XCP-ng 8.3 updates announcements and testing
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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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My old i7 with e1000e is working fine (except the version not shoving) -
@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.
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Hi @Andrew, @ph7, @blankOutreach and others
A new release of the Intel e1000e driver is available for testing. It's a minor release that fixes the driver version reported by ethtool, no other change. Please test this update and verify that network connectivity and features that you depend on work as expected.
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@ThierryEscande
Ran some tests for 20 min
Seems to work fine[18:39 x1 ~]# ethtool -i eth0 driver: e1000e version: 5.10.179 firmware-version: 0.13-3 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 -
@ThierryEscande I ran the update and it's passing good data (on an older card that worked before).
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I finally got my lab updated and the two vms started, so far so good. Stats data is present, the first time I've seen any of my hosts pull 100% CPU. Hosts are little HP T740 thin clients with AMD V1756B processors and 64GB of ram, in a 3 host pool.
Sorry I can't bring more detail, not really doing work on my XCP lab right now, and lots of shake up around tech. space at work.
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So, we owe a very big thank you to everyone here for your tests and feedback. The numerous updates that were in the
xcp-ng-testingrepository are now officially published to everyone:https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2025/05/26/may-2025-maintenance-update-for-xcp-ng-8-3/
But stay with us, as very soon we'll have a few more updates to test, as well as refreshed installation ISOs!
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@stormi Installed on our 2 production pools, DR and remote sites, 46 hosts total ranging from Dell, Lenovo, HP, and Supermicro servers, no issues to report!
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Just a heads-up to let you know that we'll soon (tonight? Tomorrow?) upload pre-releases of the refreshed installation ISOs for XCP-ng 8.3.
