Tips on installing XO

jasonnix

Hello @john-c,
Thank you so much for your advices.
1- I had used the root account for this, so there is no permission issue. Now, I realized that root account is not suitable for this. Which directory is suitable for cloning?

2- Is there a problem if I download the file from Github as a zip file and install it?

olivierlambert

You can but it's less convenient.

john.c

@olivierlambert said in Tips on installing XO:

You can but it's less convenient.

As well as more tricky when updated as you will need to create a zip and then re-download it. If however you can clone it especially by the git command then you can use it to update it as needed and/or use other methods to speed it up.

Additionally you can have a script to update the instance and handle any instances of ownership changes.

DustinB

@john-c said in Tips on installing XO:

@olivierlambert said in Tips on installing XO:

You can but it's less convenient.

As well as more tricky when updated as you will need to create a zip and then re-download it. If however you can clone it especially by the git command then you can use it to update it as needed and/or use other methods to speed it up.

Additionally you can have a script to update the instance and handle any instances of ownership changes.

That seems like an insane way to install and update this XO.

jasonnix

Hello,
You said that I should not do the installation with the root account, which directory is suitable for cloning?

Cheers.

jasonnix

Hello,
No idea?

Cheers.

lawrencesystems

@jasonnix

I have. a tutorial here on how to build from sources using https://github.com/ronivay/XenOrchestraInstallerUpdater which can be done using a sudo user.

https://youtu.be/fuS7tSOxcSo

jasonnix

Hi @lawrencesystems,
Some people said that I should not use the root account. Which directory is suitable for cloning?

lawrencesystems

@jasonnix

use an account that is in the sudo list.

jasonnix

Thanks @lawrencesystems.
If I want to clone it manually, then which directory is OK? For example, "/home", "/tmp", etc.

lawrencesystems

@jasonnix

If you are going to do it manually then choose whatever you want, but /tmp might not make much sense to put something important.

jasonnix

Hi @lawrencesystems,
Thanks again.
I want to clone XO under the /usr/local/src directory, but this directory requires root access. Is there a problem if I do this with the sudo command?

ElemondCraw

@jasonnix There is a paragraph about sudo in the install : https://xen-orchestra.com/docs/installation.html#sudo

DustinB

@jasonnix said in Tips on installing XO:

Hi @lawrencesystems,
Thanks again.
I want to clone XO under the /usr/local/src directory, but this directory requires root access. Is there a problem if I do this with the sudo command?

At this point I'm not sure if its intentional idiocy or not. Xen Orchestra does not get installed within XCP-ng's Dom0, it can be installed as a VM that is running as a guest on XCP-ng or on a separate environment entirely.

Read the documentation, install Ubuntu or Debian and then you install XO as an application on that system.

jasonnix

Hello,
I tried to install XO, but I got the following error:

$ sudo yarn
yarn install v1.22.21
[1/5] Validating package.json...
[2/5] Resolving packages...
[3/5] Fetching packages...
error https://registry.yarnpkg.com/react-sparklines/-/react-sparklines-1.6.0.tgz: Extracting tar content of undefined failed, the file appears to be corrupt: "ENOSPC: no space left on device, write"
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/install for documentation about this command.

I have enough disk space:

$ sudo df -i
Filesystem     Inodes  IUsed  IFree IUse% Mounted on
udev           492266    395 491871    1% /dev
tmpfs          497999    589 497410    1% /run
/dev/xvda1     238560 139439  99121   59% /
tmpfs          497999      1 497998    1% /dev/shm
tmpfs          497999      3 497996    1% /run/lock
/dev/xvda6     354816  20966 333850    6% /home
tmpfs           99599     14  99585    1% /run/user/0
tmpfs           99599     19  99580    1% /run/user/1000
$
$ sudo lsblk
NAME    MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sr0      11:0    1   16M  0 rom  
xvda    202:0    0   10G  0 disk 
├─xvda1 202:1    0  3.6G  0 part /
├─xvda2 202:2    0    1K  0 part 
├─xvda5 202:5    0  976M  0 part [SWAP]
└─xvda6 202:6    0  5.4G  0 part /home

Any idea?

AtaxyaNetwork

@jasonnix Hi !

Can you do a df -h instead of -i ?

jasonnix

Hi @AtaxyaNetwork,
I did:

$ sudo df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev            1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev
tmpfs           390M  564K  389M   1% /run
/dev/xvda1      3.6G  3.5G     0 100% /
tmpfs           1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
/dev/xvda6      5.3G  247M  4.8G   5% /home
tmpfs           390M     0  390M   0% /run/user/0
tmpfs           390M     0  390M   0% /run/user/1000

Disk is full!

AtaxyaNetwork

@jasonnix Indeed

You can deploy a XOA and resize your VM disk with the GUI (the VM need to be shutdown), and then, resize your FS in the VM.

jasonnix

@AtaxyaNetwork, I prefer CLI for now.

AtaxyaNetwork

@jasonnix Why not using XOA ? It's really simpler than the CLI...

Anyway, you can shut down the VM and do:

xe vdi-resize uuid=<VDI of your VM> disk-size=XXGiB