XCP-ng 8.3 updates announcements and testing

ph7

Now I am not sure if I did run the New update candidates for you to test!
Is there a way to force the updates?

gduperrey

@ph7 As David mentioned, the security updates were released yesterday. They are no longer in the candidates repository, but in the updates repository.

Note that the updates in the testing repository have not yet been released. They include a more recent version of the XAPI. This could explain why you can no longer migrate this VHD between your test and production environments.

Are you trying to perform a live migration or with the VM powered off?

ph7

@gduperrey said in XCP-ng 8.3 updates announcements and testing:

Are you trying to perform a live migration or with the VM powered off?

No live migration, different pools, VDI migration only, powered off.
Warm migration is working.

It's OK, I can wait for the release

Andrew

@ph7 @gduperrey With current updates: Cold (VM off) migration works for me. Live migration, when forced due to incompatible CPU fails (badly, host toolstack restart required).

With the VM off, normal VM/VDI migration worked for me in the following process (VM power on after each migration, and then off again, as a test):

XCP 8.2 Intel (Pool 1) -> XCP 8.2 Intel (Pool 2) -> XCP 8.3 Intel (Pool 3) -> XCP 8.3 AMD (Pool 4) -> XCP 8.3 Intel (Pool 3)

Note: Each host/pool uses local storage. Software versions on hosts match for the same version of XCP. @ph7, looks like you need to yum clean all and yum update again.

ph7

@Andrew

looks like you need to yum clean all and yum update again.

Tried it but it didn't work
And I ran the rm -rf /var/cache/yum

[13:09 x2 ~]# yum clean all
Inlästa insticksmoduler: fastestmirror
Rensar förråd: xcp-ng-base xcp-ng-updates
Cleaning up everything
Maybe you want: rm -rf /var/cache/yum, to also free up space taken by orphaned data from disabled or removed repos
Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors

[13:14 x2 ~]# rm -rf /var/cache/yum

[13:14 x2 ~]# yum update
Inlästa insticksmoduler: fastestmirror
Determining fastest mirrors
Excluding mirror: updates.xcp-ng.org
 * xcp-ng-base: mirrors.xcp-ng.org
Excluding mirror: updates.xcp-ng.org
 * xcp-ng-updates: mirrors.xcp-ng.org
xcp-ng-base/signature                     |  473 B  00:00:00     
xcp-ng-base/signature                     | 3.0 kB  00:00:00 !!! 
xcp-ng-updates/signature                  |  473 B  00:00:00     
xcp-ng-updates/signature                  | 3.0 kB  00:00:00 !!! 
(1/2): xcp-ng-updates/primary_db          | 238 kB  00:00:00     
(2/2): xcp-ng-base/primary_db             | 3.9 MB  00:00:00     
No packages marked for update

And rebooted

ph7

Cold migration doesn't work, but Warm migration does.
No panic, I can wait for the release

stormi

Just to be sure, is there an issue for us to investigate here, or expected failure due to version mismatch?

ph7

@stormi
If You are asking me, I can run the New update candidates for you to test! on my "production" home lab server if the testing repo still exist

stormi

Yes update candidates that were not urgent security fixes are still in the xcp-ng-testing repository (and more is coming soon, today or on
monday).

ph7

@stormi
I ran the xcp-ng-testing and now the migration seems to work