XCP-ng 8.2 updates announcements and testing

[MajorTom]

@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.

[olivierlambert]

That's enough to check if everything is fine

[stormi]

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.

[stormi]

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

[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

[cnaumer]

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

[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."

[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

[stormi]

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

[revtel]

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

[stormi]

It's not on my priority list but I'd probably accept a well tested pull request to https://github.com/xcp-ng/xe-guest-utilities/

[stormi]

@stormi said in Updates announcements and testing:

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.

The security issues are serious and public, and I haven't had any feedback about the update candidates yet, so I'm doubling my call.

[stormi]

Last chance to test before I release them based only on our internal testing.

[stormi]

Updates published: https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2019/11/08/xcp-ng-security-bulletin-november-2019/

[ruskofd]

No problem here, RHEL 8 support for guest tools works as expected (tested on the last RHEL 8.1 release), good job

[gskger]

Updated a two node XCP-ng 8.0 homelab without any issues

[marcusrushy]

updates ran with no problems

[DreDay]

I did the November 2019 updates for XCP-ng 8 on a standalone host as well as a 3 node cluster. No problems so far.

[stormi]

Get ready for testing. New (previously unforeseen) security updates are coming soon for testing. You can thank hardware bugs in CPUs (and it's only starting)

[stormi]

Testing: November 2019 security update for XCP-ng, 2nd Impact

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/308

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

stormi created this issue in xcp-ng/xcp

closed Nov 2019 security updates, 2nd impact #308