Olivier, I can say it's worse without the VGA being selected to 16Mb. That option is pretty much a must for any desktop virtualization. The novelty for me is people get far above 1080...

@Andrew I bought a RTL8126 5G card (because of the price) for my home lab that doesn't appear to be working with 8.3 like you said. It is trying to use the r8125 driver. [08:53 tw-xcp-ng-02 ~]# ethtool -i eth2 driver: r8125 version: 9.012.04-NAPI-PTP-RSS firmware-version: expansion-rom-version: bus-info: 0000:02:00.0 supports-statistics: yes supports-test: no supports-eeprom-access: no supports-register-dump: yes supports-priv-flags: no I removed the r8125 driver and manually installed the r8126 driver which I downloaded from here. I can see the interface using the driver, and it shows the 5G capabilities of the driver, however I cannot get this to negotiate the speed (see below). I have tried this with a 2.5G switch and a 10G switch. The 10G switch can negotiate down to 5G so that shouldn't be an issue. On both switches it shows its connection as just fast ethernet. If I manually set the port on the switch to 5G I will not even get a link light. Would you happen to have any suggestions or ideas to get the card working? [09:49 tw-xcp-ng-02 ~]# ethtool -i eth2 driver: r8126 version: 10.015.00-NAPI firmware-version: expansion-rom-version: bus-info: 0000:02:00.0 supports-statistics: yes supports-test: no supports-eeprom-access: no supports-register-dump: yes supports-priv-flags: no [09:46 tw-xcp-ng-02 ~]# ethtool eth2 Settings for eth2: Supported ports: [ TP ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full 2500baseX/Full 2500baseT/Full 5000baseT/Full Supported pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Supported FEC modes: Not reported Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full 2500baseX/Full 2500baseT/Full 5000baseT/Full Advertised pause frame use: No Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised FEC modes: Not reported Speed: Unknown! Duplex: Unknown! (255) Port: Twisted Pair PHYAD: 0 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on MDI-X: on Supports Wake-on: pumbg Wake-on: d Current message level: 0x00000033 (51) drv probe ifdown ifup Link detected: no [09:52 tw-xcp-ng-02 ~]# lspci | grep Ethernet 00:1f.6 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (17) I219-LM (rev 11) 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8126 (rev 01) 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller I225-V (rev 03)

@ph7 Thanks for the tip! Appreciate it.

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@lsouai-vates Today I noticed that there is the same in xo5 (commit 25192) Jobs with disabled jobs but scheduled in a sequence job are shown with Not backed up VMs [image: 1747997034588-9d25866e-a8b8-4bd6-85ac-bcb5973fd6fc-image.png] By the BCK_Running tag, it is backed up [image: 1747997147334-f5471bb0-7600-4d6e-ad81-da9c13dfa6bd-image.png]

@amosgiture xcp-ng 8.2 and 8.2.1 is working without any issue. Have you checked the logs? it is recognized as xenserver 8.2.1 [image: 1747995496573-91f8952f-3e5e-4ed2-9990-2dc7ffc8a8a9-image.png]

The original problem could be a known issue when creating bond including the management interface that we have to investigate. Although the emergency network reset should have fixed that, so maybe it is a mix of the bond creation issue and MTU issue. In the reinstalled pool, did you create the bonds already? If so I would think changing the MTU should be fine, especially as it worked on other PIF, but with MTU issue it is often quite sneaky, so I would not make any promises either.

@Tristis-Oris I still don't have the solution I am working on it .

@Danp Oh thanks, that makes sense, though I am not sure how I got it to work in the POC... Cold migration will be fine for the time being anyway

@olivierlambert we are thinking about implementing a relationnal DB in the future. Maybe it could offer to stock snapshots as "archived"... I don't know for now. I understand that it could be risky to delete old snapshots, and maybe the responsability of setting the snaspshots retention can be an ACL subject... There are plenty of avenues of work on this topic, and more generally on the retention of information about objects, tasks, and other actions. It's a real in-depth topic.

@kosa7 from what the XO devs told me : for now you have to handle it completly manually, since we have separated collection a not a relationnal db... You could maybe use a smart mode backup with a VM tag. We plan to implement a relational database in the future, which would at least offer the possibility to handle this. "Reasonnably : warm migration should be more a one off , so the user must handle the consequence. If he uses this regularly, he should add a tag to the VM " DBPRODBACKUPPLZ" and then configure his job to use this tag" FYI @olivierlambert

Adding @stormi

Ahh how the homelab changes over time... Hosts are still the same, but storage, network setup, and location have all changed. Will have to post a new updated thread on my current server setup.

@olivierlambert Indeed, xe vm-export uuid=<uuid of the vm> filename=/<path>/backup.xva exports the current disk state. Thank you.

@crismarcul Yes, I would also like this option. It is essential.

I was just thinking about the potential reasons why it doesn't work, and it wasn't a correct guess

@Danp Sorry, due to the host being added and me continuing on with my other tasks, it is not. I could have made that more clear.

@Tomcatter It's from Citrix: https://www.xenserver.com/downloads