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    • stormi
      stormi Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team 🚀 last edited by

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

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      • stormi
        stormi Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team 🚀 last edited by

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

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        • ruskofd
          ruskofd last edited by ruskofd

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

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          • gskger
            gskger Top contributor 💪 last edited by

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

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            • marcusrushy
              marcusrushy last edited by

              updates ran with no problems

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              • D
                DreDay last edited by

                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. 👍

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                • stormi
                  stormi Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team 🚀 last edited by

                  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) 🙂

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                  • stormi
                    stormi Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team 🚀 last edited by

                    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

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                    • stormi
                      stormi Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team 🚀 last edited by

                      End of WE soon, still interested in feedback for release tomorrow.

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                      • nmym
                        nmym @stormi last edited by

                        @stormi intel only it seems?

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                        • stormi
                          stormi Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team 🚀 last edited by

                          There's a misunderdstanding when I ask for tests. What hardware you have doesn't really matter. Even if you don't have Intel CPUs, your hosts will receive the updates. So they are impacted. If there are regressions in the updates, you'll be impacted.

                          That's why what's the most important with all the updates I ask feedback for is not what they fix, it's what they don't break. A large number of "I installed them, things seem to still function normally" is what we really need.

                          Testing the actual changes the updates bring is a plus, but not a requirement to be able to contribute.

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                          • stormi
                            stormi Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team 🚀 last edited by

                            Security Updates released. Intel hardware again. You'll need to choose between safety and performance regarding one of the flaws if you are running untrusted guests. https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2019/11/18/security-updates-for-intel-hardware/

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                            • stormi
                              stormi Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team 🚀 last edited by stormi

                              I just pushed a bugfix update for XCP-ng 8.0: sm-2.2.3-1.0.3.xcpng8.0.

                              If fixes a never-ending coalesce issues described at https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/issues/298 and https://bugs.xenserver.org/browse/XSO-966

                              If you had alread applied all the security updates, there's no hurry. You can wait for the next batch of security updates if you don't strictly require the fix. If you apply it alone, no reboot is required. xe-toolstack-restart is enough.

                              stormi created this issue in xcp-ng/xcp

                              closed XCP-ng 8.0 / CH 8.0 coalesce issues #298

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                              • _danielgurgel
                                _danielgurgel @stormi last edited by

                                @stormi Thank you!
                                I'll be applying and validating the patch.

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                                • _danielgurgel
                                  _danielgurgel last edited by

                                  @stormi the update actually solves the problem of zombies process, but the coalesce, all disks after backup/snapshot (removal) still continue with a 1 disk stuck in the leaf chain.

                                  I am also testing the update made available in https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX265619 in an XS 7.1 pool.

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                                  • stormi
                                    stormi Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team 🚀 last edited by

                                    I'm interested in the results because it's the same patch!

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                                    • _danielgurgel
                                      _danielgurgel @stormi last edited by

                                      @stormi The perception I have is as follows in XCP8:

                                      • After backup, all the disks were left with 1 disk frozen in the leaf tree.
                                      • Even pausing the VM and rescanning disk, the coalesce process does not start.

                                      For CH7.1 with the XS71ECU2020 update, the coalesce process completed 100% by pausing the VMs. We will now re-back it up and see if the coalesce runs again 100%.

                                      I used standard times in LIVE_LEAF_COALESCE_TIMEOUT=10.
                                      The new test will be with LIVE_LEAF_COALESCE_TIMEOUT=300.

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                                      • _danielgurgel
                                        _danielgurgel @stormi last edited by _danielgurgel

                                        @stormi The strange thing is, I had to turn off the VMs, rescan disk and then turn on again.

                                        The coalesce process began with the linked VMs (in production) and successfully completed. The following values have been changed at /opt/xensource/sm/cleanup.py :

                                        LIVE_LEAF_COALESCE_MAX_SIZE = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 # bytes
                                        LIVE_LEAF_COALESCE_TIMEOUT = 300 # seconds
                                        

                                        Well, apparently everything ok... we will see in our next backup if it will be necessary to turn off the VMs for the coalesce to start and complete correctly.

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                                        • _danielgurgel
                                          _danielgurgel @stormi last edited by

                                          @stormi After the informed change, the backup occurred with 100% success, on no disk in the coalesce chain.

                                          We're migrating another cluster to XCP-ng 8!
                                          Thanks for the support, quick return and attention.

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                                          • stormi
                                            stormi Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team 🚀 last edited by

                                            A new update just pushed for XCP-ng 8.0: xcp-ng-xapi-plugins. It adds a plugin that the latest version of Xen Orchestra (just released) needs in order to offer a new feature: integration of netdata for all hosts into a single interface. See the blog post.

                                            If xcp-ng-xapi-plugins is the only update available for your hosts, then no need to reboot after installing. A toolstack restart is enough.

                                            If you don't need the new feature, you can skip this update until the next batch.

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