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

                  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
                      last edited by

                      @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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                        Anonabhar @ronan-a
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                        @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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                          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
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                              @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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                                    hoerup
                                    last edited by

                                    What is current status? What is the rough expectation of next alpha/beta release

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

                                      What kind of status are you expecting?

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                                        Fungusware @olivierlambert
                                        last edited by

                                        @olivierlambert Yes, I had been doing this also for quite some time. It was certainly one of the most requested features. It also felt a bit 'brute force' to me so would be nice to use it built in.

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                                        • AnonabharA Offline
                                          Anonabhar @olivierlambert
                                          last edited by

                                          @olivierlambert Well.. I have been doing the occasional "yum update" with no new problems. Everything is working great, but I still have that re-scanning of the FS every 30 seconds.. Not impacting anything but just a little weird...

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                                            stormi Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team @hoerup
                                            last edited by stormi

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

                                            What is current status? What is the rough expectation of next alpha/beta release

                                            The next planned release should be the first beta. There's no precise ETA yet, but first quarter of 2023 is a likely window.

                                            Applying updates regularly on top of the alpha will also give you the same end-result.

                                            There are a lot of updated packages that are being prepared. They're currently in the xcp-ng-testing yum repository, because we haven't had time to test them all in our internal CI. All I could assess is that they install well (yum update --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing) and that the server I installed them to rebooted without any visible issue. Once tested, early January, they'll be moved to the xcp-ng-base repository and offered as updates to anyone running yum update on their 8.3. If you want to give it a go ahead of time, you can install them and see if everything works well or not, so that we can quickly work on any issues early January.

                                            Recent work on 8.3 touched:

                                            • the installer (soft RAID support improvements, IPv6 support, contribution of various small improvements to upstream repositories...)
                                            • automated installation ISO generation
                                            • adding memtest86+ to the installer, both in BIOS and UEFI modes
                                            • upgrading all packages to the same level as Xenserver 8 Stream's (that's the new name for Citrix Hypervisor 8 Cloud) preview update channels - we had 4 months of changes to catch up with.
                                            • redirecting http://ip_or_name_of_xcpng_server/ to https://ip_or_name_of_xcpng_server/
                                            • ongoing work with XenServer on the python2 to python3 transition
                                            • work on UEFI certificate handling, to reach a stage where it answers both XenServer's and our needs
                                            • and more.
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