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Hi,
long time no see,
Now after so much time waiting, I finally was able to order something with good pricing,I hope this will replace my old DL380 servers + ESXi 6.5,
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Nice!
Let us know if it works out of the box or not
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Any update on this? I was looking at some of these Ryzen mini computers to use as XCP-NG hosts.
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I just ordered one unit for Vates so we can test it internally.
I'll keep you posted on the result.
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Some news: it's just shipped from China.
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Hopefully it arrives quickly. I'd really like to move my lab from work to home, and that will require small devices with low noise and low heat. I also want a reasonable amount of cores and ram.
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Hii,
yes its working,
but not the second 2.5 Gb ethernet, since it requires newer kernel,
same with PCI passthrough the wifi card is new popular AX200 which requires newer kernel also,I have USB passthrough a Wifi USB adapter, the speed looks underperforming, but i haven't test the adapter plugged in to laptop and see its speed comparison,
I didnt ask much about it, since I guess its not coorporate use case except closely to edge computing? maybe not too important?if you need other info, you can tell me, perhaps some logs or debuging, i will share
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I've used fully passive Atom Mini-ITX systems from ASrock for oVirt for the last years. Contrary to Intel's documentation they can be upgraded to 32GB of RAM and I've also added 2.5GBit RealTek USB3 NICs for a bit better Gluster throughput.
I currently have one of them running Xcp-ng, unfortunately without support for the 2.5Gbit adapter so far, but the console is working.
The RealTek source code driver is an #ifdef nightmare, it won't compile clean on CentOS7 and I had to patch an older variant by hand to make it work there. Support on CentOS 8 was also a bit shoddy, endless diagnostic messages with the built-in driver, but functional. Abandoned that when CentOS EOL got announced.
Unfortunately Xcp-ng 8.2.1 loses the display on my Ryzen 5800U based notebook, just like all other more recent hardware devices I've tried, so I'm a bit surprised the 4700U works, when it's essentially the very same iGPU: does the Minisforum support legacy boot and did you use that?
Because I'm under the impression that the display loss is related to UEFI issues.
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@olivierlambert Could you get the hm80 running, even with the I225-V Ethernet Card and the possibility to use the gpu of the processor?
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Everything worked out of the box with 8.3
(including the 2.5G)Didn't test anything GPU related.
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@olivierlambert Hi Olivier,
Working on putting 8.2.1 on a HM80 right now moving from Unraid, and it's giving me the following error at about 50% through Completing Installation:
Failed to run efibootmgr: Could not prepare Boot variable Input/output error
I've tried several times, and tested with the alternate kernel, but it's hanging at 46% for a minute, then getting to 50% and giving the error shortly after. Not sure if this is something on my end, or if it's a difference between 8.3 and 8.2.1, but would love an assist if you've done some testing with 8.2.1 as well. Removing the USB and rebooting anyway seems to not give any issues until I try to log in, at which point the password I set before doesn't allow me to get in to anything.
Loving the experience of using XCP-ng and Xen Orchestra on the whole, but I use the HM80 as a portable server for LAN parties, and because of that it's one of my more important ones (and unfortunately I'm 2 days out from one of said LAN parties, so hopefully this is a nice quick one to dig into and solve).
Will also test out 8.3 Beta 2 to see if I have the same working out of the box like you said it did for you, but as it's the server that actually has some use a production vs 'if this goes down so be it', I'd have preferred it to stay on stable.
Edit: Looks like 8.3 Beta 2 is working out of the box despite 8.2.1 not doing so. Would love to know the reason why, but I'm just glad this is at least working.
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@TheRedHerring I have an HM90 that I use as a host and it worked with 8.2 out of the box except for the 2.5G NIC. I switched to 8.3 and everything worked out of the box.