Xen Orchestra Lite

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

Forza

@krakers Thanks. I realised this eventually

ajpri1998

I've noticed that the UI defaults to French. After signing in, I can change the language to English. Can we get an option for default language or change the language on the login screen?

Great work so far!

olivierlambert

Is your browser in French? But yes, we can probably store a local cookie on your preferred language Adding @pdonias to this.

pdonias

@olivierlambert Yes, we'll store it in a cookie eventually. In the meantime, I'm changing the default language to English as it was probably a mistake to set it to French in the first place

olivierlambert

haha indeed it's a mistake, I thought it was because my browser is in French

luca steinke

Will it be possible to log in to XOLite via XOA local users at some point or will only root/admin be supported?

olivierlambert

XO Lite is talking to XAPI directly, so it's not related to XO users. But I'm not sure to understand what do you need exactly?

luca steinke

@olivierlambert well when XOA is down and we need to restart it, it'd be nice if we could log in with another user. Is there any way to create XAPI users which can use XOLite then?

olivierlambert

I suppose you might create another PAM user (so system user) but I never tried myself Feel free to experiment and keep me posted

alisonD

Good day, I am not sure if it's worth upping back this old thread, however I find myself in a cumbersome situation.
I have recently acquired a Protectly device, VP46**, and this device seems to be playing nice with XCP-NG, but with the latest version which is an alpha version - for Intel drivers.
This alpha comes with the latest version of XOA lite which is ... well as indicated above, kind of alpha as well.
Is there a way to have a functional XOA - let alone lite - to be able to create VM ?
Oh and unfortunately yes, I am using Firefox. Thank you !

olivierlambert

You can run XOA running on your XCP-ng host without issue. XO Lite VM creation is planned but for later.

alisonD

@olivierlambert Thank you, so your go-to suggestion is to create a VM through CLI and setup XOA there ? Or there is something I missed in the setup ? I simply connected via the browser to the XCP-NG instance, via Firefox, and only got the lite alpha version.

olivierlambert

You don't need to create a VM manually to get XOA, you can just deploy it Eg https://vates.tech/deploy/

SteamMatthew

I look forward to the official 8.3 release (updating XOA every week from source and updating patches once released), I understand 8.3 it's not LTS but for a Home Lab. It's even more eye catching in terms of a lite UI to see and manage VMs as an alternative to managing a pool from XOA (plus sweet looking designs). Sometimes I’ve mistakenly stopped XOA along with other VMs on a host to quickly apply updates (faster for me to get things done) and having lite would make it easy to be back up and running.

The biggest ask is to have an external console window in XOA, which I believe has already been merged for lite. Easier viewing of consoles, sometimes with it being embedded in the same window. My text inputs for media searches for an ISO to mount doesn't always register, creating challenges for ensuring my inputs are being directed properly.

I've been a fan of XCP-ng to run virtual VMs for my own projects. Thank you.

Keep up the great work.