Xen Orchestra Lite

bogdantomasciuc

High level overview feedback:
So a bit of feedback from me too.

The layout looks great!
I believe it has just enough to get one started with using the hypervisor (taking into account the existing labels and the placeholder buttons) or to help you in a pinch.

Current issue found that I assume should work at this time based on other messages is that the console seems to have been implemented but is not working. Chrome inspector console shows: WebSocket connection to 'wss://<my local ip address>/console?uuid=e4cd9c61-d399-a3fa-33f7-5699c920d523&session_id=OpaqueRef%3A927fa4fe-74c2-456a-bfd8-d84e98c3bf42' failed. After that there is a line with "Failed when connecting: Connection closed (code: 1006)".

The interface looks very clean and oriented on functionality. Congratulations and keep up the good work!

olivierlambert

What version of XCP-ng are you using @bogdantomasciuc ? The console should work on 8.2.1

pdonias

@bogdantomasciuc This is probably due to the browser rejecting self-signed SSL certificates when it tries to connect to the console (the console connections go directly to the slave hosts instead of going through the master). To fix that, go to each of your slave hosts' landing pages with HTTPS (https://<slave host IP>/). The browser should ask you if you want to accept self-signed certificates. Click on Accept. Once you've done that for all your hosts, go back to XO Lite, refresh and the consoles should work.

In the next releases, XO Lite will be able to detect when the self-signed certificates haven't been accepted and give clear instructions on what to do

pdonias

@redy Thanks for the feedback, we've added a "coming soon" message on pages that aren't implemented yet, to avoid confusion.

bogdantomasciuc

@olivierlambert I am currently on 8.2. I will upgrade and try later. Thank you!
@pdonias The certificates are already accepted. I will check back after I update to 8.2.1 as suggested by @olivierlambert but thank you very much for your suggestion!

mjtbrady

The console doesn't work for me either.

XCP-ng is 8.2.1

My workstation is Fedora 36 and I have tried both Firefox and Chrome.

I am connecting to XO-Lite over https so the cert has been accepted.

I am using the navigation panel on the left to navigate down through the pool -> host -> vm and clicking on the vm. There is no response at all. The main window where I assume the console is supposed to be remains blank.

Also the link to change the theme that was towards the top left has disappeared so I am stuck in dark mode.

olivierlambert

The link is on the right now (moon/sun for dark/light theme).

pdonias

@mjtbrady Could you open your browser console (F12 > Console tab) and check if there's an error message when you open a VM console?

mjtbrady

@pdonias

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mjtbrady

@olivierlambert

I took that to be an icon associated with the logout. I think that the theme and logout either need to both be text or both be icons or more obviously be separate buttons. Or maybe it is just me.

pdonias

@mjtbrady Did you accept the self-signed certificates by navigating to https://10.42.27.25/ and clicking on Accept? It's important to accept them for all the slave hosts, not only for the master host.

mjtbrady

@pdonias

That was the problem, but I do not think that it should be.

I am browsing to XO Lite using the FQDN of the XCP-ng host and the certificate had been accepted for that. But the console connection being made by XO Lite is to the XCP-ng host IP address.

olivierlambert

Yes, Xen API (XAPI) is returning IP addresses only.

bogdantomasciuc

Indeed, @olivierlambert, that was the issue and it works now. So for whoever has the same issue. First go to the local IP address of the host (NOT to the domain name), accept the certificate and then go to /xolite.html and it will work both with the ip address and the domain name in the address field.
Thanx again for clearing things up!

pnunn

Hi Guys.

Just a note for dumb bums like me... I tried out XO Lite (coming along nicely) but it took be a bit to work out that it needed to be installed on the pool master.

I put it onto one of the slaves, and tried to log in, but got no feedback at all, just nothing changed.

I eventually looked in the xo logs and found it was complaining about being on the slave not the master.. duh.. when you think about it.. but some feedback in the gui would help

olivierlambert

That will be easier when it will be released officially, meaning bundled directly inside all hosts. So the slave will redirect you to the master.

markxc

@olivierlambert

nice tool will there be an option to disable remote google font integration because of GDRP?

olivierlambert

We could probably host the font on our side directly, let me check that internally

Forza

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krakers

@Forza said in Xen Orchestra Lite:

I tried this, but I just get a 403 forbidden, trying to access the pool master from the browser. Do I need to start a webserver or something to get this going?

Use https://
I struggled with the same