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    Guest Tools Recognized as Wrong Version

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      plaidypus
      last edited by plaidypus

      While I don't think this is a big deal, I thought I would bring it up.

      We just installed the latest Xen Guest Tools for Linux from the Github page below. The version on Github, and when installing it via dnf on our guest, shows 8.4.0-1. When I look at the VM in the XOA web UI, it says, "Management agent 8.3.60-1 detected." I tried restarting the xe-linux-distribution service and rebooting the VM, but it shows the same version detected.

      https://github.com/xenserver/xe-guest-utilities/releases

      Is there just a discrepancy in the detection or is this working as intended? I don't think there is likely to be any impact but wanted to check before installing it on more VMs.

      Any advice, recommendations or information is appreciated. Thanks in advance!

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        olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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        Hi,

        Those tools are being deprecated in favor of https://gitlab.com/xen-project/xen-guest-agent

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          plaidypus @olivierlambert
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          @olivierlambert Thanks for the information! Will any newer version of the Xen Guest Tools installed continue to register as 8.3.60-1 moving forward?

          Is the Xen Guest Agent ready for GA or should we hold off on installing it for now?

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          • olivierlambertO Offline
            olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
            last edited by olivierlambert

            1. I have no idea for the legacy Linux tools, they are badly coded and you can get rid of them entirely
            2. We've been using them in prod since almost a year without any issue. 1.0 will come soon but it's already very stable and safe (it's written in Rust). Our goal is to get them in all Linux distro upstream ASAP.
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