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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 ‘/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 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
        last edited by

        Yeah but Citrix isn't relying on Yum to upgrade 😉 If you want to be "defensive", then upgrade via the ISO on boot, not on a live system 🙂

        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 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
            last edited by

            1. Nope
            2. Yes.
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            • stormiS Offline
              stormi Vates 🪐 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 🪐 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 🪐 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 🪐 XCP-ng Team @olivierlambert
                    last edited by

                    @olivierlambert No issue to do it.

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

                      👍 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 🪐 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 🙂

                            Christian

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                            • olivierlambertO Offline
                              olivierlambert Vates 🪐 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 🪐 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 🪐 XCP-ng Team
                                      last edited by

                                      Indeed. I'll fix it.

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                                      • stormiS Offline
                                        stormi Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team @Bungo
                                        last edited by

                                        @bungo I uploaded a fixed package, can you test it?

                                        # only needed if you test so quickly that yum's cache couldn't expire
                                        yum clean metadata --enablerepo='*'
                                        
                                        # install the update candidate
                                        yum install xcp-ng-pv-tools --enablerepo='xcp-ng-updates_testing*'
                                        

                                        Here's what you should see in the Windows section of README.txt

                                        We are not allowed to redistribute the windows tools built and signed by
                                        Citrix, so they are not included here.
                                        
                                        If you are using Xen Orchestra, you can switch the "Windows Update tools"
                                        advanced parameter on from the "Advanced" tab of the VM view. This will
                                        allow you to install the tools directly from Windows Updates.
                                        
                                        Any help in building the tools from the sources to add them back in this
                                        ISO image is welcome. See https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/issues/23
                                        
                                        olivierlambert created this issue in xcp-ng/xcp

                                        closed Windows PV tools #23

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                                        • BungoB Offline
                                          Bungo
                                          last edited by

                                          Ran, tested, all as expected. Thanks.

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                                          • ruskofdR Offline
                                            ruskofd
                                            last edited by ruskofd

                                            I installed this RC1 version via a fresh install using the ISO image (from Proxmox). I used EXT3 thin provisioning as usual (one day Citrix will give us the opportunity to use LVM Thin 😔).

                                            No problem at all ! Great ! XenOrchestra 5.22 works great, same for XCP.

                                            However, I have not yet had the opportunity to test the USB Passthrough. And finally, my network card does not support SR-IOV, so no opinion on it.

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