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    • gskger
      gskger Top contributor πŸ’ͺ @stormi last edited by gskger

      @stormi Successfully updated my two host playlab (8.2.0 full patched, but with the new guest tools ISO). Rebooted both hosts and ran my usual test program (create, live migrate (without (only Debian) and with guest-tools installed (Debian 10 and Windows 10) avoiding the VM_LACKS_FEATURE error on Windows 10 - more sleep this time πŸ˜‡ ), copy and delete as well as create / revert to snapshot (with/without ram) and (live/halted=shutdown) storage migration remote to local SR and back). Also restored a Debian 10 VM from a pre-update backup with no problem. Looks good πŸ‘. Will see how backup runs tonight, but I am confident that this will work as well.

      Edit #1: typos πŸ™„

      Edit #2: Thanks to Xen Orchestra, out-of-band management even for Optiplex 9010s, a notebook and a very nice evening on the balcony, I extended my tests to Ubuntu 20 LTS. And you might guess it - works as well 😁

      Edit #3: Deleted a subsequent post on an asyncMap is not defined error because it is not related to the security update.

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      • gskger
        gskger Top contributor πŸ’ͺ @stormi last edited by gskger

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          tzerod last edited by

          Tested new security patches on 8.2.

          Network performance seems just fine. Have 4 Windows server 2019 and 2 Fedora Server VMs recording video feed. Haven't observed any difference in performance.

          Supermicro SYS-1029U-TR4 with 768gig ram.
          Network usage: about 400mbps constant.
          ZFS

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            jmccoy555 last edited by jmccoy555

            Only updated one host in my pool so far, but it has my TrueNAS VM and network performance looks comparable ⭐

            edit:

            Actually quite an improvement in comparison to my results above

            root@FILE001:~ # iperf -c 10.10.1.126
            ------------------------------------------------------------
            Client connecting to 10.10.1.126, TCP port 5001
            TCP window size: 80.8 KByte (default)
            ------------------------------------------------------------
            [  3] local 10.10.1.125 port 35576 connected with 10.10.1.126 port 5001
            [ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
            [  3]  0.0-10.1 sec  6.30 GBytes  5.36 Gbits/sec
            root@FILE001:~ # iperf -s
            ------------------------------------------------------------
            Server listening on TCP port 5001
            TCP window size: 64.0 KByte (default)
            ------------------------------------------------------------
            [  4] local 10.10.1.125 port 5001 connected with 10.10.1.126 port 54773
            [ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
            [  4]  0.0-10.0 sec  3.57 GBytes  3.06 Gbits/sec
            
            

            Also done a VM reboot now and no passthrough issues πŸ˜„

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

              Just in time πŸ™‚

              Updates now published: https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2021/04/01/april-2021-1st-security-bugfixe-update/

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                jmccoy555 @stormi last edited by

                @stormi Security updates on April 1st 🀣

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                • stormi
                  stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team πŸš€ @jmccoy555 last edited by

                  @jmccoy555 Yeah. Install them today and they'll turn your hosts into VMware.

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                    jmccoy555 @stormi last edited by

                    @stormi Isn't that a virus, not a bug fix????

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

                      πŸ˜†

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

                        New xsconsole fix to test for 8.2

                        New update candidate are available for testing and due to be released as official updates.

                        Original topic:

                        • https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/3886/xcp-ng-8-2-dns-settings-gone-after-reboot
                        • https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/3277/dns-config-on-8-1-hosts-disappearing
                        yum clean metadata --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing
                        yum update xsconsole --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing
                        systemctl restart xsconsole.service 
                        

                        What to test

                        Changing the DNS settings from the XSConsole and the change is retain after a reboot.

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

                          @benjireis said in Updates announcements and testing:

                          What to test

                          Changing the DNS settings from the XSConsole and the change is retain after a reboot.

                          And, of course, as usual, that you don't notice any obvious regression in XSConsole.

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                          • gskger
                            gskger Top contributor πŸ’ͺ @stormi last edited by gskger

                            @stormi Did not even know the problem existed πŸ˜‡ . Anyway, added a new (second) DNS server (9.9.9.9) to the DNS server list via xsconsole and rebooted the host (XCP-ng 8.2.0 fully patched).

                            Before update: DNS 9.9.9.9 did not persist, only the previous settings are shown
                            After update: DNS 9.9.9.9 did persist the reboot and is listed together with the previous settings

                            Deleting DNS 9.9.9.9 worked as well, so the xsconsole update worked for me.

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

                              IIRC, it's on old problem reported a long time ago to Citrix. But they never fixed it.

                              edit: and thanks again @gskger for your tests, it matters a lot!

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                              • gskger
                                gskger Top contributor πŸ’ͺ @olivierlambert last edited by

                                @olivierlambert as always, it is a pleasure to help and also easy to do and to contribute. Oh and @BenjiReis - sorry for not replying to your initial post.

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                                • BenjiReis
                                  BenjiReis Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team πŸš€ @gskger last edited by

                                  @gskger Thanks for the report! πŸ˜„

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

                                    Experimental feature: select a network to evacuate an host
                                    A new feature is available in our testing repo: select a network for host evacuation, this would allow to evacuate an host on any (faster) given network instead of the management one.

                                    To access the feature, on all your hosts (always starting with master when in a pool):
                                    yum update --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing xapi-core-1.249.5-1.1.0.evacnet.1.xcpng8.2.x86_64 xapi-xe-1.249.5-1.1.0.evacnet.1.xcpng8.2.x86_64 xapi-tests-1.249.5-1.1.0.evacnet.1.xcpng8.2.x86_64
                                    And restart your hosts.

                                    WHAT TO TEST
                                    Host evacuation not on the management network (probably a 10G storage network to go faster!)
                                    You can run xe host-evacuate host=<host_uuid> network-uuid=<network_uuid>
                                    Or a XAPI client can call host.evacuate with a network ref parameter.
                                    Host evacuation without the optionnal new parameter should behave as before the update.

                                    Please report here if anything goes wrong (or right hopefully πŸ™‚ ) and if you spot a regression as well.

                                    Thanks!

                                    Edit: there are no plans for now to add this feature in 8.2 LTS, the package will probably stay in the testing repo for 8.2 and will be available in 8.3. It means that the package would be erased at next xapi update.

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

                                      Up! Poor @BenjiReis needs some feedback πŸ˜„

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                                      • gskger
                                        gskger Top contributor πŸ’ͺ @BenjiReis last edited by

                                        @benjireis Had some time for testing and installed the update on my two host playlab (DELL Optiplex 9010, XCP-ng 8.2.0 fully pathed). This are identical hosts with an onboard NIC (Intel 82579LM, eth0) and a dual port NIC (Intel 82571EB/82571GB, eth1 and eth2). Both are connected to a Synology as shared storage.

                                        • Starting with the master, both hosts updated and rebooted without an issue.
                                        • Live migration of Debian, Ubuntu, Centos and Windows 10 VMs works (with and without guest tools installed).
                                        • Host evacuation over eth0 (Management network) without the new network-uuid parameter works as before.
                                        • Host evacuation over eth1 (Storage network) with the new parametrer works at full gigabit speed.

                                        Still working on 10G in my playlab, so i only have 1G available, but host evacuation over a non- management network works with the new network-uuid parameter.

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                                        • BenjiReis
                                          BenjiReis Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team πŸš€ @gskger last edited by

                                          @gskger Thanks for the report! This is greatly appreciated! πŸ˜„

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

                                            New update candidates for 8.2, including guest SecureBoot support

                                            Several update candidates are ready for testing.

                                            Description of the changes

                                            • The updated uefistored brings guest SecureBoot support. The number one priority it to check that UEFI VMs still work well in various situations (including backups, restore from older backups, fresh install after the update was installed...). For SecureBoot support itself, usage detailed at https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp-ng-org/pull/85/files currently until we merge the instructions to the official docs. We'll create a dedicated thread to discuss this feature.
                                            • Updated XAPI brings the latest fixes from Citrix hotfix XS82E020.
                                            • Updated storage manager (sm) brings the latest fixes from Citrix hotfix XS82E023 as well as a fix for a minor regression this hotfix brought (detected by @ronan-a and reported upstream with a patch proposal), an experimental MooseFS driver contributed by the MooseFS developers (not enabled by default), and a fix for NFS SR creation with some QNAP devices (contributed upstream, to the sm project, but still waiting for review after ~4 months).
                                            • Updated xsconsole fixes DNS settings management: when changed from the text UI, DNS settings were not saved to the XAPI and were thus lost after a reboot (not contributed upstream], because there's no public git repository for XSConsole unfortunately).
                                            • Updated blktap fixes a rare crash in specific situations.
                                            • Updated guest tools ISO brings support for new OSes and versions, such as CentoS 8.3+ & Stream, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, fixed installation on FreePBX... Those have already been tested in this thread but more tests are always welcome.

                                            How to update (XCP-ng 8.2 only)

                                            yum update blktap forkexecd message-switch rrdd-plugins sm sm-rawhba uefistored xapi-core xapi-tests xapi-xe xcp-ng-pv-tools xcp-ng-release xcp-ng-release-config xcp-ng-release-presets xenopsd xenopsd-cli xenopsd-xc xsconsole --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing
                                            

                                            What to test

                                            The main goal of the testing phase is to avoid regressions, so test whatever you want. The closer to your actual use of XCP-ng, the better.

                                            If interested, you can also test that what we claim we have fixed is actually fixed, and have a go at guest Secure Boot.

                                            beshleman created this issue in xcp-ng/xcp-ng-org

                                            closed Guest secure boot #85

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