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

                                            @Ruskofff LVM thin won't happen I'm afraid. They had to many issues doing it when they tried (data corruption). The path they are using not for thin pro on block based (eg iSCSI) is GFS2. But this require a cluster working, and this part isn't Open Source…

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