Hello, this issue has been fixed in XAPI 26.1.19-1.1 available in the testing updates. For now you have to configure your VMs manually (https://docs.xcp-ng.org/troubleshooting/common-problems/#pci-passthrough-error-unsupported-msi-delivery-mode-7) but the fix will be activated by default in the future.

@poddingue said: Thanks for posting the fix. The same thing came up in an older thread, https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/9957, where disabling IPv6 also made xoa check go green. @HamiltonWDS explained a likely reason in https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/87831: Node tries the addresses with a short timeout and can end up on the IPv6 one. Your curl -6 test helps a lot here, because it shows IPv6 doesn't connect at all on that network, so it's more than a slow path. Turning it off in XOA seems reasonable if you don't use IPv6 there; if you do, I'd guess the router side is where it really needs fixing, though I could be wrong (still haven't migrated to IPv6 myself ). Curious whether it sorts out the Cloud Backup too. XOA is using our management network where ipv6 is not needed and not enabled. Looks like our cloud backup finally ran for the first time in while too.[image: cloudbackup.jpg]

@mpiton Thanks for a fantasticly quick answer, and detailed as well. I will test this immediately! Update: I can confirm that this was indeed the problem!

I didn't know, so I went and looked at the code. XO prunes that list in a cleanup step: backup runs are kept for 31 days, and other tasks are kept by count, the newest 1000 (https://github.com/vatesfr/xen-orchestra/blob/b59c8f3d20954aa1d72e92c1e8f2db635d74fcba/@xen-orchestra/mixins/Tasks.mjs#L119-L127). You can change both with tasks.gc.keep and tasks.gc.backupKeepDuration in the xo-server config. As far as I can tell the cleanup runs when xo-server starts, not on a timer, so a long-running XO can collect quite a few before the next restart. My guess for the Cloud Backup entries @acebmxer still sees after 30 days is that they're kept by count rather than by age.

I tried it on a lab host (XCP-ng 8.3, xapi 26.1.16): calling VM.pool_migrate on a halted VM gives me your error, VM_BAD_POWER_STATE with running, halted, so the two values are the state XAPI wanted and the one it found. On the XO side, a migration inside the same pool with no SR or network mapping goes straight to VM.pool_migrate without checking the power state first: https://github.com/vatesfr/xen-orchestra/blob/b59c8f3d20954aa1d72e92c1e8f2db635d74fcba/packages/xo-server/src/xapi/index.mjs#L942-L981. So a stopped VM in that batch would give this, which fits what you remember. I haven't tried the batch migrate from the UI itself though, so I don't know if the UI is supposed to filter halted VMs out before that. It's a good concrete example for the feedback post anyway, XO could just say "this VM is halted" instead of passing XAPI's raw code through.

@stormi I am glad to hear there is progress, and I never doubted that there was interest and will from the Dev team, it was just stated, by Oliver himself, that the focus was mostly on the classic hypervisor features and that resources for edge cases were scarce. The numbers might not be spot on, but it was something similar.. Anyways I know you care and that the team always take interest in home-lab scenarios. And that, is why I keep recommending XCP-ng. You are good and motivated people, you care and interact with the community and you have a product that is simple in structure and free of most of the technical bureaucracy that the other ecosystems have. And yes, this particular Intel Arc issue, is not only on XCP-ng, The intel toolbox and drivers for this platform is currently a mess for Linux. And you are right to take home-labbers under your wing and prioritize it. As I'm sure you know, although it might not be of direct importance for revenue, they do have a huge impact on popularity. I dont think Proxmox would have had the traction it has, without them Thank you for replying, and thank you to the team for their hard work!

@anthoineb, Thanks for the fix! We plan to install blktap-3.55.5-11.1.xcpng8.3 on all three hypervisors tomorrow. We will fully shut down and start the data VMs one at a time, then verify that all running tapdisk processes use the updated binary. As the stalls are intermittent, we will monitor for recurrence and report back with the results.

@MathieuRA We reverted back to 6.8.2 for now. We can wait for patch, otherwise, I have opened a tunnel #38081.

@trelane Hello, the bug affects Xen drivers of any 9.0 series (considering the upstream code, it goes back to circa September 2019). 9.2.385 contains the fix, which was merged upstream just this month. The bug also impacts network connections, however to a lesser extent due to its nature. I believe that the bug is also present in XenServer VM Tools 9.6.0 and by extension, older versions of it. We recommend that you switch to the XCP-ng tools whenever possible, also due to its other benefits (fully open source, validated for XCP-ng and optimized for Xen Orchestra).

Great, thanks for the feedback @yomeyo !

@lem2405 No problem. Let me know if you still encounter any issues.

@john.c Indeed, John, and I almost forgot that the backup network on each host was actually on a separate, isolated NIC, and not at all on the VLAN.

@poddingue Our HA-pool is a 3 host system, yes. I'll add a note about our plans to go paid in that feedback-item. Thanks for the tip. In the meantime, I'm testing and reporting as much as I can. In order to hopefully help the product be better for all. Cheers!

@ataxyanetwork hey, thanks for sharing this. I am new to the forum so maybe i am not looking in the right place. Your Blog seems to be offline, so did you link the Appliance here in the forum or is it only available on the blog thx

@poddingue Turns out it is all secondary-to-secondary out of sync. So that makes it less intense, though if primary dies I wonder how it will resolve this, or if it will become split brained. Still unsure of how it happened, but the ones I manually cleaned up have not come back. Going to continue to manually clear them up. If it happens again I will have an alert setup to notify me, and I have all the xcp-ng logs and everything to be able to see what happened. If that happens I will post here with details and logs for the resource so we can see how it occurs. [image: image.jpeg]

@ronan-a For testing purposes, I did the following: I created a VM on the local SR of a host, installed Linux on it, and configured an ISCSI target. I then added that ISCSI target as an ISCSI SR within xcp-ng pool, and created a small VM on that repository, using XO. While the machine was running, I performed a migration without losing a single ping.I assume this confirms my previous assertion regarding the use of a standard storage system.

Thanks, @Jonathon !

@poddingue Thanks for taking a look. Yes it is this part that tells me that it should start the VM automatically once the import has completed. "After the transfer, the VM on XCP-ng side is started:" Followed by, "This process is fully automated, without any human intervention after it starts on step 1." [image: image.jpeg] https://docs.xcp-ng.org/installation/migrate-to-xcp-ng/ But my findings/experience is that the VM does not start once the import/transfer has completed. So either the docs are wrong. Or the function is not behaving as intended. I'm acctually fine either way. As long as I know what to expect. However, I would like to have it auto-start the VMs after transfer completion. Which would make the procedure "Fully automated". Update: Am I assuming correctly that "the XO V2V guide says to start the VM yourself once the migration is complete " you're reffering to, is part of the "test migration"-procedure? Not the acctual production mgiration? Because: "Final migration Run the production migration When you're ready for the final migration: Shut down the source VM completely. Start the V2V migration in Xen Orchestra with the Stop source option enabled. This ensures the final sync happens while the VM is powered off, and prevents any inconsistencies." In my mind doesn't state that the VM should be started manually post-transfer. Great thanks in advance for discussing! Cheers!

I wasn't even aware about this being a Windows limitation by itself

Wonderful !