Xen orchestra VM Console broken?

bberndt

Updated to a newer Xen orchestra recently, didn't record what version. But noticed today, that the VM console for a LOT of VMs is broken, and doesn't show up. XCP-ng Center still works fine.
Tried restarting the toolstack on one host, made no difference. Use the XenOrchestraInstallerUpdater to go to update, today, and it didn't fix anything Went back to the earliest version I had, that I can roll back to, and the consoles seem to work again. The working version is: build 04913 5.89/ 5.94.

Any ideas?

olivierlambert

Hi,

Always start with https://xen-orchestra.com/docs/community.html

Danp

No issues here with latest sources connecting to VM consoles.

bberndt

Is there any reason this might happen if my Xen Server is Citrix 7.1, or XCP 7.6? This is the current suspicion, after a suggestion from the writer of the install script.

bberndt

Made another VM with Rocky Linux 8, and a copy of the existing to duplicate my set up. Added some hosts to it, and sure enough same problem. Tried to pull an update to XenOrchestraInstallerUpdater, but its already up to date, and the author says its auto-updates.
So far, not finding a common thread, between them showing up and not showing up. Happens in Firefox, and Chrome, Doesn't appear tob e related to Xen Guest Tools version, getting device drivers from MS or no, or version of XenServer.
As long as im on this old version of XO, it seems to work.

I do see these when i bring up a VM console that doesn't show, and DON'T see them when one does show.

Failed when connecting: Failed to connect to server ( (code: 1005)) util.js:44:54
    Error util.js:44
    _fail rfb.js:578
    f rfb.js:233
    onclose websock.js:305
    open websock.js:307
    _connect rfb.js:384
    _updateConnectionState rfb.js:546
    connect rfb.js:279
    p react-novnc.js:106
    componentDidMount react-novnc.js:111
    React 12
    listen EventListener.js:29
    React 29

Tried changing state of a disconnected RFB object util.js:44:54
    Error util.js:44
    _updateConnectionState rfb.js:473
    disconnect rfb.js:284
    _clean react-novnc.js:66
    p react-novnc.js:72
    (Async: setTimeout handler)
    _onUpdateState react-novnc.js:44
    _updateConnectionState rfb.js:519
    _fail rfb.js:588
    f rfb.js:233
    onclose websock.js:305
    open websock.js:307
    _connect rfb.js:384
    _updateConnectionState rfb.js:546
    connect rfb.js:279
    p react-novnc.js:106
    componentDidMount react-novnc.js:111
    React 12
    listen EventListener.js:29
    React 29
        trapBubbledEvent
        listenTo
        z
        _updateDOMProperties
        mountComponent
        mountComponent
        mountChildren
        _createInitialChildren
        mountComponent
        mountComponent
        mountChildren
        _createInitialChildren
        mountComponent
        mountComponent
        performInitialMount
        mountComponent
        mountComponent
        performInitialMount
        mountComponent
        mountComponent
        performInitialMount
        mountComponent
        mountComponent
        performInitialMount
        mountComponent
        mountComponent
        performInitialMount
        mountComponent
        mountComponent

olivierlambert

Can you check since which commit you have the issue? (eg just before the commit that @ronivay pointed to you)

olivierlambert

Try to get on commit b9ff3db9b0e023aef36961d0127a266ae2b621a6 (just before c99120bd24b3b73128a0944bb54d4f1dd6ed61e8), rebuild and try again

bberndt

after googling some git commands; im not very versed in git at all, so not sure how to get that.
this is the one that last worked for me, and the one im currently using. I save the last 3 in @ronivay script.
v5.16.0-8953-g04913cabb

this is the one that I pulled and it seems to break:
v5.16.0-9058-gf6e1b9571

I see another comment on the issue tracker from @ronivay. I'll try to get to his suggestion a little later.
and just to link these two together for someone in the way future:
https://github.com/ronivay/XenOrchestraInstallerUpdater/issues/116

bberndt created this issue in ronivay/XenOrchestraInstallerUpdater

closed VM console not working in XO. #116

bberndt

@olivierlambert , I received exact instructions from @ronivay on how to do that. Using commit b9ff3db9b in my new temporary install of XO, everything works fine.
Moving to c99120b seems to break the console on anything other than XCP 8.2.
And I've mentioned before I think: all of our hardware does support XCP 8.2, but almost none of the RAID card monitor software works there. 80% of them are using 3Ware/ LSI 9750's. I can't recall the exact problem, but the executable for the web-admin doesn't run.

olivierlambert

We'll restore backward compatibility and fix that ( @florent will fix that commit). Thanks for reporting it
Your previous XCP-ng installs aren't patched anymore, so you are at risk. You should really migrate to it, regardless the rest (and maybe seek for a solution for your RAID monitoring, but installing stuff in dom0 is not recommended in general). At least this advice worth for production use, not home lab.

olivierlambert

Issue created: https://github.com/vatesfr/xen-orchestra/issues/6187

olivierlambert created this issue in vatesfr/xen-orchestra

closed Consoles are broken on older XCP/XS < 8.0 #6187

olivierlambert

We can't reproduce the problem here

bberndt

@olivierlambert
hrm, well, I bumped my temp install of XO back to the master branch, and consoles broke. -Appears- to only broke with XCP 7.6. 7.1, sites worked.

ronivay

I can also reproduce this with XCP-ng 7.6. I’ll try to do some additional tests. Let me know if there’s anything i can assist with.

olivierlambert

Okay we tested with XS 7.1 and XCP-ng 7.5, without any luck

Can you describe a bit more your test protocol?

florent

@ronivay I did a lot of tests yesterday (master/latest/old and new commit) , with a wide range of xcp and didn't reproduce it

Do you use any http proxy between XO an XCP ? Do you use some kind of network filtering ? do you use xo in HTTP or HTTPS mode ?

ronivay

Interestingly console for some old VM's with old OS are working, like centos 6, debian 8 but anything above those (centos7, debian 10, debian 11) aren't. I'm getting same errors in browser as listed by @bberndt earlier. This can be found from host xensource.log

Apr 14 09:55:45 xs xapi: [debug|xs|33053260 INET :::80|Connection to VM console R:7839b84e856e|console] VM OpaqueRef:be204b50-6028-41f7-9744-e94ad7329046 console port: Some unix:/var/run/xen/vnc-290
Apr 14 09:55:45 xs xapi: [error|xs|33053260 INET :::80|Connection to VM console R:7839b84e856e|console] No implementation for web-sockets console proxy to a Unix domain socket
Apr 14 09:55:46 xs xapi: [error|xs|33053260 INET :::80||backtrace] Connection to VM console R:7839b84e856e failed with exception (Failure "ws_proxy: not implemented")
Apr 14 09:55:46 xs xapi: [error|xs|33053260 INET :::80||backtrace] Raised (Failure "ws_proxy: not implemented")
Apr 14 09:55:46 xs xapi: [error|xs|33053260 INET :::80||backtrace] 1/1 xapi @ xs Raised at file (Thread 33053260 has no backtrace table. Was with_backtraces called?, line 0
Apr 14 09:55:46 xs xapi: [error|xs|33053260 INET :::80||backtrace]

So far i've tested with XO built with XenOrchestraInstallerUpdater (obviously ;)) and also built one manually, same symptoms. I've tried XO with and without reverse proxy, with http, with https, with one in same private network as XCP-ng host, with one connecting to it over VPN. No special firewalling or filtering in between and no HTTP proxy.

But as the error from host says, it sounds like it’s simply missing support for this type of console connection.

E: and just for the record. wsproxy package is installed:

# rpm -q wsproxy
wsproxy-1.6.0-4.el7.centos.x86_64

olivierlambert

@ronivay Do you mean it works for PV guests but not HVM ones?

edit: that might be the reason why we can't reproduce since we probably test on PV guest

ronivay

Yeah good point, all those old ones are indeed PV guests and all the rest are HVM.

florent

@ronivay that's a great information. I can reproduce the comportment with xenserver 7.1 CU 2
Thank you