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    • stormi
      stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team πŸš€ @jtbw911 last edited by

      @jtbw911 I don't want the answers for myself, but for all those who have no clue how to use them, hence I'm asking for a volunteer to improve the wiki page directly πŸ™‚

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

        There's been notable progress on the wiki (especially thanks to @borzel), but as you probably guess there's still plenty of room for improvement, including empty pages.

        Getting inspiration from XS docs is allowed as long as we do not copy contents from them, because they are copyrighted.

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        • fohdeesha
          fohdeesha Vates πŸͺ Pro Support Team πŸ’‘ last edited by

          I can start adding to this this weekend probably - would a "guide to installing pfsense" be useful? I know there's many guides out there already, but more than half of them have useless (or worse than useless) steps telling people to turn off things that don't need to be turned off

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          • olivierlambert
            olivierlambert Vates πŸͺ Founder & CEO 🦸 last edited by

            Go ahead @fohdeesha πŸ™‚

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            • Ethan6123
              Ethan6123 @olivierlambert last edited by

              @olivierlambert
              I don't want to step on any toes here. Would a guide to installing the Community Edition of Xen Orchestra be an appropriate addition to this documentation?

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              • olivierlambert
                olivierlambert Vates πŸͺ Founder & CEO 🦸 @Ethan6123 last edited by

                @Ethan6123 It's already here in the official XO doc: http://xen-orchestra.com/docs/from_the_sources.html

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                • Ethan6123
                  Ethan6123 last edited by

                  I've seen that but to be completely honest it wasn't very helpful to me. I'm talking about more of a step-by-step guide for Linux novices. I would be willing to create one but I don't completely understand the relationship between the XOA team and XCP-ng. I greatly appreciate the XOA team taking this project on and don't want to overstep any bounds.

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                  • borzel
                    borzel XCP-ng Center Team 🏚️ @Ethan6123 last edited by

                    @Ethan6123 https://github.com/search?q=xenorchestra&type=Repositories

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                    • olivierlambert
                      olivierlambert Vates πŸͺ Founder & CEO 🦸 @Ethan6123 last edited by

                      @Ethan6123 I'm not sure to really understand. The existing doc is a step by step guide. If you install it from the sources, you need a minimum knowledge, or if you don't want to, you can use XOA Free which doesn't require any knowledge and… it's free!

                      And finally, you can find on the web multiple 3rd party scripts to install it. Obviously, we cannot guarantee those will work, but if you have issues with those, you can always create issues on their repo!

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                      • Ethan6123
                        Ethan6123 @olivierlambert last edited by Ethan6123

                        @olivierlambert
                        Perhaps we are having a miscommunication. Whatever the issue it sounds like additional installation guides for Xen Orchestra Community Edition are not needed at this time.

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                        • borzel
                          borzel XCP-ng Center Team 🏚️ @Ethan6123 last edited by borzel

                          @Ethan6123 If you add one in our wiki, we will not delete it πŸ™‚ we are too much nerds to not be happy about improving the world (and our documentation)

                          You could write (for example) an overview page that links to the various possibilities.

                          And I think @olivierlambert is a bit biased because he earns some of his money with XOA licences πŸ’° and that's all fine!

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                          • olivierlambert
                            olivierlambert Vates πŸͺ Founder & CEO 🦸 last edited by

                            Nobody earns money with XOA Free πŸ˜‰ But otherwise, XOA licenses are what's paying XCP-ng dev right now, yes. Plus paid XOAs aren't meant for individuals/home labs, but for companies, and we'd like to companies get a support/turnkey solution that just work out-of-the-box πŸ™‚

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                              Patrik48 @olivierlambert last edited by

                              @olivierlambert Well, maybe its a tiny bit easier to sell support if the free documentations isnt top notch πŸ˜ƒ

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                              • olivierlambert
                                olivierlambert Vates πŸͺ Founder & CEO 🦸 last edited by olivierlambert

                                @Patrik48 it's not a goal for us to do that. You mainly sell support as in insurance: if you have an issue, you'll have access to the developers of XCP-ng to assist you with a private ticket (and with a fast response time).

                                This is something you can't have in a reasonable time when you rely only on the community.

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                                  Patrik48 @olivierlambert last edited by

                                  @olivierlambert I miss things like the manpages for the server, for the commands that is used to build up the answerfile.
                                  Is there a more complete documentations provided for those going for the payed support package?

                                  The OP was interested in a step by step guide, thats something that one can write after proper documentation is in place.

                                  Just to be clear, Im fully understand why this isnt a job that we can ask you to do
                                  for us.
                                  I just hopes that someone that is able to read the code can do it, Im just a sysadmin=)

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                                  • olivierlambert
                                    olivierlambert Vates πŸͺ Founder & CEO 🦸 last edited by

                                    1. Our wiki is open to edition for everyone
                                    2. Otherwise, feel free to create a support ticket asking us to write what you need πŸ™‚

                                    The main problem is more a priority problem, and obviously, pro support tickets are priority number 1.

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                                    • stormi
                                      stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team πŸš€ @Patrik48 last edited by

                                      @Patrik48 Just to make things clear: there is no documentation (or project of documentation) that would be restricted to those who subscribed to pro support.

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

                                        Recent changes to the documentation:

                                        • Updated https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/wiki/Updates-Howto with a "Precautions" section, and a "Get information about the updates" section.
                                        • Added https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/wiki/Additional-packages about additional packages installed to dom0, be it from XCP-ng repositories or from outside (CentOS, EPEL, and more).
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                                          maxcuttins @stormi last edited by

                                          Is there out a know issue paper about XCP8?
                                          I just come back from holidays and it sound it's time to upgrade...

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                                          • olivierlambert
                                            olivierlambert Vates πŸͺ Founder & CEO 🦸 last edited by

                                            Nothing specific except Windows XP support dropped in Xen.

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