XCP-ng 8.3 betas and RCs feedback 🚀

stormi

Ideally you'd reinstall to be sure you have a clean system without leftovers from previous test packages. We try to provide a clean update path, but we can't test all combinations of situations.

When the final release is there, you can use the installation ISO to upgrade your hosts, which will retain local SRs and metadata. Only customizations outside what the API (XAPI) offers may have to be done again.

ThierryC01

@stormi Where can we find a release notes for the beta2 ?

stormi

@ThierryC01 Mostly here: https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/68789

and in a future blog post.

kait

using the 8.3 beta in my homelab
so far everything seems stable, i have not had an opportunity to try out vtpm yet but everything else workd great so far

POleszkiewicz

Any possibility to compile current ceph client packages for the 8.3 ? The ones that are in the 8.2.1 repos are pretty old

stormi

@POleszkiewicz Hi. Could you open a new discussion about this? I'm going to post to the beta thread for announcements right now.

stormi

I pushed a batch of updates to XCP-ng 8.3's base repository.

Main highlights:

Ported from XenServer 8:

Updated microcode for AMD and Intel
kernel: bug fixes
xapi: updated to version 23.31.0. Changelogs available at https://github.com/xapi-project/xen-api/releases
blktap: bug fixes
openvswitch: updated to version 2.17.7
qemu: bugfixes for PCI passthrough using multifunction devices
sm: updated to 3.0.12 + various fixes
various python2 scripts and libs ported to python3

Other XCP-ng changes:

edk2: rebuilt to embed a build of ipxe-efi which fixes PXE boot in UEFI
sm: Linstor-related fixes, IPv6-related fixes
updategrub.py script, used for adding or removing a boot entry for the alternate kernel, ported to python3.

We are also about to release the Beta2 ISOs. They won't contain the above, because we froze their contents a few weeks ago, but users who would install using these will just need to update like any other XCP-ng 8.3 tester.

POleszkiewicz

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Prevok

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Prevok

I have an atypical host, a Rock Pi X. I can install 8.2.1 fine, but 8.3 beta1 and beta1-test4 do not install. All fresh installs, I haven't tried upgrading 8.2 to 8.3.

They generate different errors (I assume test4 is just more specific).

Using xcp-ng-8.3.0-beta1.iso I get:
Error occured
An unrecoverable error has occured. The error was:
Error installing packages

Using xcp-ng-8.3.0-beta2-test4.iso:
Error occured
An unrecoverable error has occured. The error was:
Signature key import failed

Looking forward trying the official beta2 release to see if it fares better.

Anything I can test to try and pinpoint the source of the issue?

Thanks.

stormi

@Prevok Check the date is correct on your host. A bad date (years off) messes with signature verification.

Otherwise, you can get logs with ALT + RIGHT.

ThierryC01

@stormi said in XCP-ng 8.3 beta :

Everyone: we are about to release XCP-ng 8.3 Beta 2!

It was delayed by one month due to the UEFI issues discussed above, now fixed.

The last thing we need is your feedback on the updated installation ISO: https://updates.xcp-ng.org/tmp/xcp-ng-8.3.0-beta2-test3.iso

I hope I have more success than with the test2 ISO for which I don't remember getting any feedback

Hi,

I have updated my xcp-ng 8.3 beta 1 with this xcp-ng-8.3.0-beta2-test3.iso and while it boots, I have lost all my VMs and no SR are recognized, I am left with a just a server that sits on its own and I cannot connect an oldest XOA to it. If you need more info (logs, anything) tell me now as I really need my VMs back, I think I should be able to revert to the previous version if the backup worked. I only have one homelab server so this is the situation where you kind of update your live prod...

Before upgrading, I applied all the 8.3 patches that were pushed recently.

Prevok

@stormi It was the time. It was not just a bit off, it was 12 years off

Should have thought of that, we had similar issues at work with Rocky 8 servers. I naively thought the NTP servers would have prevented such issues, but I am not sure the NIC works at install time. I have never been able to get the netinstall to work off that box. Meh... this worked, thanks you very much!

stormi

@ThierryC01 Oh, I didn't think someone would upgrade from Beta1 using the ISO. Actually the test4 ISO forbids it to avoid upgrade issues.

Can you share the /var/log/installer/install-log file? (on a separate thread, where you can ping me)

ThierryC01

@stormi Thanks for your help, my VMs are back online but there is no more stats in the tab "stats" for any VM and the host, the log page gives this error multiple times:

vm.stats
{
  "id": "3c807c46-bfdc-f33a-5954-4de92bcf3f08",
  "granularity": "seconds"
}
{
  "message": "Unable to get the true granularity: 5",
  "name": "FaultyGranularity",
  "stack": "FaultyGranularity: Unable to get the true granularity: 5
    at XapiStats._getAndUpdateStats (file:///opt/xen-orchestra/packages/xo-server/src/xapi-stats.mjs:305:13)
    at Api.#callApiMethod (file:///opt/xen-orchestra/packages/xo-server/src/xo-mixins/api.mjs:445:20)"
}

stormi

This is an error another user reported through a support ticket. Do others confirm?

olivierlambert

I confirm the issue here

Tristis Oris

same issue.

rmaclachlan

Same here (ticket is in).

Anyone having issues with NFS SR performance too? Since the update my VMs are transferring about 140MB/s vs before the update we were seeing speeds around 440MB/s.

I'm using "dd if=/dev/zero of=tmp bs=1G oflag=dsync count=1" to test, if I SSH onto the host I can get full speed to the NFS mount but from within a VM it is much slower, this means backups are also crawling since XOA can't read the VHD very quickly.

iSCSI performance seems unaffected.

flakpyro

Same issue on latest 8.3 release, no stats.