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    XCP-ng 8.3 public alpha 🚀

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      cocoon XCP-ng Center Team @stormi
      last edited by cocoon

      stormi Hi, sounds great 🙂

      I tried to use the vTPM Management and it seems for me that I am either missing updates (but I have even testing repo enabled) or the feature daemon is missing this entry:

      restrict_vtpm

      When I try to manage vTPM it generates this error on the server:
      Raised Server_error(FEATURE_RESTRICTED, [ restrict_vtpm ])

      Last added online I see Cloud:
      https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp-featured/blob/master/bin/v6_server.ml#L68

      Would be great to be able to configure it somehow, even add custom features in a config file, there already exists an similar issue entry for it:
      https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/issues/184

      2023-01-09_vTPM-001.png

      2023-01-09_vTPM-002.png

      ./var/log/xensource.log:Jan  9 16:13:55 xcp-ng-vm5 xapi: [error||1247 :::80|dispatch:VTPM.create D:6eb04e1f3871|backtrace] 1/9 xapi Raised at file ocaml/xapi/xapi_vtpm.ml, line 24
      

      2023-01-09_vTPM-003.png

      stormi created this issue in xcp-ng/xcp

      open Configurable license daemon #184

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

        cocoon Thanks for the feedback. Let me summon BenjiReis for the missing feature key.

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        • gskgerG Offline
          gskger Top contributor @stormi
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          stormi Both host of my playlab are happy with the 73 patches applied by yum update and reboot 👍 . I assume that a rolling updated with XO would have worked as well 🤔

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            kaeptn @stormi
            last edited by

            stormi

            Hello.
            After applying the 73 patches there is a pending task:

            xe task-list
            
            uuid ( RO)                : 32fc65c5-3faa-ff27-662d-7cde2f630377
                      name-label ( RO): xapi events
                name-description ( RO):
                          status ( RO): pending
                        progress ( RO): 0.000
            

            It is still there after applying the most recent updates a day ago.
            Progress stays at 0 forever.

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

              kaeptn I asked a XAPI developer who told me it's expected: it's the new way to watch over VM events from xenopsd to update the metadata". The positive counterpart is this removes a lot of spurious "INVALID_SESSION" errors from xensource.log caused by the former way of doing it.

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

                There's a pending enhancement which might remove the task from the database and thus be more transparent.

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

                  cocoon Could try with xcp-featured from the xcp-ng-testing repository? It should enable the feature.

                  yum update xcp-featured --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing
                  
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                    cocoon XCP-ng Center Team @stormi
                    last edited by

                    stormi Works 👍

                    2023-01-13_vTPM-001_fixed.png

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

                      Thanks cocoon

                      So, I just pushed two updates to the 8.3 repositories, that you can get with a simple yum update:

                      • xcp-featured, which enables partial vTPM support
                      • guest-templates-json-*, which adds VM templates for RHEL 9 and derivatives.
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                        cocoon XCP-ng Center Team @stormi
                        last edited by

                        OK, TPM is visible in Windows Server 2022 but no secure boot atm.
                        Bios says it is disabled. Installed it in a virtual XCP-NG VM on ESXi.

                        2023-01-13_vTPM-002_fixed.png

                        2023-01-13_vTPM-003_fixed.png

                        2023-01-13_vTPM-004_fixed.png

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

                          cocoon Did you enable Secure Boot on the VM, and did you also install SecureBoot certificates on your pool? (and if you installed the certificates to the pool after you first started the VM - with or without SB, you also need to install them to the VM by putting it in user mode: varstore-sb-state user {VM-UUID} varstore-sb-state {VM-UUID} user).

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                            cocoon XCP-ng Center Team @stormi
                            last edited by

                            stormi said in XCP-ng 8.3 public alpha 🚀:

                            cocoon Did you enable Secure Boot on the VM, and did you also install SecureBoot certificates on your pool? (and if you installed the certificates to the pool after you first started the VM - with or without SB, you also need to install them to the VM by putting it in user mode: varstore-sb-state user {VM-UUID}).

                            Ah yes, thanks, that works 👍
                            the command is just slightly different:

                            varstore-sb-state {VM-UUID} user
                            

                            2023-01-16_secureboot-001_fixed.png

                            2023-01-16_secureboot-002_fixed.png

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                              stormi Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team
                              last edited by

                              If you want to push the vTPM test further, you can activate bitlocker in a Windows VM and see if after a reboot the drives are decrypted without having to enter passcodes manually.

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                                cocoon XCP-ng Center Team @stormi
                                last edited by cocoon

                                stormi That was my plan, Bitlocker feature is already installed, will test this yes 😉

                                2023-01-16_bitlocker-001.png

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                                  stormi Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team
                                  last edited by stormi

                                  Small Announcement / Testing Guide

                                  There is a new and easy way for you to help testing XCP-ng 8.3: a few test scripts from the Xen project which deserve to be run on a wide variety of hosts. You don't need to run them on every host if they are truly identical, but it's good to run them on a wide range of hardware.

                                  The first one is XTF (stands for Xen Test Framework)

                                  Be aware that some of the tests may sometimes cause the host to crash.

                                  XTF

                                  Enable HVM FEP on the host. This is not mandatory but if you don't, several tests that require it will be skipped:

                                  /opt/xensource/libexec/xen-cmdline --set-xen hvm_fep
                                  reboot
                                  

                                  Build XTF

                                  yum install gcc git -y
                                  git clone git://xenbits.xen.org/xtf.git
                                  cd xtf
                                  make -j8
                                  

                                  (Optional, protects your host from a crash if its hardware is vulnerable to XSA-304) Switch EPT superpages to secure mode:

                                  xl set-parameters ept=no-exec-sp 
                                  

                                  Run the tests

                                  # self test
                                  ./xtf-runner selftest -q --host
                                  # all tests
                                  # -q stands for quiet. Remove one or both if you want to see details.
                                  ./xtf-runner -aqq --host
                                  # check return code. Should be "3" which means "no failures but some tests were skipped":
                                  echo $?
                                  

                                  Switch back EPT superpages to fast mode, if needed

                                  xl set-parameters ept=exec-sp 
                                  

                                  There will be a few SKIPPED tests, but there shouldn't be many.

                                  Known skipped tests:

                                  • test-hvm32-umip test-hvm64-umip: skipped if the CPU is not recent enough to support UMIP.
                                  • test-pv64-xsa-167: always skipped
                                  • test-pv64-xsa-182: skipped in default configuration.

                                  You can ignore them.

                                  xen-dom0-tests

                                  The testsuite is very limited in Xen 4.13, but let's still run what's available.

                                  Install:

                                  yum install xen-dom0-tests
                                  

                                  Run

                                  /usr/libexec/xen/bin/test-cpu-policy
                                  # check return code. Must be 0, otherwise this means there was a failure.
                                  echo $?
                                  
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                                  • gskgerG Offline
                                    gskger Top contributor
                                    last edited by gskger

                                    stormi I am afraid my playlab host (Dell Optiplex 9010, Intel i5-3550 CPU) is to old to contribute to the XCP-ng 8.3 alpha testing, but I run the XTF test with this results:

                                    [h01]# ./xtf-runner selftest -q --host
                                    Combined test results:
                                    test-hvm32-selftest                      SUCCESS
                                    test-hvm32pae-selftest                   SUCCESS
                                    test-hvm32pse-selftest                   SUCCESS
                                    test-hvm64-selftest                      SUCCESS
                                    test-pv64-selftest                       SUCCESS
                                    

                                    followed by

                                    [h01]# ./xtf-runner -aqq --host
                                    Combined test results:
                                    test-hvm32-umip                          SKIP
                                    test-hvm64-umip                          SKIP
                                    test-pv64-xsa-167                        SKIP
                                    test-pv64-xsa-182                        SKIP
                                    [h01]# echo $?
                                    3
                                    [h01]#
                                    

                                    I have some HP Elitedesk 600 G6 mini coming in to test as a small virtualization lab (i5-10500T, 6 cores, 12 threads, 2.3 GHz base clock, 64GB RAM). Not the target infrastructure but will add to the range of hardware.

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                                      Forza @olivierlambert
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                                      olivierlambert said in XCP-ng 8.3 public alpha 🚀:

                                      It's an alpha not because it's unstable 😉 Just that we can make some updates before the official release. Happy to see it works well!

                                      A thought. Is there a planned list of stuff that we can vote on to have on the next release?

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                                      • olivierlambertO Online
                                        olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
                                        last edited by

                                        Hi,

                                        No/not yet/our backlog is already too full to make many choices for something that should be out in a matter of months.

                                        I mean, changing a color somewhere is OK, but anything else is not in the realm of possible for now.

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

                                          stormi My first HP Elitedesk 600 G6 Mini arrived (i5-10500T, 6 cores, 12 threads, 2.3 GHz base clock, 64GB RAM, 256GB NVME) and XCP-ng 8.3 alpha installed and updated right away (but I have the efi: EFI_MEMMAP not enabled message with a boot delay).

                                          The XTF test on this non-enterprise hardware returns

                                          [M01]# ./xtf-runner selftest -q --host
                                          Combined test results:
                                          test-hvm32-selftest                      SUCCESS
                                          test-hvm32pae-selftest                   SUCCESS
                                          test-hvm32pse-selftest                   SUCCESS
                                          test-hvm64-selftest                      SUCCESS
                                          test-pv64-selftest                       SUCCESS
                                          

                                          and

                                          [M01]# ./xtf-runner -aqq --host
                                          Combined test results:
                                          test-hvm32-umip                          SKIP
                                          test-hvm64-umip                          SKIP
                                          test-pv64-xsa-167                        SKIP
                                          test-pv64-xsa-182                        SKIP
                                          [M01]# echo $?
                                          3
                                          [M01]#
                                          

                                          Have not done anything else with this unit yet.

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                                            Strebor
                                            last edited by

                                            Sorry for being very late to this show, but I would like to thank everybody involved in getting XCP-ng ready for using on modern 10th and 11th gen Intel NUCs! Great job!

                                            So, to replace (in the near future) the old and large power guzzling lab servers in my office, I've just ordered 2x Intel NUC 11 with i5-1135G7 CPU and the intel 2.5 gbit I225 NIC.

                                            Looking forward to testing them and getting ready for XCP-ng 8.3!

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