EOL: XCP-ng Center has come to an end (New Maintainer!)
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@michael-manley
YES PLEASE make 2024.11 realise of XCP-ng Center for 8.3 version of XCP-ng.
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Hello Everyone,
I put a release out of vNext Build 24308 as a normal release. Although its a vNext build, its pretty stable and works with 8.3.
I plan to do some changes before 24.11 comes out in GA but I just wanted to get something out now so you all have a version that is 8.3 compatible.
Please test and report any bugs you may notice. I will mention also 24.11 will change how settings are done which will allow for a portable version of XCP-ng Center. More to come later.
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@michael-manley
Thank you for new realize.
I install it on my PC and connect to my pools.
First impressions are good, works fine, after 1/2 usage I don't get any error of found bug.
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@michael-manley Thank so yo much Mr. Manley
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Thank you @michael-manley
I have waiting for update for XCP-ng Center for so many years. Now adding new disks to VM when you have a lot of LUN connected to pool works very fast ans smooth.
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I have found a bug which occurs in latest version and also in nightly versions of XCP-ng Center. We you have server list with few connection it takes about 20-25 after inputing master password when they will appear.
Missing connections list after inputing master password:
Connection list appears after 20-25 seconds of waiting:
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Thanks a lot for the good work. Came right in time. Never finding anything fast in XOA.
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Hello Everyone!
Thought I'd get peoples views on this. Since XCP-ng Center is Windows only and basically stuck on .NET Framework 4.8, I am considering switching the UI over to Avalonia, rewriting the whole UI for that change, and upgrade to .NET 8.0. This will also allow Linux users to use XCP-ng Center as well.
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@michael-manley Speaking as a recent Linux desktop convert, I approve
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I still keep a Windows 10 VM just to be able to run XCP-NG Center.
Despite XOA is a great powerfull tool to perform backups and warm migrations, XCP-NG Center
is much moreuser-friendly when you want to check more than one server at once.Having it on a Linux Desktop could be the most welcome improvement.
Thanks.
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@michael-manley sounds like a plan.
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@michael-manley Sounds fantastic! Should allow for GUI additions flexibility as well.
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its a big task, but would be cool
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@michael-manley You got my vote of approval. I'm also willing to test your releases (if you need that kinda help).
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@michael-manley Great!!
In fact xenserver and xcp-ng without the desk application seems to me a bit like RouterOS without Winbox; we are so fond of them that we would be sorry not to see them anymore... they are twins
in their own way (see the beta of winbox for linux).Thanks Michael for the effort!
73,
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Thank you for taking it on. I'm coming from Xenserver using Xencenter for last 10 years and migrating stuff to XCP-ng. Any chance you could update it to allow to add XenServer servers. When I try to add it says This version is incompatible with XCP-ng Center. Thanks again.
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@michael-manley Switching to Avalonia and .Net 8.0.0 LTS with some additional work meeting any additional requirements, will enable it to be useable on MacOS. You could even get it listed in Apple's Mac OS App store software so people can download it straight to their macs and then benefit from the security and auto-update technologies.
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pctechsolution This would be very useful for us too.
In our testing environment, we have about a dozen XCP-ng 8.2.1 hosts, but also 6 XenServer 7.6 ones. The 20.04.01 version of XCP-ng Center happily talks to 8.2.1 and earlier, but the later versions of XCP-ng Center will only talk to 8.2.1, not the earlier XenServers.Conversely, the 20.04.01 version of XenCenter won't talk to the new test 8.3 host, but the later one will.
So at the moment, we're having to jump between versions, which will become a pain as we migrate the hosts over to XCP-ng 8.3
The later one also seems to have lost the right-click->Paste on the console, which I didn't realise how often I used until it was gone
Have also tried XO-lite on the 8.3, as it's being pushed as a possible alternative to XenCenter when XO isn't available.
The XO-lite is getting better, but still a long way to go before it gives the functionality of XenCenter, many of the options don't do anything yet, and even the bits that do work aren't great - like not being able to specify the target of an export (browser ran out of disk space, unsurprisingly).Hope Michael is able to get XenCenter to support the older XenServers as well as the XCP-ng, even if some functionality is missing - it will still be an ideal middle ground between XO-lite and the full blown XO (which we don't want to reduce resources from other guests to implement)
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Thanks for the feedback propsoft
XO Lite is indeed still a work in progress and there's a lot to come!propsoft said in EOL: XCP-ng Center has come to an end (New Maintainer!):
not being able to specify the target of an export (browser ran out of disk space, unsurprisingly)
I'm not sure to understand what you mean by "browser ran out of disk space". Do you mean your computer's disk?
Also, what do you mean by target? You'd like to be able to choose a destination folder on your computer?
Thanks!
