XCP-ng 8.2 updates announcements and testing

cnaumer

@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.

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.

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.

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)