XCP-ng 8.0.0 released!

stormi

It's here, finally.

I will not re-detail everything that this release brings, because everything is available here:

A huge thank you to all of you who have been involved in testing and more.

For you, testers, some information that is not on the blog:

If you installed XCP-ng 8.0.0 prefinal ISOs from the RC thread, then you actually already have XCP-ng 8.0.0 final! Nothing to do.
If you installed XCP-ng 8.0.0 beta or RC, just update your hosts like you would do for any regular update and you'll have the same system as if you had installed from the final ISO. Just avoid doing it from the shell console that is started from xsconsole (see why in the updates howto).

maxcuttins

Kudos to you!

jmaurin

Quick question: how to check if it is in final version?
I was running 8.0 RC, but it only shows '8.0' in XCP-NG Center. I'm upgrading using remote upgrade, but I think it will show the same thing/value in XCP Center....
any details in command line that difference RC and 8.0 final?

stormi

@jmaurin said in XCP-ng 8.0.0 released!:

Quick question: how to check if it is in final version?
I was running 8.0 RC, but it only shows '8.0' in XCP-NG Center. I'm upgrading using remote upgrade, but I think it will show the same thing/value in XCP Center....
any details in command line that difference RC and 8.0 final?

The easiest is to run yum update and see whether it offers updates or not. There's no easy version number to differenciate them.

jmaurin

Ok, kernel-alt not available in current release. Missing from repo?

Fresh install of XCP-NG 8 (no upgrade):

[10:27 ktm ~]# yum update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Excluding mirror: updates.xcp-ng.org
 * xcp-ng-base: mirrors.xcp-ng.org
Excluding mirror: updates.xcp-ng.org
 * xcp-ng-updates: mirrors.xcp-ng.org
No packages marked for update
[10:27 ktm ~]# yum install kernel-alt
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Excluding mirror: updates.xcp-ng.org
 * xcp-ng-base: mirrors.xcp-ng.org
Excluding mirror: updates.xcp-ng.org
 * xcp-ng-updates: mirrors.xcp-ng.org
No package kernel-alt available.
Error: Nothing to do
[10:27 ktm ~]#

stormi

It's still a work in progress so it's in the xcp-ng-testing repo (--enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing).

@r1 will probably update https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/wiki/Alternate-kernel when he is available.

r1

Yes - its in xcp-ng-testing repo which is not enabled by default.

Link https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/wiki/Alternate-kernel is now updated with installation instructions.

rizaemet 0

Successful upgrade 8 host in 1 pool from xcp-ng 7.6 to xcp-ng 8.0.
81 VMs. No downtime.

Thank you xcp-ng team.

olivierlambert

Yay! Thanks for the feedback @rizaemet-0

xisco

hi, successfull upgrade from xcp-ng 7.6 to 8.0 here too, 2 hosts and 1 pool.

michael

Successful upgrade from XCP-NG 7.6 to 8.0. I've let everything run for a few days and I haven't had any issues. (Single Dell R620)

FMaster007

hey everyone! Question. I am currently on XCP-ng 7.6 and want to upgrade to 8.0. I have downloaded and burned the ISO onto a USB flash drive. If I perform the upgrade, will I lose on my current VMs? Thanks!

Danp

@FMaster007 Not if you do it correctly. See here -- https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/wiki/Upgrade-Howto