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    XCP-ng 8.3 public alpha 🚀

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    • J Offline
      jameso
      last edited by

      No offence to cocoon for doing great work with their release, but will v20.04.01 or variant be made available to support 8.3? 🙂

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      • AnonabharA Offline
        Anonabhar
        last edited by

        Oh! Is this a new feature in XCP-ng 8.3????

        179a8ab7-7c29-4aab-b241-34e9ef54708a-image.png

        If so... YEA!!!!

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

          It's a new feature added in SMAPIv1, creating XAPI tasks for the coalesce process 🙂 (done by Mark Syms at XenServer). I was VERY happy to saw that pull request 1y ago 🙂

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          • C Offline
            cocoon XCP-ng Center Team @jameso
            last edited by

            As I had now a chance to take a quick look, XO Light will be a great addition when it's ready 👍

            Currently I cannot test the Console, but the Dashboard looks nice and of course I would have some ideas what would be great to have there, but you might already have a list.
            But I would say for troubleshooting to extract logs and use the bugtool might be handy to have available.

            I could not get any VM button to do anything, it simply might not be implemented right now, like poweron etc.

            But I have seen at least one possible problems that you might want to add to a FAQ:
            If you have ublock adblocker installed it seems to cause problems if you don't whitelist:

            001-ublock.png

            @jameso said in XCP-ng 8.3 public alpha 🚀:

            No offence to cocoon for doing great work with their release, but will v20.04.01 or variant be made available to support 8.3? 🙂

            Just my 2 cents:
            I think chances are a bit better now, because it looks like both teams (XCP-NG and Citrix) are working more closely together now.
            In the past I would have said that development goes much more in different directions and so new things would usually not be added to the client as nobody is really working on it.

            But now it could happen maybe if release is near or ready. I would not expect it for alphas and betas, but mostly depends on if @borzel will find the time then.

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

              @cocoon VM actions are already planned (next step after the graphs, so maybe before 2023, but there's very little time now 😄 )

              About ublock, I don't remember having issues with it, but obviously, we'll test 🙂 (also, on the longer run, if the "online version" will fail to load, we'll fallback to an locally "older" installed version.

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                cocoon XCP-ng Center Team @olivierlambert
                last edited by

                @olivierlambert
                In that Browser I have even more blockers like AdNauseam + uBlock + NoScript, but the problem can be the same, just to remember that Browsers might have blocking utils in it if there is a problem for someone.

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

                  But that's weird that Adblockers will block our domain, which is harmless and without any spam 🤔 How could we explain it's "flagged"?

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                    cocoon XCP-ng Center Team @olivierlambert
                    last edited by

                    @olivierlambert
                    I can't explain it, just had seen the error 🤔
                    and here it seems to have happened, too:
                    https://stackoverflow.com/a/62646075/19868457

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

                      Might worth a contact to the plugin authors to put it in a authorized list (or avoid to put it in a block list)

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                      • apzA Offline
                        apz
                        last edited by

                        Is this release technically the point where XCP-ng starts to veer off more from the XS source as to my understanding they're already keeping some parts out of public repos nowdays?

                        It'd be interesting to see newer Xen for example in the future and the SMAPIv3!

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

                          We can't answer since it's not only on us. But on our side, we have more knowledge and more capabilities than previously to make our own moves. However, we want to keep our "upstream first" philosophy and convince XS to stay close to us. That's why we spend some times to get decent pull requests and some patience to get them merged 🙂

                          We truly hope to share a common future where we wouldn't have to work twice on the same problems, but instead share our man power to be more efficient together. The rest is on XS team 🙂

                          Also, as said before, in increasing order of complexity:

                          1. Get a more recent Xen version
                          2. Get a more recent Linux kernel version
                          3. Get a more recent platform (beyond CentOS 7)
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                          • AnonabharA Offline
                            Anonabhar
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                            Hi Everyone,

                            I was wondering if this is a bug or if it is something specific to my setup. But.. I just noticed that a 'rescan' seems to be happening on my lab server every 30 seconds..

                            I noticed this because I was making a new template for XOCE and was deleting snapshots (viewing the /var/log/SMlog to wait until the coalescing was complete) and noticed that this was happening.

                            I will include the log file for viewing.. The log file is trimmed from 0730 -> present so it would fit in the posting limits.. But this was happening from the begging of the rotated logfile..

                            smlog.txt

                            ~Peg

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

                              This is normal 🙂 Adding @ronan-a in the loop to get a confirmation that SMAPIv1 is scanning every 30 secs.

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                              • ronan-aR Offline
                                ronan-a Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team @Anonabhar
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                                @Anonabhar Could you upload the other logs (xensource.log, daemon.log, etc)? There is no valid reason to have a call to cleanup.py (not a SR scan) every 30s if there is nothing to coalesce. 🙂

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                                • AnonabharA Offline
                                  Anonabhar @ronan-a
                                  last edited by

                                  @ronan-a Sure.. I would be happy to... I just had to append a .txt to the end of the file in order to upload it.. Please remove .txt and decompress

                                  logs2.tar.gz.txt

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                                  • F Offline
                                    Fungusware
                                    last edited by

                                    So I read about the 'VM snapshot with disk exclusion' feature.

                                    Is this supported at the XAPI level now? If so, how would one go about using it?

                                    Regards

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                                    • BenjiReisB Offline
                                      BenjiReis Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team @Fungusware
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                                      @Fungusware Hi!

                                      Yes this feature is supported at XAPI level, the VM.snapshot method now has a ignore_vdis field which is a list of VDI ref to not include in the snapshot.
                                      This also available through xe:

                                      xe vm-snapshot vm=... ignore-vdi-uuids=uuid1,uuid2...
                                      

                                      Regards

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                                      • olivierlambertO Offline
                                        olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO @Fungusware
                                        last edited by

                                        @Fungusware Yes, @BenjiReis spent some time to make that contribution to XAPI upstream, see https://github.com/xapi-project/xen-api/pull/4563

                                        benjamreis opened this pull request in xapi-project/xen-api

                                        closed Add `ignore_vdis` to `VM.snapshot` method #4563

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

                                          Note: this is already implemented in Xen Orchestra since a while 🙂 (by default we try to ignore the [NOBAK] disk if XAPI is able to do it, which is now the case for 8.3)

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                                            Fungusware @BenjiReis
                                            last edited by

                                            @BenjiReis Thanks for the info.

                                            I'll see if I can support into the SDK also, at least for .NET anyway.

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