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    • A Offline
      Aimdev
      last edited by

      Progress Report UG to xcp-ng v7.5 from xcp-ng v7.41
      Method YUM

      Error
      Updating : sm-1.18.0-1.31.x86_64 69/147
      Starting sm-multipath (via systemctl): [ OK ]
      mv: cannot stat β€˜/usr/sbin/lvmetad’: No such file or directory

      Reboot PASS
      Installed v7.5 xcp-ng centre PASS
      Test Connection NAS PASS

      Import VM created on V7.71 xcp-ng PASS
      Passthrough USB Device USB3 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 1546:01a8 U-Blox AG FAIL
      Passthrough USB Device USB2 Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1546:01a8 U-Blox AG FAIL
      Passthrough USB Device USB2 Bus 001 Device 003: ID 051d:0002 American Power Conversion Uninterruptible Power Supply PASS
      UPS Test apcupsd service not starting/will not start FAIL
      Failed to start apcupsd.service: Unit apcupsd.service failed to load: No such file or directory.

      note Reboot carried out for each USB U-Blox AG test.
      note cold start carried out for USB2 U-Blox AG test.
      note USB passthru not working for U-Blox AG (not visible in device list in xcp-ng centre)
      note USB passthru working for UPS (visible in device list in xcp-ng centre)

      Aimee

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      • AddeA Offline
        Adde
        last edited by

        Updated and working so far πŸ™‚

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

          @Aimdev

          I'm not sure to get everything you wrote here.

          1. mv: cannot stat β€˜/usr/sbin/lvmetad’: No such file or directory is identified and reported to Citrix. It's not XCP-ng specific.
          2. What do you mean by "test connection"?
          3. Does USB passthrough worked before on 7.4.1?
          4. What kind of modification did you do on 7.4.1 before updating? was it "vanilla" or you installed/configured some stuff on it?
          5. apcupsd doesn't sound coming from vanilla XCP-ng
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          • A Offline
            Aimdev @olivierlambert
            last edited by

            @olivierlambert said in XCP-ng 7.5.0 Release Candidate:

            @Aimdev

            I'm not sure to get everything you wrote here.

            1. mv: cannot stat β€˜/usr/sbin/lvmetad’: No such file or directory is identified and reported to Citrix. It's not XCP-ng specific.
              Ok
            2. What do you mean by "test connection"?
              The hypervisor successfully connected to the NAS, for the purpose of importing a saved VM. The VM started OK.
            3. Does USB passthrough worked before on 7.4.1?
              Only showed the UPS usb device, never the U-Blox AG , this is the same situation with 7.5 (Thread USB Passthrough 20 Jun 2018, 14:13)
              Both versions show the device U-Blox AG using the lsusb command.
            4. What kind of modification did you do on 7.4.1 before updating? was it "vanilla" or you installed/configured some stuff on it?
              Installed apupsd (Thread Apcupsd UPS support 15 Apr 2018, 17:33)
              The upgrade appears to have removed the apcupsd daemon, /usr/sbin/apcupsd, but not the service definition
              7.5
              service apcupsd status
              Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status apcupsd.service
              ● apcupsd.service
              Loaded: not-found (Reason: No such file or directory)
              Active: inactive (dead)
              7.4
              service apcupsd status
              ● apcupsd.service - SYSV: apcupsd monitors power and takes action if necessary
              Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/apcupsd)
              Active: active (running) since Wed 2018-08-01 14:54:22 BST; 3h 49min ago
              Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
              Process: 2199 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/apcupsd start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
              CGroup: /system.slice/apcupsd.service
              └─2210 /sbin/apcupsd -f /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf
              APC : 001,045,1103
              DATE : 2018-08-01 18:44:05 +0100

            Citrix did not support apcupsd, but Citrix upgrades in the past did not remove it.

            1. apcupsd doesn't sound coming from vanilla XCP-ng
              No, but ups support is essential for safeguarding the system.

            Aimee

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

              Yeah but Citrix isn't relying on Yum to upgrade πŸ˜‰ If you want to be "defensive", then upgrade via the ISO on boot, not on a live system πŸ™‚

              Problably a dependency thing.

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              • A Offline
                Aimdev @olivierlambert
                last edited by

                @olivierlambert
                Hi

                I do not quite understand your answer, please can you clarify.
                The system was clean installed from 7.4, 7.41 to 7.5, all xcp-ng.
                The ony addition was the ups yum , as described in my thread.
                Are you suggesting that a clean install will

                1. fix the pass through for the Ublox?
                2. To get ups support I must repeat my extra ups software install,?
                  unless xcp-ng is going to provide an alternative package for UPS support?

                Thanks

                Aimee

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

                  1. Nope
                  2. Yes.
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                  • stormiS Offline
                    stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team
                    last edited by stormi

                    This thread is having several discussions in parallel. If nobody minds, I'll move them to separate threads soon.

                    Update: done.

                    • Update with HA enabled / or not upgrading master first : https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/265/issues-when-upgrading-with-ha-enabled
                    • USB passthrough: https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/266/usb-passthrough-test-reports-in-7-5rc1
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                    • stormiS Offline
                      stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team
                      last edited by stormi

                      I pushed several update candidates to the RC in the updates_testing repository:

                      • vhd-tool fixing two bugs:
                        • "VDI import seems broken for large VHD files" https://bugs.xenserver.org/browse/XSO-868
                        • "VDI export fails with VDI I/O error" https://bugs.xenserver.org/browse/XSO-873
                      • xen security update

                      To test: yum update --enablerepo='xcp-ng-updates_testing*' and reboot.

                      What we need is to make sure they cause no regressions.

                      Thanks!

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

                        @stormi said in XCP-ng 7.5.0 Release Candidate:

                        yum update --enablerepo='xcp-ng-updates_testing*'

                        Is this interfering with the ZFS packages or there is no issue to do it? (especially blktap)

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                        • stormiS Offline
                          stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team @olivierlambert
                          last edited by

                          @olivierlambert No issue to do it.

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

                            πŸ‘ Great!

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                            • christianuhlmannC Offline
                              christianuhlmann @christianuhlmann
                              last edited by christianuhlmann

                              @christianuhlmann said in XCP-ng 7.5.0 Release Candidate:

                              my first host with xcp-ng upgraded successful to 7.5 (Intel NUC) without an error.
                              thanks for the great job !

                              second server has also been updated successfully.

                              the third server I use pci passthroug for 2 DVB cards.
                              So far that was excellent under 7.4.1.

                              Since upgrading to 7.5 I get the following error if i want to start the vm with the passthroug pci devices:

                              vm.start
                              {
                                "id": "40bcca30-d07a-db7c-5744-c134a30af5d1"
                              }
                              {
                                "message": "INTERNAL_ERROR(xenopsd internal error: (Failure
                                \"Error from xenguesthelper: Populate on Demand and PCI Passthrough are mutually exclusive\"))",
                                "stack": "XapiError: INTERNAL_ERROR(xenopsd internal error: (Failure
                                \"Error from xenguesthelper: Populate on Demand and PCI Passthrough are mutually exclusive\"))
                                  at wrapError (/home/node/xen-orchestra/packages/xen-api/src/index.js:197:9)
                                  at /home/node/xen-orchestra/packages/xen-api/src/index.js:1064:18
                                  at run (/home/node/xen-orchestra/node_modules/core-js/modules/es6.promise.js:75:22)
                                  at /home/node/xen-orchestra/node_modules/core-js/modules/es6.promise.js:92:30
                                  at flush (/home/node/xen-orchestra/node_modules/core-js/modules/_microtask.js:18:9)
                                  at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:131:7)
                                  at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:180:9)",
                                "code": "INTERNAL_ERROR",
                                "params": [
                                  "xenopsd internal error: (Failure
                                \"Error from xenguesthelper: Populate on Demand and PCI Passthrough are mutually exclusive\")"
                                ],
                                "method": "VM.start"
                              }
                              

                              all seem ok

                              # lspci
                              .....
                              02:00.0 Multimedia controller: Digital Devices GmbH Octopus DVB Adapter
                              ......
                              08:00.0 Multimedia controller: Digital Devices GmbH Cine V7
                              
                              # xl pci-assignable-list
                              0000:02:00.0
                              0000:08:00.0
                              
                              # xe vm-param-get uuid=40bcca30-d07a-db7c-5744-c134a30af5d1 param-name=other-config
                              pci: 0/0000:02:00.0,0/0000:08:00.0; base_template_name: Debian Stretch 9.0; import_task: OpaqueRef:83a9253c-f3c0-448f-aba6-df5efa2c1c4a; mac_seed: 1113ba83-5709-4ca5-a292-f8b81a047db4; install-methods: cdrom,nfs,http,ftp; linux_template: true
                              

                              Does anyone have any idea what that might be?
                              does anyone have an upgrade to 7.5 with pci passthroug on the run?

                              Thanks and Greetings

                              Christian

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

                                @christianuhlmann said in XCP-ng 7.5.0 Release Candidate:

                                Populate on Demand

                                Do you know what's this? It seems incompatible to have it enable in parallel with PCI Passthrought.

                                edit: it seems your dynamix min/max and static max aren't set at the same value.

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                                • christianuhlmannC Offline
                                  christianuhlmann @olivierlambert
                                  last edited by

                                  @olivierlambert

                                  Hi
                                  After a bit of googling on populate on demand I realized.
                                  strange that it worked under 7.4.1.

                                  if I understood correctly, it is the dynamic ram assign with min / max.

                                  after I entered a fixed size for ram, the start worked fine.

                                  thank you for the great work πŸ™‚

                                  Christian

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

                                    I think ballooning + PCI passthrough can cause some crashes, so that's why there is a check to avoid using both at the same time.

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                                    • BungoB Offline
                                      Bungo
                                      last edited by Bungo

                                      Updated via YUM, all seemed to go well, except the xcp-ng tools ISO only seems to have the Linux directory and the readme.txt file on it, no windows tools.

                                      Guests on 3 hosts same.

                                      file appears to be "guest-tools-7.29.0-2.iso" in /opt/xensource/packages/iso

                                      cheers.

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                                      • stormiS Offline
                                        stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team
                                        last edited by

                                        The windows tools are not free software, we can't distribute them. There's a way to install them though: https://xcp-ng.org/2018/04/23/the-future-of-vm-tools/ (see "a better model")

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                                        • BungoB Offline
                                          Bungo
                                          last edited by

                                          The readme doesn't say that. Might need to adjust it.

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                                          • stormiS Offline
                                            stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team
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                                            Indeed. I'll fix it.

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