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    • F Offline
      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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        • stormiS Offline
          stormi Vates πŸͺ XCP-ng Team @hoerup
          last edited by stormi

          @hoerup said in XCP-ng 8.3 public alpha πŸš€:

          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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          • jhansenJ Offline
            jhansen
            last edited by

            Hello,
            I have some trouble with update from 8.2 to 8.3

            I boot the installation from USB with Image xcp-ng-8.3.0-alpha2.
            Everything works until I get to the installation. The backup of the old version is still made, then this error message appears:
            Old partition layout is unsupported, run prepare_host_upgrade and try again. Reboot
            The 8.2 installation is a 3 month old fresh installation, I doubt there is an old partition type in this 8.2 version.
            I removed all disks except the boot disk which only contains the XCP-NG system. Still the same error.
            The partition structure of the disk is as follows:

            Model: ATA TS512GSSD720 (scsi)
            Disk /dev/sda: 512GB
            Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
            Partition Table: gpt
            Disk Flags: pmbr_boot

            Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
            4 1049kB 538MB 537MB bios_grub, legacy_boot
            1 538MB 4295MB 3757MB ext3
            2 4296MB 8590MB 4294MB ext3
            3 8591MB 512GB 504GB lvm

            Does anyone have an idea what's going wrong.

            I don't want to do a fresh installation because then I have to restore a lot of data. It's my test machine and I have a backup, but with 29 TB it takes days to restore and without data there is little point in testing 8.3.

            regards Joerg

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

              Hi,

              Can you give the output of lsblk, it's more readable to me πŸ™‚

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              • jhansenJ Offline
                jhansen @olivierlambert
                last edited by olivierlambert

                @olivierlambert
                Does this help?

                sda                                                                                                 8:0    0   477G  0 disk
                β”œβ”€sda4                                                                                              8:4    0   512M  0 part
                β”œβ”€sda2                                                                                              8:2    0     4G  0 part
                β”œβ”€sda3                                                                                              8:3    0   469G  0 part
                β”‚ └─XSLocalEXT--d7a8bce5--29b3--5d83--f41f--5307f2e1b1bb-d7a8bce5--29b3--5d83--f41f--5307f2e1b1bb 253:0    0 468.9G  0 lvm   /run/sr-mount/d7a8bce5-29b3-5d83-f41f-5307f2e1b1bb
                └─sda1
                
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                • olivierlambertO Offline
                  olivierlambert Vates πŸͺ Co-Founder CEO
                  last edited by olivierlambert

                  πŸ€” This is the old partition scheme πŸ€”

                  It can't be a fresh install, it's not possible.

                  edit: ah wait. Can you do a mount command?

                  edit 2: a basic lsblk should display where the partition is mounted, did you copy/pasted everything?

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                  • jhansenJ Offline
                    jhansen @olivierlambert
                    last edited by

                    @olivierlambert
                    Thanks for help by the way 😊

                    I'am shure that it is a new installation from 3 month ago, it is a new Server and I bought it 3 month ago.

                    regards Joerg

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                    • jhansenJ Offline
                      jhansen @olivierlambert
                      last edited by

                      @olivierlambert
                      Sorry I miss one line:
                      └─sda1 8:1 0 3.5G 0 part /

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

                        You should have 2x 18G partitions (/ and a backup one), 1x 4G partition (/var/log) and a 512MB partition (/boot)

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                        • jhansenJ Offline
                          jhansen @olivierlambert
                          last edited by

                          @olivierlambert
                          My
                          Boot has 537MB
                          / has 3757MB
                          Backup 4294MB

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

                            Okay so this is the old partition scheme. Can you repeat exactly what did you do with this machine? I mean initially. I don't know how to even get the old partition scheme in the first place with XCP-ng (there's 0 edition of XCP-ng with this old partition scheme, it's only before XenServer 6.5)

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                            • jhansenJ Offline
                              jhansen @olivierlambert
                              last edited by

                              @olivierlambert
                              I disable all hard drives and put in a new sda and do a fresh installation.
                              So I can always go back if something doesn't work out.
                              In any case, thanks for the help.
                              Regards Joerg

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

                                That's really weird, I don't understand how it's possible to install a fresh XCP-ng (without doing any upgrade) with the old partition layout πŸ€”

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                                • jhansenJ Offline
                                  jhansen @olivierlambert
                                  last edited by

                                  @olivierlambert
                                  Neither do I.
                                  I thought I might have taken an old SSD, but that wasn't the case, the part was new.
                                  Well, sometimes you lose and sometimes the others win.
                                  Fresh installation 😧
                                  But thanks anyway

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

                                    Adding @yann in the conversation, so we need to check if it's even possible the old layout could be created in the installer code.

                                    Did you use the regular installation or something else? (answer file, automated install etc.)

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                                    • tjkreidlT Offline
                                      tjkreidl Ambassador @jhansen
                                      last edited by tjkreidl

                                      @jhansen I'd suggest booting off some Linux rescue disk and just redoing all the partitions manually. I ran into an upgrade issue once on a Dell box because of some stupid little extra utility partition they had in there. See: http://xenserver.pl/author/tobias-kreidl
                                      Look for "The (In)famous Dell Utility Partition."

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                                      • jhansenJ Offline
                                        jhansen @olivierlambert
                                        last edited by

                                        @olivierlambert
                                        Unfortunately, I only keep the latest version of the iso files. I have the xcp-ng-8.2.1.iso here and I think that was it, but it could also have been the previous version.

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                                        • tjkreidlT Offline
                                          tjkreidl Ambassador @jhansen
                                          last edited by

                                          @jhansen Any old Linux distribution recovery-like boot disk should work, as long as you can get to the partitioning app.

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                                          • jhansenJ Offline
                                            jhansen @tjkreidl
                                            last edited by

                                            @tjkreidl
                                            Mayby you are on the right trace.
                                            It is a Dell Server.
                                            This time i will wipe the disk before installation.
                                            As the Data is on other disk i will try to mount then afterwards.
                                            Thanks

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