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    New guest tools ISO for Linux and FreeBSD. Can you help with the tests?

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

      Ok, so depending on the version, they sometimes have /etc/centos-release and sometimes not... Can you add this line to xe-linux-distribution before the existing identify_sangoma call and test again? (you'll have to copy the Linux directory from the mounted ISO somewhere else then chmod the file to make it writable)

      identify_sangoma /etc/sangoma-release && exit 0
      
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      • gskgerG Offline
        gskger Top contributor @stormi
        last edited by

        @stormi Here we go

        [root@freepbx Linux]# /tmp/Linux/xe-linux-distribution
        os_distro="sangoma"
        os_majorver="7"
        os_minorver="8"
        os_uname="3.10.0-1127.19.1.el7.x86_64"
        os_name="Sangoma Linux release 7.8.2003 (Core) "
        
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        • stormiS Offline
          stormi Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team @gskger
          last edited by

          @gskger Thanks. I'll fix the script and submit a new RPM.

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          • gskgerG Offline
            gskger Top contributor @stormi
            last edited by

            @stormi Great! I have snapshots at hand to test FreePBX again with the new testing guest tools iso. No need for testing the other distros again I assume?

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

              @gskger Well, in theory I'm perfectly capable of breaking the other distros so better be defensive 🙂

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

                xcp-ng-pv-tools-8.2.0-8.xcpng8.2 that should fix FreePBX detection for good (I still don't know why from two people with the exact same version of FreePBX, one has /etc/centos-release and one hasn't...) and hopefully not break anything for other distros... is available in the xcp-ng-testing repo.

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

                  @stormi Installed the new testing guest tools on my two playlab hosts (yum update xcp-ng-pv-tools --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing) and re-run most of my earlier tests.

                  From fresh install to testing guest tools on FreePBX 15 (4a-c)

                  [root@freepbx ~]# bash /mnt/Linux/install.sh
                  Detected `Sangoma Linux release 7.8.2003 (Core) ' (sangoma version 7).
                  
                  The following changes will be made to this Virtual Machine:
                    * update arp_notify sysctl.
                    * packages to be installed/upgraded:
                      - xe-guest-utilities-7.20.0-8.x86_64.rpm
                      - xe-guest-utilities-xenstore-7.20.0-8.x86_64.rpm
                  
                  Continue? [y/n] y
                  
                  Preparing...                          ################################# [100%]
                  Updating / installing...
                     1:xe-guest-utilities-xenstore-7.20.################################# [ 50%]
                     2:xe-guest-utilities-7.20.0-8      ################################# [100%]
                  
                  You should now reboot this Virtual Machine.
                  

                  From current guest tools to testing guest tools on FreePBX 15 (4b-c)

                  [root@freepbx ~]# bash /mnt/Linux/install.sh
                  Detected `Sangoma Linux release 7.8.2003 (Core) ' (sangoma version 7).
                  
                  The following changes will be made to this Virtual Machine:
                    * packages to be installed/upgraded:
                      - xe-guest-utilities-7.20.0-8.x86_64.rpm
                      - xe-guest-utilities-xenstore-7.20.0-8.x86_64.rpm
                  
                  Continue? [y/n] y
                  
                  Preparing...                          ################################# [100%]
                  Updating / installing...
                     1:xe-guest-utilities-xenstore-7.20.################################# [ 33%]
                     2:xe-guest-utilities-7.20.0-8      ################################# [ 67%]
                  Cleaning up / removing...
                     3:xe-guest-utilities-7.20.0-1      ################################# [100%]
                  
                  You should now reboot this Virtual Machine.
                  

                  Managent agent now is 7.20.0-8, IP is correct and live migration as well as shutdown/reboot worked without an issue.

                  What I found strange is that for 4b-c (FreePBX) and 3b-c (Centos), I have to reboot the VM to make the new management agent show on the VMs general tab.
                  I can not remember that I had to do that in my last test and it is not necessary for 1b-c (Debian 10) or 2b-c (Ubuntu 20.04). No need to reboot 1a-c, 2a-c, 3a-c and 4a-c since the management agent is shown correctly right away.

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

                    Thanks @gskger. I think the fact that some b-c transitions require a service restart and others don't may be caused by differences in the post-update scripts that are run. Maybe the DEB packages we made restart the service while the RPM ones don't when the tools are updated.

                    This might already have been the case before, in Citrix tools, or maybe not. I don't think it's a big deal but it's interesting to note that difference. I'll try to have a look if time permits.

                    If curious, the package definitions are located at https://github.com/xcp-ng-rpms/xcp-ng-pv-tools/tree/master/SOURCES. debian-* files for debian, and xe-guest-utilities.spec. I think that not restarting the service automatically after an update is default behaviour in RPM world. I don't know about debian's position on this.

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                    • gskgerG Offline
                      gskger Top contributor @stormi
                      last edited by

                      @stormi Perfect! Ok for me 👍 ! Any upcoming tests on the new guest tools? Otherwise I would try something else with my playlab, loosing the ability to conduct consistent tests 😇 .

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

                        @gskger no upcoming tests on the new guest tools. You can break your lab 🙂

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                        • gskgerG Offline
                          gskger Top contributor @stormi
                          last edited by

                          @stormi Nice! Looking forward to when the new gest tools are available.

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                          • O Offline
                            onyxfire
                            last edited by onyxfire

                            Just found this thread and tested the updates on the latest updated XCP-ng. They install fine on the Rocky Linux 8.4 GA release but there is a minor issue in the logs when you start the xe daemon:

                            Started LSB: @BRAND_GUEST@ daemon providing host integration services.
                            

                            Looks like the branding isn't updated in your RPM.

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                              onyxfire
                              last edited by

                              Also testing Rocky Linux with test tools provided the following results:

                              • Shutdown: OK

                              • Startup: OK

                              • Live Migration: OK

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                                stormi Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team @onyxfire
                                last edited by

                                @onyxfire Thanks for the report. I'll fix it.

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

                                  @onyxfire This is now fixed in the latest xcp-ng-pv-tools package in the testing repo. Can you test it?

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                                    onyxfire @stormi
                                    last edited by

                                    @stormi Sorry for the delay in testing. This looks to be fixed now. Thanks!

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                                    • kdmK Offline
                                      kdm
                                      last edited by

                                      I'd like to help: I plan to test this against my Mint Linux 20.1 VM and my openmediavault 5 VM.
                                      Question on "3.3 clean shutdown and reboot working". Any time I shutdown XCp-ng, I normally shutdown each VM first. Since I have guest tools installed, should I be able to simply shut down XCP-ng and rely on it to politely shut down my VMs?
                                      Thanks.

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                                        stormi Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team @kdm
                                        last edited by

                                        @kdm On a pool with several hosts, xe host-disable uuid=... then xe host-shutdown|reboot uuid=... will evacuate the host towards the other hosts of the pool.

                                        On a single host pool, the same commands will attempt a clean shutdown on each VM.

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                                        • theAeonT Offline
                                          theAeon
                                          last edited by theAeon

                                          Seems the SUSE Leap 15 assumes the ability to run SysVinit scripts but as of 15.3 (and tumbleweed) insserv-compat is not included and only systemd scripts are supported. It seems there's already a functional systemd script used on RHEL/Fedora, so I have to imagine this is a simple fix of the install.sh.

                                          EDIT: did some pull reqs-should fix MicroOS identification at the least. Could probably handle Tumbleweed the same way. Tried my hand at some systemd rpms too, but god knows if they work.

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

                                            Thanks. I'll look at your PRs.

                                            I'm all for adding the ability to extract distro data from /etc/os-release (see my issue there: https://github.com/xenserver/xe-guest-utilities/issues/108) so I'll likely backport the commit that was contributed upstream. This won't change install.sh (you'd still need to use the -m and -d) but it should make the service able to start and report OS and version in many additional distros.

                                            For systemd vs sysvinit we need either to create twice more DEBs and RPMs and make install.sh able to decide on which to use depending on the distro, or include both kinds of service files in the packages and use post-install scripts to decide which to enable.

                                            stormi created this issue in xenserver/xe-guest-utilities

                                            closed Use `/etc/os-release` for recent distros #108

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