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    • gskgerG Offline
      gskger Top contributor
      last edited by gskger

      Updated a D54250WYK / i5-4250U / 16GB
      XCP-ng 8.1 fully patched

      Seems to work without unexpected issues, VMs are running fine.
      My USB NIC setup / configuration stopped working, but that was somewhat expected.
      I will fix this and report back, if I have an idea why it broke.
      Works again after another shutdown / start sequence 😊

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      • H Offline
        HeMaN
        last edited by

        Updated xcp-ng 8.1 fully patched (Dell R710, dual L5640, 92GB).
        no regression to report (but I am not using Xendesktop, SDN, and my dhcp already contains hostname)

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        • olivierlambertO Offline
          olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
          last edited by olivierlambert

          IMPORTANT Security updates!

          Calling all stations

          Please test it with yum update qemu --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing.

          Might be a bad flaw, so earlier people get feedback, faster we can release it 🙂

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          • DanpD Offline
            Danp Pro Support Team @olivierlambert
            last edited by

            @olivierlambert said in Updates announcements and testing:

            qemu

            Does this require a reboot or toolstack restart?

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            • olivierlambertO Offline
              olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
              last edited by

              Good question. If I'm reading this correctly:

              Once the hotfix has been applied, the affected guest HVM VMs will need to be restarted or migrated to an updated host to make the remediation effective.

              In short, fresh qemu "fixed" process will be respawn at VM creation/reboot, so no need to reboot the host.

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              • gskgerG Offline
                gskger Top contributor
                last edited by gskger

                Updated a D54250WYK / i5-4250U / 16GB
                XCP-ng 8.1 fully patched including the update candidates from 11 days ago

                Update ran succesfully (no errors).
                Rebooted the host just to be sure.
                VMs came up with no problem and seem to work as expected (but I realy just fired them up and poked around a bit, so no real testing)

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                • olivierlambertO Offline
                  olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
                  last edited by

                  Thanks a lot!

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                  • DanpD Offline
                    Danp Pro Support Team
                    last edited by

                    Updated Dell R620 / XCP-ng 8.1. Rebooting all VMs now, but they appear to be coming up just fine.

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                    • olivierlambertO Offline
                      olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
                      last edited by

                      It's live 🙂 Thanks for the feedback!

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

                        New security update candidate for the Xen package in XCP-ng!

                        Prompt feedback needed

                        So, a new patch of security patches were released for the Xen hypervisor that is at the core of XCP-ng. Updates candidates are available for XCP-ng 8.1 and in the making for XCP-ng 8.0.

                        What's being fixed

                        Mostly flaws allowing privileged guest processes may crash the host under certain conditions.

                        XCP-ng 8.1

                        • Update with yum update xen-dom0-libs xen-dom0-tools xen-hypervisor xen-libs xen-tools --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing
                        • Reboot.
                        • Check that your host(s) still work (Spoiler: they will).
                        • Report here
                        • Receive our gratitude

                        XCP-ng 8.0

                        Coming soon

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                        • gskgerG Offline
                          gskger Top contributor @stormi
                          last edited by gskger

                          @stormi Updated a D54250WYK / i5-4250U / 16GB / XCP-ng 8.1 fully patched
                          Host is indeed working and VMs started without any issues.
                          Will try on my new R720 later, but I am confident that it will work as well.
                          Nice work as always 👍

                          Edit: Updated a Dell R720 / dual Intel Xeon CPU E5-2640 v2 / 128 GB / XCP-ng 8.1 fully patched as well. All good.

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                          • B Offline
                            Biggen
                            last edited by

                            The bug/security patches upstream never seem to end. Seems like since April all you guys have had time for is this...

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                            • stormiS Offline
                              stormi Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team @stormi
                              last edited by

                              The update for XCP-ng 8.1 has now been pushed to the official updates repositories.

                              The update for XCP-ng 8.0 is now available for testing:

                              • Update with yum update xen-dom0-libs xen-dom0-tools xen-hypervisor xen-libs xen-tools --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing
                              • Reboot.
                              • Check that your host(s) still work (Spoiler: they will).
                              • Report here
                              • Receive our gratitude
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                              • stormiS Offline
                                stormi Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team
                                last edited by

                                New call for testing the XCP-ng 8.0 update candidate. I'd like to publish it today.

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                                • J Offline
                                  JeffBerntsen Top contributor @stormi
                                  last edited by

                                  @stormi I tried insalling the 8.0 update with the command you have listed but nothing installs on the server

                                   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
No packages marked for update
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                                  • stormiS Offline
                                    stormi Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team
                                    last edited by

                                    I just pushed the update to the official updates repository. Maybe you installed it already, if you ran yum update.

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

                                      Published: https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2020/09/25/september-2020-xcp-ng-security-updates/

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                                      • J Offline
                                        JeffBerntsen Top contributor @stormi
                                        last edited by

                                        @stormi Yup, I did just before trying to install the test update so I must have gotten it after you published. Everything seems to be working fine here afterward.

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

                                          New security update
                                          We'll push security updates for XCP-ng 8.1 before the end of the week, and for XCP-ng 8.0 as soon as possible.

                                          On 8.1, please test with:

                                          yum clean all --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing
yum update kernel xapi-core xapi-tests xapi-xe xcp-networkd xen-dom0-libs xen-dom0-tools xen-hypervisor xen-libs xen-tools --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing
reboot

                                          As usual, the objective of the test is to confirm that everything still works as well as before the update.

                                          I'll post a separate message when an update candidate is available for XCP-ng 8.0.

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

                                            I have published the security updates for XCP-ng 8.1, so you can already update your hosts.

                                            The blog post will be published a bit later, at the same time as the XCP-ng 8.0 update.

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