<![CDATA[Future Architecture?]]>Hello
I have a very simple question: Will the coming Version (with Alma inside) support the CPU Code for x86_64_v1/2? Because, RockyLinux 10 won't support it.
We have many HP DL380-G6/7 in our education (Technical High School in Austria) for Network Engineers and we like XCP-ng very much because of its easy useage. And it works perfect on our machines!!!
Thank you very much

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/12518/future-architectureRSS for NodeTue, 06 Oct 2026 18:20:01 GMTTue, 06 Oct 2026 16:54:58 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Future Architecture? on Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:47:53 GMT]]>Yes, your wright! I know about that. As i mentioned, our machines are really working perfect (they can easily be a productive system) I am asking because our school does not have much money (in fact nothing) and i will go on with my lessons in hypervisors with xcp-ng.
THANKS TO EVERYONE who works on this project - i like it!!
P.S. If you need user tests in grater scale, we can do it (10 machines) and we have time.

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/108906https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/108906Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:47:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Future Architecture? on Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:43:33 GMT]]>Welcome to the forum, and nice to hear the DL380 G6/G7s are still earning their keep in a classroom.

I'm not the expert here (far from that), but @teddyastie from the team answered something close to this last year: XCP-ng 9 will need an x86_64-v2 CPU, which he summed up as Intel Nehalem or newer (https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/98416).

If I've got the generations right (and that's a real if 😆), the G6 and G7 carry Xeon 5500 and 5600 chips, Nehalem and Westmere, so the CPU level shouldn't be what stops you, which fits john.c's point about Alma having a v2 build.

Like @JeffBerntsen says, boot mode is the bigger question: Teddy's post says UEFI will be required, "or at least the only officially supported option", and Jeff runs G7s himself and confirms they're BIOS-only. So the honest answer is that I don't know yet whether legacy boot will still work on 9, even unofficially. Either way, 8.3 is the LTS release and it's supported until 2028-11-30 (https://docs.xcp-ng.org/releases/release-8-3), so there's no rush for your lab.

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/108905https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/108905Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:43:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Future Architecture? on Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:40:10 GMT]]>I suspect it will also depend on BIOS vs. UEFI boot. DL380 G6/G7 systems are BIOS-only. I run a lot of DL380 G7 systems myself so I know which I'm hoping for.

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/108904https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/108904Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:40:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Future Architecture? on Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:16:11 GMT]]>It depends on whether the Alma Linux core chosen for dom0 is the one for v3 and v4 or the one for v2. As AlmaLinux also has a variant in vanilla not just for baseline v3 and v4 but also for one baseline below in other words v2.

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/108903https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/108903Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:16:11 GMT