XCP-ng 8.3 updates announcements and testing
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@stormi Updated both of my test hosts.
Machine 1:
Intel Xeon E-2336
SuperMicro board.Machine 2:
Minisforum MS-01
i9-13900H
32 GB Ram
Using Intel X710 onboard NICEverything rebooted and came up fine. The MS-01 i test with uses i40e and intel-igc not the e1000 driver. The other machine with the SuperMicro board uses igb so im afraid i'm not much help in testing that driver.
yum commands did seem to work from the small handful i ran.
And yes, stats do indeed work again
I never noticed the issue with Server 2025 and hanging on reboot since the updates from last week. Were you able to see anything in the dump files i sent?
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Off topic, how does XCP handle the E and P cores in that 13900 machine? That was one of the considerations that made me skip these Intel processors in favor of AMD.
I'll get mine updated as soon as possible, on going work to clean out my tech room so it can get cut in half for class space. Goodbye future expansion if we need it!
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@stormi Minor issue: e1000e does not show driver version with ethtool:
# ethtool -i eth0 driver: e1000e version: firmware-version: 0.1-4 expansion-rom-version: bus-info: 0000:00:1f.6 supports-statistics: yes supports-test: yes supports-eeprom-access: yes supports-register-dump: yes supports-priv-flags: yes -
@Greg_E It seems to handle it fine, i have 2 of these systems running without issue with 8.3!
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@flakpyro No, I'm waiting for more feedback from the devs. All I have from them for now is it looks like either a firmware or a passthrough issue. I don't think we have changed anything to fix it.
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@Andrew Thanks for noticing that. CC @ThierryEscande
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@stormi @ThierryEscande I issued a PR for
intel-e1000eto add the version for ethtool. -
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@Greg_E It works but it's not designed to work. I'm personally use a system like this at home (Protectli) and no issues so far after a rather intensive use.
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@Andrew What does a regular linux distro output as a version for the driver? I've been told there's no version in the source code, so does it output anything?
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@stormi It shows the kernel version, exactly what
uname -rwould. -
@stormi From Debian 11:
# ethtool -i enp0s25 driver: e1000e version: 5.10.0-34-amd64 firmware-version: 0.2-4 expansion-rom-version: bus-info: 0000:00:19.0 supports-statistics: yes supports-test: yes supports-eeprom-access: yes supports-register-dump: yes supports-priv-flags: yes -
Updated my Lab pool consisting of 2 Nodes this morning
Rebooted master first, then slave. No issues VMs migrated between reboots.
Couldn't see any issue til now. -
Updates done on 1x Intel and 1x AMD host, rebooted, no visible issues.
