<![CDATA[Alcatel OXE on XCP-ng – anyone done this before?]]>Hi all,

VMware refugee here. We’re currently evaluating XCP-ng for our environment and so far everything looks very promising – except for one case.

I’m trying to run an Alcatel OXE (OmniPCX Enterprise) on XCP-ng using XO. We received an OVA from ALE (professional services), which is intended for VMware. Officially OXE is supported on VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, Nutanix and AWS.

The system itself is based on Rocky Linux, but heavily customized.

I was able to get the image running on Proxmox.

On XCP-ng:

  • Importing the OVA via XO works
  • The VM starts
  • But it always ends in a dracut-initqueue timeout

Since there are multiple deployment methods for OXE, I was wondering if someone here has already gone through this and could share some experience or hints.

I’m aware that this is not an officially supported platform, but we’re currently exploring alternatives and I really like what I see with XCP-ng so far.

So the main question:
Has anyone successfully run OXE on XCP-ng?

Any input would be appreciated.

(i just realized by reading the text, a lot of X here...😵 😂 )
Thanks!

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/12098/alcatel-oxe-on-xcp-ng-anyone-done-this-beforeRSS for NodeSat, 10 Oct 2026 09:02:52 GMTFri, 24 Apr 2026 07:20:51 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Alcatel OXE on XCP-ng – anyone done this before? on Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:21:38 GMT]]>Ah very good, so it was even easier than this. You had the Xen blk driver but instead of using an UUID, the appliance was having a hardcoded sda.

Keep us posted 🙂

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/104738https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/104738Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:21:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Alcatel OXE on XCP-ng – anyone done this before? on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:41:55 GMT]]>Thank you @olivierlambert !!!
I used your Tip, Booted a CD and got it running on XCP-ng 👍

Note: chroot + dracut is not an option here, as dracut is not present in the OXE image.

Main issue was the disk device naming (sda → xvda).

Fix was:

  • Boot via Rocky rescue
  • Mount root partition manually
  • Update root=/dev/sdaX → root=/dev/xvdaX in /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
  • Replace all /dev/sdaX with /dev/xvdaX in /etc/fstab

After that the system boots fine.

Installation from guest tools via local guest tool iso went thru without any issues.

Network config is managed by OXE itself, so changes must be done via OXE CLI (not persistent via Linux/nmcli), but this will be done by the admin of OXE and that's not me.

So far it run's. We will do further testing and update this post if issues occur, in case someone else is searching for this.

Fingers crossed 🤞 there will be none.

Again many thanks for pointing me in the right direction and the very quick response.

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/104727https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/104727Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:41:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Alcatel OXE on XCP-ng – anyone done this before? on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:24:28 GMT]]>Hi!

Very likely missing Xen drivers in the image. See https://docs.xcp-ng.org/installation/migrate-to-xcp-ng/#-from-kvm-libvirt that could be helpful.

Keep us posted and welcome!

edit: it's one way to do it, but booting on a live CD (eg Ubuntu) and mount the VM disk to do the dracut command with chroot first will also work if you don't have a buffer machine to do the dracut then export. If you need more details, happy to guide you.

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