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    • MajorTom
      MajorTom @stormi last edited by MajorTom

      @stormi said in Updates announcements and testing:

      XCP-ng 7.6

      [...]

      microcode_ctl

      yum update microcode_ctl --enablerepo=xcp-ng-updates_testing
      

      Microcode update for the SandyBridge family of CPUs regarding the MDS attacks.

      Post-install: reboot if you want it to be taken into account.

      xcp-ng-pv-tools

      yum update microcode_ctl --enablerepo=xcp-ng-updates_testing
      

      I guess that above command for xcp-ng-pv-tools should not be the same as the one for microcode_ctl

      XCP-ng 8.0

      [...]

      microcode_ctl

      yum update microcode_ctl --enablerepo=xcp-ng-updates_testing
      

      This command returns error:

      # yum update microcode_ctl --enablerepo=xcp-ng-updates_testing
      Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
      
      
      Error getting repository data for xcp-ng-updates_testing, repository not found
      

      I guess it meant to be:

      # yum update microcode_ctl --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing
      

      as this worked for me.

      HTH

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      • MajorTom
        MajorTom @MajorTom last edited by

        I installed all these updates for 8.0 and rebooted the host.

        The reboot was extraordinary long. The time from shutting ssh session to getting ping packets back again was about 8 minutes. I don't know what it was doing during all this time as I rebooted remotely.

        So I rebooted once more to see whether the boot time would be so long again.
        This time it was only 1 minutes 46 seconds.

        The VMs seem to run OK so far, but it's just a test host with two VMs doing almost nothing, so I don't know for sure :-).

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        • stormi
          stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team πŸš€ @MajorTom last edited by

          @MajorTom thanks, I've fixed the post

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          • C
            cnaumer @stormi last edited by

            @stormi Installed the updates in our test pool. Until now everything is working. VM migration etc. Also set viridian flags as advised ( xoa vm has this set also? is this OK?)
            Regards

            Christian

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            • olivierlambert
              olivierlambert Vates πŸͺ Co-Founder🦸 CEO πŸ§‘β€πŸ’Ό last edited by

              I think Viridian will only have an effect on Windows VMs.

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              • stormi
                stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team πŸš€ last edited by

                Thanks to those who tested. Still interested in feedback, including on XCP-ng 7.6.

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                • stormi
                  stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team πŸš€ last edited by

                  I'll need at least one tester for the latest update candidates on XCP-ng 7.6, and one for 8.0.

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                  • C
                    cnaumer last edited by

                    OK. Installed it on our last 7.6 server. Reboot was OK. VMs run fine. As this is a test host I cannot test more. It runs on AMD so the microcode_ctl should do nothing on our server.

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                    • stormi
                      stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team πŸš€ @cnaumer last edited by

                      @cnaumer Thanks, this is good enough for me at this stage of the testing, so I can push the 7.6 updates now thanks to you!

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                      • C
                        cnaumer @cnaumer last edited by

                        @cnaumer said in Updates announcements and testing:

                        @stormi Installed the updates in our test pool. Until now everything is working. VM migration etc. Also set viridian flags as advised ( xoa vm has this set also? is this OK?)
                        Regards

                        Christian

                        This was an 8.0 pool here. Just to clarify this.

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                        • MajorTom
                          MajorTom @stormi last edited by

                          @stormi said in Updates announcements and testing:

                          I'll need at least one tester for the latest update candidates on XCP-ng 7.6, and one for 8.0.

                          At 8.0:
                          I did yum update, but there are only new versions of guest-templates-json*, so can't quite see anything to check.

                          Just in case I rebooted the host. The reboot took about 1 minute 40 seconds which i s OK for this host.

                          The test VMs started OK as well.

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                          • olivierlambert
                            olivierlambert Vates πŸͺ Co-Founder🦸 CEO πŸ§‘β€πŸ’Ό last edited by

                            That's enough to check if everything is fine πŸ™‚

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                            • stormi
                              stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team πŸš€ last edited by

                              So I have pushed the updates described in https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/16360 to XCP-ng 7.6 and 8.0 repositories. Thanks for the tests.

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                              • stormi
                                stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team πŸš€ last edited by

                                Blog post about the latest updates: https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2019/09/13/software-updates-for-xcp-ng-7-6-and-8-0/

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                                • stormi
                                  stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team πŸš€ last edited by stormi

                                  New update candidates for XCP-ng 8.0: guest-templates* and xcp-ng-pv-tools

                                  XCP-ng 8.0

                                  guest-templates*

                                  The updated packages add templates for RHEL 8 and derivatives as well as a template for Debian 10.

                                  Instructions there: https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/issues/274 (RHEL 8 and derivatives) and https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/issues/276 (debian 10).

                                  xcp-ng-pv-tools

                                  The updated package adds support for installing the tools on RHEL 8 and its derivatives (CentOS, Oracle Linux, etc.).

                                  Update: a new revision of the package now also adds tentative support for:

                                  • CloudLinux
                                  • Alpine Linux
                                  • FreePBX (Sangoma Linux)

                                  Instructions there: https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/issues/293.

                                  What we need

                                  As usual, Vates tests the updates internally, but we also rely on the community to widen the test cases and hardware tested, so we need you to install the updates and give us feedback, either positive or negative, before we can consider pushing those updates to everyone!

                                  Please use the github issues to provide feedback so this thread here remains clean.

                                  agador created this issue in xcp-ng/xcp

                                  closed Templates for RHEL 8 and CentOS 8 on XCP-ng #274

                                  LoVoltage created this issue in xcp-ng/xcp

                                  closed Request VM Template Addition for Debian 10 Buster #276

                                  stormi created this issue in xcp-ng/xcp

                                  closed Update candidate: xcp-ng-pv-tools with support for new distros #293

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                                  • C
                                    cnaumer last edited by

                                    installed and tried to use a centos8 template. It does not allow to use UEFI. Is this intended?

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                                    • stormi
                                      stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team πŸš€ @cnaumer last edited by stormi

                                      @cnaumer said in Updates announcements and testing:

                                      installed and tried to use a centos8 template. It does not allow to use UEFI. Is this intended?

                                      "Please use the github issues to provide feedback so this thread here remains clean." πŸ™‚

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                                      • stormi
                                        stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team πŸš€ last edited by stormi

                                        Update: a new revision of the xcp-ng-pv-tools package now also adds tentative support for:

                                        • CloudLinux
                                        • Alpine Linux
                                        • FreePBX (Sangoma Linux)

                                        I don't use those myself so I'm counting on community feedback πŸ™‚

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                                        • stormi
                                          stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team πŸš€ last edited by

                                          November 2019 security update for XCP-ng

                                          New security update candidates are available (XCP-ng 7.6 and 8.0). As usual, I will only release them to everyone after enough testing, so if you can please install the update candidates.

                                          Instructions there: https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/issues/302

                                          Please use the github issues to provide feedback so this thread here remains clean.

                                          But also...

                                          I'm also still interested in feedback regarding the added support in the guest tools ISO for:

                                          • CloudLinux
                                          • Alpine Linux
                                          • FreePBX (Sangoma Linux)

                                          ... and the added Debian 10 template. See my post about that https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/18268 above.

                                          I'd like to release all updates at the same time if possible.

                                          stormi created this issue in xcp-ng/xcp

                                          closed November 2019 security update #302

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                                          • revtel
                                            revtel last edited by

                                            Hi Stormi - any chance you could add support for Gentoo Linux?

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