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      peder @olivierlambert last edited by

      @olivierlambert Sure.
      I've put the param-list logs as well as the VMs (sans the Disk) on https://student.oedu.se/~peder/xcp-ng/

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      • olivierlambert
        olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder🦸 CEO 🧑‍💼 last edited by

        So I imported your VM metadata in my lab pool, attached to a VM disk with Debian (so we don't really care about the OS) and it worked 😆

        I also attached a disk of a previously working CentOS 7 VM, same thing: migration worked 🐹

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          peder last edited by

          Weird.

          Maybe it's due to the hardware I'm using. I only have 8 GB RAM in the servers but the migration fails even if I'm not running any other VM.
          And since it works if static max=dynamic max it shouldn't be a RAM case either.

          Unless the migration for some reason tries to allocate 2-3 times the amount of RAM if static and dynamic max differ.

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          • s_mcleod
            s_mcleod @MajorTom last edited by

            @MajorTom Sorry about that I've been (and still am AFK):

            Corrected link: https://github.com/sammcj/benchmark_results/blob/master/xcpng/8/hyperthreading_impact/test_2_sysbench_prime.md

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              AllooTikeeChaat last edited by AllooTikeeChaat

              Folks... was at Citrix event today and the morning was a talk by LoginVSI looking at the impact of the latest security patches for Intel CPU's and the performance impact server on EUC work loads and server scalebility on the Hypervisors. According to the presenter all the Hypervisors (Hyper-V, VMware ESX and XenServer) that they were testing were seeing approx 20-25% decrease in performance when using Intel based systems. What I found interesting was VMware has developed a new scheduler, SCAv2 to help reduce the impact although no numbers where mentioned. There was no mention of anything of th sort for XenServer or HyperV.

              https://blogs.vmware.com/performance/2019/05/new-scheduler-option-for-vsphere-6-7-u2.html

              According to that blog post .. the impact using the SCAv2 was reduced to 11%.

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              • olivierlambert
                olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder🦸 CEO 🧑‍💼 last edited by

                This will come in Xen. In fact, work already started. It's called "core scheduling", and this is the preliminary work before sync scheduling, which is a perfect solution (better perfs AND better security) against Intel CPU flaws.

                Source: https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2019-05/msg00370.html

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                  AllooTikeeChaat @olivierlambert last edited by

                  @olivierlambert

                  Good to know that they're already working on it for Xen. Surprised that none of the Citrix bod's at the event mentioned it. Looks like the best way to do get around the massive performance hit without switching to AMD !

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                  • olivierlambert
                    olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder🦸 CEO 🧑‍💼 @AllooTikeeChaat last edited by

                    @AllooTikeeChaat I'm always stunned by the fact Citrix communication on Xen is equal to /dev/null, despite all the great efforts made by the Xen devs (half of them are from Citrix!)

                    So as I said, it's not there yet, but it's going into that direction pretty well, I would expect this stuff to be backported in the future I suppose, because it's really powerful!

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                      dariosplit last edited by

                      When will the final version of XCP-ng 8.0.0. be available?

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                      • olivierlambert
                        olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder🦸 CEO 🧑‍💼 last edited by

                        This will depend a bit on community feedback: more feedback means faster release 🙂

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                        • s_mcleod
                          s_mcleod @olivierlambert last edited by

                          @olivierlambert I’m sorry I’m not more available to bring more testing to the table this week, I am AFK.

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                          • olivierlambert
                            olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder🦸 CEO 🧑‍💼 last edited by

                            No worries mate! To give a more precise answer, we might target a RC for the end of the month, maybe sooner, IDK yet.

                            Then if there is no big issue spotted with the RC, release will come near after 🙂

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                              peder last edited by

                              Connecting an iSCSI SR in xsconsole fails if there's a discovery password.
                              It works if I disable the authentication.

                              It works in XenOrchestra if I attach it as a new SR (With auth) AND have the same discovery username and password in the ACL of the iqn.
                              That still doesn't work in xsconsole.

                              My iscsi server uses targetcli-fb/LIO.

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                              • olivierlambert
                                olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder🦸 CEO 🧑‍💼 last edited by

                                Is it something broken before? Because I don't think we ever touched xsconsole outside colors

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                                • s_mcleod
                                  s_mcleod last edited by

                                  I’ve fairly certain I’ve had this problem since xenserver 6.x

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                                  • olivierlambert
                                    olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder🦸 CEO 🧑‍💼 last edited by

                                    Okay so this issue could be opened somewhere, but IMHO it shouldn't be a blocker for the release 🙂

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                                      peder last edited by

                                      I used tgt and no authentication before so I can't say.
                                      I decided to try targetcli and authentication when I installed 8 beta.

                                      No, it's probably not a blocker.

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                                      • apayne
                                        apayne @olivierlambert last edited by

                                        @olivierlambert Go figure - just two days after that posting, my creaky old HP DL365 Gen1 up and died. CPU 1 memory bank shows a solid set of lights for RAM sockets, i.e. the memory controller can't access RAM. Bummer.

                                        My wife took pity on me - or got me a father's day gift, depending on your point of view - and sprung for a Dell R815, which is supported. Of course, I gave the 8.0 beta a spin.

                                        Installation was slightly faster, but there have been a few minor quirks along the way:

                                        • The USB key I stuck into the unit wasn't an option for the OS install, but did show up as an option when creating storage for VMs. No big deal, but still kinda strange.
                                        • Peeking at a different console via Alt-F2 and Alt-F3 showed some patches? And the kernel/dracut root/boot installation section took a loooong time to complete; everything else flew by. If it's downloading those patches that would explain the delay - the unit has a slow wifi bridge connection.

                                        Other than those, it seems fine. I'm still poking around it, getting a few for what's changed.

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                                        • stormi
                                          stormi Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team 🚀 @apayne last edited by

                                          @apayne I'm not aware of the installer being able to download patches from the internet. Can you create a tarball of /var/log/installer and make it available to me so that I check that?

                                          Not being able to install the system on usb key is a good thing: it is not recommended because it would wear out too quickly due to frequent writes.

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                                          • borzel
                                            borzel XCP-ng Center Team 🏚️ @apayne last edited by

                                            @apayne For USB-Key see our FAQ: https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/wiki/FAQ#can-i-use-xcp-ng-on-a-usb-stick-like-esxi

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