top contributor @yann
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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!
                    
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                      DustinB @Tristis Oris
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                      @Tristis-Oris

                      systemctl enable xe-linux-distribution
                      systemctl start xe-linux-distribution
                      

                      I would think

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                        Tristis Oris Top contributor @DustinB
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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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                          DustinB @Tristis Oris
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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

                          systemctl start xe<TAB-Key for auto complete>
                          
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                          • Tristis OrisT Offline
                            Tristis Oris Top contributor @DustinB
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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
                            
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                              yann Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team @Tristis Oris
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                              @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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                                Tristis Oris Top contributor
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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?
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                                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
                                
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                                • Tristis OrisT Offline
                                  Tristis Oris Top contributor @yann
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                                  @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.

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                                  • yannY Offline
                                    yann Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team @Tristis Oris
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                                    @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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                                    • yannY Offline
                                      yann Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team @Tristis Oris
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                                      @Tristis-Oris currently it replaces xe-guest-utilities but apparently I had missed xe-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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                                        yann Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team @Tristis Oris
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                                        @Tristis-Oris: added to https://gitlab.com/xen-project/xen-guest-agent/-/releases/0.4.0#installation

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                                          yann Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team @Tristis Oris
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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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                                            DustinB @yann
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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...

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