EOL: XCP-ng Center has come to an end (New Maintainer!)

gskger

@Seneken Have you considered using Xen Orchestra (XO) instead of XCP-ng Center? XO is the recommended solution to manage Xenserver or XCP-ng hosts and pools. The Xen Orchestra from Source comes with all the bells and whistles for a homelab, while the Xen Orchestra Appliance (XOA) is intended for enterprise scenarios with support. But you most likely already know that and are just interested in a windows client

Seneken

@petr-bena Hi, I found your build from this link. I wil try it now and report to you later.

Thank much

@gskger
Yup, I know about Xen Orchestra (XO) and XOA. Maybe I will use it temporarily while waiting for the next version of XCP-ng Center to fully support 8.3. Of course, I still need XCP-ng Center for my colleagues who are not very familiar with the system. They have been given basic training on how to use XCP-ng Center to monitor and support the VMs when needed.
Sincerely thank you for your sharing and suggestions.

cowboy

@errellion Have you ever considered or looked into using a USB over Ethernet utility like VirtualHere or one of the other alternatives as a work around?

In a nutshell, you could deploy something like a RPI2 or RPI3 and run VirtualHere on it & plug your dongles into that and have your VM's connect to it with a USB over Ethernet client. Then you wouldn't have issues with snapshots or migrations between hosts.

I use this for Wave, Software Defined Radio & ADSB dongles and USB printer - just forward the raw USB connections over Ethernet to my VM's and it's worked great for me for years.

Just spitballing the idea if it helps you.

Seneken

@petr-bena said in EOL: XCP-ng Center has come to an end (New Maintainer!):

@Seneken that build I shared here works with latest XCP-ng, current maintainer on github just didn't make a release for latest codebase, but master branch in github works with latest version just fine

Hi Petr-bena, your build work for me. Thank you so much

O_V_K

Hello everyone!

Is there a version of XCP-ng center that can work with XenServer 8 and with XCP-ng 8.2 simultaneously?

Thank you!

petr.bena

@O_V_K Does that version I posted not work?

petr.bena

@olivierlambert BTW due to inactivity of "new maintainer" I think I could probably volunteer to become another co-maintainer, but can't promise to be overly active either.

O_V_K

@petr-bena said in EOL: XCP-ng Center has come to an end (New Maintainer!):

@O_V_K Does that version I posted not work?

No Tested with latest XenServer 8

Thank you!

O_V_K

Latest XenCenter 2024.3.0 does not work with XCP-ng 8.2

AbyssMoon

@petr-bena Greetings. Your build has stopped working with the latest xcp-ng 8.3 patches. Is there any solution?

laurentm

@AbyssMoon
My release vNext 24158 still works with XCP-NG 8.3 Final but I cannot use it anymore for Live Migration and Cold Migration due to a cert error between servers.
It was working with XCP-NG 8.3 RC2.

petr.bena

@AbyssMoon it works just fine to me

can you provide some details?

AbyssMoon

@petr-bena Have you installed the latest patch via yum update?

[epyc-genoa1 ~]# rpm -qa | grep xapi
xapi-xe-24.19.2-1.4.xcpng8.3.x86_64
xapi-rrd2csv-24.19.2-1.4.xcpng8.3.x86_64
python2-xapi-storage-24.19.2-1.4.xcpng8.3.x86_64
xapi-storage-script-24.19.2-1.4.xcpng8.3.x86_64
xapi-nbd-24.19.2-1.4.xcpng8.3.x86_64
xapi-core-24.19.2-1.4.xcpng8.3.x86_64
xapi-tests-24.19.2-1.4.xcpng8.3.x86_64
xcp-ng-xapi-plugins-1.10.1-1.xcpng8.3.noarch

XO is working properly.

petr.bena

@AbyssMoon yes I did, but you clearly use different version of XCP-ng admin, not my build. Compare build numbers.

AbyssMoon

@petr-bena thank you, I see that the build is different, I downloaded my version from your resource:
https://cloud.bena.rocks/s/kEWmsmg8ABtQJZe
please tell me, where can I get a newer build?

petr.bena

@AbyssMoon

I just downloaded it myself from same link and tried, look on the screenshot, versions are matching, it works to me. I think you must have some different problem, maybe firewall?

AbyssMoon

@petr-bena it's definitely not a firewall, XO is working. Maybe the problem is in windows 2008 server r2, I run xencenter on it. Perhaps it does not support any new encryption protocols, this is an assumption.

petr.bena

@AbyssMoon I run it on Windows 10, but I think it's weird it worker before and now it doesn't. Do you have any other newer Windows available to try it on?

AbyssMoon

@petr-bena I tried to run the 24158 build on windows 10, everything really works, thank you. The problem is with the outdated windows 2008 server R2 operating system.
P.S. I've never had it work on this machine with xp-ng 8.3, I thought the reason was the latest patch.

Seneken

@petr-bena Dear Petr-bena
Does you have public this Builds (follow your screenshot) ? My xcp-ng download from your first build is 24158.