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    • stormiS Offline
      stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team @marekm
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      @marekm said in Updates announcements and testing:

      @stormi Is this related to https://bugs.xenserver.org/browse/XSO-936 (build dependency on gdk-devel) - or a different issue? (I suspect gdk-devel is some part of GNOME, not nVidia proprietary - but could be wrong.)

      Yes it is this issue, and no, it's not GNOME's gdk-devel. Here GDK stands for GPU Deployment Kit. It's unfortunate that someone at some point thought that it would be a good idea to name the dependency gdk-devel, which was already taken by the GNOME project.

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      • stormiS Offline
        stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team
        last edited by

        By the way, if someone wants to have a look at how to build gpumon from its source RPM and prove me wrong about the impossibility to do it only with FOSS tools, I'll gladly revise my judgment πŸ™‚

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        • M Offline
          marekm @stormi
          last edited by

          @stormi OK, just asked since the issue is about a year old and still unanswered by Citrix, wondering why it didn't show up in earlier xcp-ng releases. Perhaps they have only recently made some change to XAPI so it requires gpumon, and this change could be reverted (or better yet, fixed to handle the missing package gracefully, not hang the whole machine at boot time).

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          • stormiS Offline
            stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team @marekm
            last edited by

            @marekm said in Updates announcements and testing:

            @stormi OK, just asked since the issue is about a year old and still unanswered by Citrix, wondering why it didn't show up in earlier xcp-ng releases. Perhaps they have only recently made some change to XAPI so it requires gpumon, and this change could be reverted (or better yet, fixed to handle the missing package gracefully, not hang the whole machine at boot time).

            It's simpler: it's only with XCP-ng 8.1 that I have removed gpumon. That was a mistake so I had to put it back.

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            • M Offline
              marekm @stormi
              last edited by

              @stormi Thanks. Is this https://github.com/xenserver/gpumon - if yes, it doesn't look like something big, perhaps could be patched to remove dependency on proprietary nvidia stuff.

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              • stormiS Offline
                stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team
                last edited by

                Yes, it's this. I've also create an issue for the XAPI project, that got good reception from the devs. All agree that XAPI should be able to start even if gpumon is not there.

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                • stormiS Offline
                  stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team
                  last edited by stormi

                  Note that patching gpumon so that it doesn't depend on nVIDIA stuff probably just means making it a stub service that always answers the same regardless of the actual state of the GPUs.

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                  • stormiS Offline
                    stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team
                    last edited by

                    Following yesterday's Xen security updates released by Citrix, here are test packages with security patches. As usual with security matters, they need to be tested quickly so that we can release them to everyone fast.

                    On XCP-ng 8.1

                    # on an up to date host
                    yum clean all --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing
                    yum update xen-dom0-libs xen-dom0-tools xen-hypervisor xen-libs xen-tools --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing
                    

                    reboot (master first)

                    On XCP-ng 8.0

                    This batch of updates contains not only security fixes but also bug fixes that I had queued for the next patch train.

                    # on an up to date host
                    yum clean all --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing
                    yum update bugtool-conn-tests qlogic-netxtreme2 qlogic-netxtreme2-4.19.0+1-modules sm sm-rawhba xen-dom0-libs xen-dom0-tools xen-hypervisor xen-libs xen-tools xenserver-status-report --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing
                    

                    reboot (master first)

                    On XCP-ng 7.6

                    XCP-ng 7.6 is not supported anymore, so there are no updates available for it.

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                    • stormiS Offline
                      stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team
                      last edited by

                      Hi users!

                      Today's the last day to install the update candidate and give feedback. If you have any test host, please install and reboot. That's it and it's useful to us.

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                      • stormiS Offline
                        stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team
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                        Update released: April 2020 XCP-ng Security Updates

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                        • stormiS Offline
                          stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team
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                          Intel CPUs "CROSSTalk" vulnerability.

                          Following the disclosure of the CROSSTalk CPU vulnerabilities and the release of updated microcode by Intel, here are update candidates for XCP-ng 8.0 and 8.1. Prompt feedback by all available testers is wanted.

                          Details and discussion in the dedicated thread.

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                          • stormiS Offline
                            stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team
                            last edited by

                            Update published: https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2020/06/12/intel-microcode-security-update-crosstalk/

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                            • stormiS Offline
                              stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team
                              last edited by

                              I haven't had many tests from the community for the previous updates.

                              I'm still trying to convince myself that I can count on the community to test updates before they are released to everyone, in addition to our internal testing.

                              So, here are new update candidates, related to the latest Xen security advisories, for XCP-ng 8.0 and 8.1.

                              Install them with

                              yum update xen-dom0-libs xen-dom0-tools xen-hypervisor xen-libs xen-tools --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing
                              

                              and reboot.

                              Your host is just supposed to keep working normally as before.

                              Thanks in advance.

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                              • H Offline
                                HeMaN @stormi
                                last edited by

                                @stormi
                                Did the update and a reboot just minutes ago.
                                Dell R710 / dual xeon L5640 / 96GB
                                XCP-ng 8.1 with latest patches / pool with a single host

                                System is working as expected so far.
                                If I notice anything during usage I will report back here

                                [20:41 xenserver ~]# yum update
                                Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
                                Determining fastest mirrors
                                Excluding mirror: updates.xcp-ng.org
                                 * xcp-ng-base: mirrors.xcp-ng.org
                                Excluding mirror: updates.xcp-ng.org
                                 * xcp-ng-updates: mirrors.xcp-ng.org
                                dell-system-update_dependent                             | 2.3 kB     00:00
                                dell-system-update_independent                           | 2.3 kB     00:00
                                xcp-ng-base/signature                                    |  473 B     00:00
                                xcp-ng-base/signature                                    | 3.0 kB     00:00 !!!
                                xcp-ng-updates/signature                                 |  473 B     00:00
                                xcp-ng-updates/signature                                 | 3.0 kB     00:00 !!!
                                No packages marked for update
                                [20:42 xenserver ~]# yum update xen-dom0-libs xen-dom0-tools xen-hypervisor xen-libs xen-tools --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing
                                Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
                                Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
                                Excluding mirror: updates.xcp-ng.org
                                 * xcp-ng-base: mirrors.xcp-ng.org
                                Excluding mirror: updates.xcp-ng.org
                                 * xcp-ng-testing: mirrors.xcp-ng.org
                                Excluding mirror: updates.xcp-ng.org
                                 * xcp-ng-updates: mirrors.xcp-ng.org
                                xcp-ng-testing/signature                                 |  473 B     00:00
                                xcp-ng-testing/signature                                 | 3.0 kB     00:00 !!!
                                xcp-ng-testing/primary_db                                  |  31 kB   00:00
                                Resolving Dependencies
                                --> Running transaction check
                                ---> Package xen-dom0-libs.x86_64 0:4.13.0-8.5.1.xcpng8.1 will be updated
                                ---> Package xen-dom0-libs.x86_64 0:4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1 will be an update
                                ---> Package xen-dom0-tools.x86_64 0:4.13.0-8.5.1.xcpng8.1 will be updated
                                ---> Package xen-dom0-tools.x86_64 0:4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1 will be an update
                                ---> Package xen-hypervisor.x86_64 0:4.13.0-8.5.1.xcpng8.1 will be updated
                                ---> Package xen-hypervisor.x86_64 0:4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1 will be an update
                                ---> Package xen-libs.x86_64 0:4.13.0-8.5.1.xcpng8.1 will be updated
                                ---> Package xen-libs.x86_64 0:4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1 will be an update
                                ---> Package xen-tools.x86_64 0:4.13.0-8.5.1.xcpng8.1 will be updated
                                ---> Package xen-tools.x86_64 0:4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1 will be an update
                                --> Finished Dependency Resolution
                                
                                Dependencies Resolved
                                
                                ================================================================================
                                 Package           Arch      Version                    Repository         Size
                                ================================================================================
                                Updating:
                                 xen-dom0-libs     x86_64    4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1      xcp-ng-testing    618 k
                                 xen-dom0-tools    x86_64    4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1      xcp-ng-testing    1.7 M
                                 xen-hypervisor    x86_64    4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1      xcp-ng-testing    2.3 M
                                 xen-libs          x86_64    4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1      xcp-ng-testing     35 k
                                 xen-tools         x86_64    4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1      xcp-ng-testing     26 k
                                
                                Transaction Summary
                                ================================================================================
                                Upgrade  5 Packages
                                
                                Total download size: 4.7 M
                                Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
                                Downloading packages:
                                Delta RPMs disabled because /usr/bin/applydeltarpm not installed.
                                (1/5): xen-dom0-libs-4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64.rpm      | 618 kB   00:00
                                (2/5): xen-dom0-tools-4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64.rpm     | 1.7 MB   00:00
                                (3/5): xen-libs-4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64.rpm           |  35 kB   00:00
                                (4/5): xen-tools-4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64.rpm          |  26 kB   00:00
                                (5/5): xen-hypervisor-4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64.rpm     | 2.3 MB   00:01
                                --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                Total                                              3.1 MB/s | 4.7 MB  00:01
                                Running transaction check
                                Running transaction test
                                Transaction test succeeded
                                Running transaction
                                  Updating   : xen-hypervisor-4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64                 1/10
                                  Updating   : xen-libs-4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64                       2/10
                                  Updating   : xen-dom0-libs-4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64                  3/10
                                  Updating   : xen-tools-4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64                      4/10
                                  Updating   : xen-dom0-tools-4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64                 5/10
                                  Cleanup    : xen-dom0-tools-4.13.0-8.5.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64                 6/10
                                  Cleanup    : xen-tools-4.13.0-8.5.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64                      7/10
                                  Cleanup    : xen-libs-4.13.0-8.5.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64                       8/10
                                  Cleanup    : xen-dom0-libs-4.13.0-8.5.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64                  9/10
                                  Cleanup    : xen-hypervisor-4.13.0-8.5.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64                10/10
                                  Verifying  : xen-dom0-libs-4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64                  1/10
                                  Verifying  : xen-libs-4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64                       2/10
                                  Verifying  : xen-tools-4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64                      3/10
                                  Verifying  : xen-hypervisor-4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64                 4/10
                                  Verifying  : xen-dom0-tools-4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64                 5/10
                                  Verifying  : xen-dom0-libs-4.13.0-8.5.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64                  6/10
                                  Verifying  : xen-tools-4.13.0-8.5.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64                      7/10
                                  Verifying  : xen-dom0-tools-4.13.0-8.5.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64                 8/10
                                  Verifying  : xen-hypervisor-4.13.0-8.5.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64                 9/10
                                  Verifying  : xen-libs-4.13.0-8.5.1.xcpng8.1.x86_64                      10/10
                                
                                Updated:
                                  xen-dom0-libs.x86_64 0:4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1
                                  xen-dom0-tools.x86_64 0:4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1
                                  xen-hypervisor.x86_64 0:4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1
                                  xen-libs.x86_64 0:4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1
                                  xen-tools.x86_64 0:4.13.0-8.6.1.xcpng8.1
                                
                                Complete!
                                [20:42 xenserver ~]# reboot
                                
                                
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                                • gskgerG Offline
                                  gskger Top contributor
                                  last edited by

                                  Same here.
                                  Updated a Dell R720 / dual Intel Xeon CPU E5-2640 v2 / 64GB
                                  XCP-ng 8,1 fully patched
                                  Standalone host

                                  Still have to do some testing on / with VMs, but this is something for the weekend.

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                                  • stormiS Offline
                                    stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team
                                    last edited by

                                    Update published. Thanks for testing!

                                    https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2020/07/10/july-2020-xcp-ng-security-updates/

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                                    • stormiS Offline
                                      stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team
                                      last edited by

                                      Hi everyone.

                                      An update candidate is available for netdata packages in XCP-ng 8.0 and 8.1. Feedback about it is welcome.

                                      They fix two issues:

                                      • a buffer overflow in JSON parsing, that could pose a security threat
                                      • netdata logs being flooded due to a bug in the computation of the last vcpu number

                                      To install the update candidate on XCP-ng 8.0 or 8.1:

                                      yum update "netdata*" --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing
                                      

                                      This will update the netdata and netdata-ui RPMs if they are installed on the host.

                                      You can also install them if not already present with:

                                      yum install netdata-ui --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing
                                      

                                      Note that installing netdata-ui automatically opens port 19999.

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                                        antoniolfdacruz
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                                        [10:37 xcpngp02h01 ~]# yum update "netdata*" --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing
                                        Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
                                        Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
                                        Excluding mirror: updates.xcp-ng.org
                                         * xcp-ng-base: mirrors.xcp-ng.org
                                        Excluding mirror: updates.xcp-ng.org
                                         * xcp-ng-testing: mirrors.xcp-ng.org
                                        Excluding mirror: updates.xcp-ng.org
                                         * xcp-ng-updates: mirrors.xcp-ng.org
                                        xcp-ng-testing/signature                                 |  473 B     00:00     
                                        xcp-ng-testing/signature                                 | 3.0 kB     00:00 !!! 
                                        xcp-ng-testing/primary_db                                  |  22 kB   00:01     
                                        Resolving Dependencies
                                        --> Running transaction check
                                        ---> Package netdata.x86_64 0:1.19.0-3.xcpng8.1 will be updated
                                        ---> Package netdata.x86_64 0:1.19.0-4.xcpng8.1 will be an update
                                        ---> Package netdata-debuginfo.x86_64 0:1.19.0-3.xcpng8.1 will be updated
                                        ---> Package netdata-debuginfo.x86_64 0:1.19.0-4.xcpng8.1 will be an update
                                        ---> Package netdata-ui.x86_64 0:1.19.0-3.xcpng8.1 will be updated
                                        ---> Package netdata-ui.x86_64 0:1.19.0-4.xcpng8.1 will be an update
                                        --> Finished Dependency Resolution
                                        
                                        Dependencies Resolved
                                        
                                        ================================================================================
                                         Package              Arch      Version                 Repository         Size
                                        ================================================================================
                                        Updating:
                                         netdata              x86_64    1.19.0-4.xcpng8.1       xcp-ng-testing     11 M
                                         netdata-debuginfo    x86_64    1.19.0-4.xcpng8.1       xcp-ng-testing    1.6 M
                                         netdata-ui           x86_64    1.19.0-4.xcpng8.1       xcp-ng-testing    6.4 k
                                        
                                        Transaction Summary
                                        ================================================================================
                                        Upgrade  3 Packages
                                        
                                        Total download size: 13 M
                                        Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
                                        Downloading packages:
                                        Delta RPMs disabled because /usr/bin/applydeltarpm not installed.
                                        (1/3): netdata-debuginfo-1.19.0-4.xcpng8.1.x86_64.rpm      | 1.6 MB   00:02     
                                        (2/3): netdata-ui-1.19.0-4.xcpng8.1.x86_64.rpm             | 6.4 kB   00:00     
                                        (3/3): netdata-1.19.0-4.xcpng8.1.x86_64.rpm                |  11 MB   00:12     
                                        --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                        Total                                              1.1 MB/s |  13 MB  00:12     
                                        Running transaction check
                                        Running transaction test
                                        Transaction test succeeded
                                        Running transaction
                                          Updating   : netdata-1.19.0-4.xcpng8.1.x86_64                             1/6 
                                          Updating   : netdata-ui-1.19.0-4.xcpng8.1.x86_64                          2/6 
                                          Updating   : netdata-debuginfo-1.19.0-4.xcpng8.1.x86_64                   3/6 
                                          Cleanup    : netdata-ui-1.19.0-3.xcpng8.1.x86_64                          4/6 
                                          Cleanup    : netdata-debuginfo-1.19.0-3.xcpng8.1.x86_64                   5/6 
                                          Cleanup    : netdata-1.19.0-3.xcpng8.1.x86_64                             6/6 
                                          Verifying  : netdata-debuginfo-1.19.0-4.xcpng8.1.x86_64                   1/6 
                                          Verifying  : netdata-1.19.0-4.xcpng8.1.x86_64                             2/6 
                                          Verifying  : netdata-ui-1.19.0-4.xcpng8.1.x86_64                          3/6 
                                          Verifying  : netdata-ui-1.19.0-3.xcpng8.1.x86_64                          4/6
                                          Verifying  : netdata-1.19.0-3.xcpng8.1.x86_64                             5/6 
                                          Verifying  : netdata-debuginfo-1.19.0-3.xcpng8.1.x86_64                   6/6 
                                        
                                        Updated:
                                          netdata.x86_64 0:1.19.0-4.xcpng8.1                                            
                                          netdata-debuginfo.x86_64 0:1.19.0-4.xcpng8.1                                  
                                          netdata-ui.x86_64 0:1.19.0-4.xcpng8.1                                         
                                        
                                        Complete!
                                        [12:47 xcpngp02h01 ~]# 
                                        [12:50 xcpngp02h01 ~]# systemctl status netdata.service 
                                        ? netdata.service - Real time performance monitoring
                                           Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/netdata.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
                                           Active: active (running) since Thu 2020-07-16 12:50:46 -03; 10s ago
                                          Process: 9810 ExecStartPre=/usr/libexec/netdata/xcpng-iptables-restore.sh (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
                                          Process: 9807 ExecStartPre=/bin/chown -R netdata:netdata /var/run/netdata (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
                                          Process: 9804 ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir -p /var/run/netdata (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
                                          Process: 9800 ExecStartPre=/bin/chown -R netdata:netdata /var/cache/netdata (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
                                          Process: 9797 ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir -p /var/cache/netdata (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
                                         Main PID: 9816 (netdata)
                                           CGroup: /system.slice/netdata.service
                                                   ??9816 /usr/sbin/netdata -P /var/run/netdata/netdata.pid -D -W set...
                                                   ??9849 /usr/bin/python /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/python.d.plu...
                                                   ??9852 /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/go.d.plugin 1
                                                   ??9854 /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/freeipmi.plugin 1
                                                   ??9857 /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/xenstat.plugin 1
                                                   ??9867 /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/apps.plugin 1
                                        [12:50 xcpngp02h01 ~]# 
                                        
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                                          antoniolfdacruz
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                                            Biggen
                                            last edited by

                                            Doe the netdata update not actually fix the missing network interfaces or virtual drives?

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