XCP-ng 8.3 betas and RCs feedback 🚀

Andrew

@stormi New update version edk2-20220801-1.7.3.xcpng8.3.x86_64 fixed my FreeBSD UEFI boot problem (stuck on boot countdown). XCP reboot NOT required after install. Windows 10 and Ubuntu boot correctly also (but did before too). I did not test secure boot or bitlocker.

olivierlambert

Great news

matt-plan8

Hey gents,

Has anyone else noticed that if you have a Win 11 guest (pro or enterprise) with the vtpm, that's Entra (Azure) joined, that when migrating to a diff host it breaks the Azure AD membership?

I'll try to dig up some more specifics and run a more thorough test, but I've run into it twice now on a VM I've been running on my test lab with 8.3 beta. Relatively simple solution, leave Azure domain, rejoin, but I suspect that that the token gets saved in vtpm and is either lost or invalidated by migrating hosts.

olivierlambert

That's a good question Are you migrating in the same pool or to a different pool?

matt-plan8

@olivierlambert

Same pool, I have 3 minisforum pc's I've been messing around with to learn XCP-NG, they aren't in a cluster because I got lazy after installation, but are connected via truenas iscsi as central iscsi storage.

Loving the system overall, I could never go back to hyper-v...

I was patching manually by moving machines and then using the gui single host patch button. I had an issue with rolling patches, and didn't really want to bug you guys over it, it's likely user error. Setup is installed from sources.

stormi

@matt-plan8 I don't understand. Pool and cluster are the same thing. Pool for XCP-ng is what VMWare calls cluster.

matt-plan8

@stormi sorry I consider HA a cluster, pool I consider just a group of machines in the same management domain.

They are in a single pool, they aren't HA

archw

@stormi said in XCP-ng 8.3 beta :

yum downgrade edk2-20180522git4b8552d-1.5.1.xcpng8.3

It didn't work. It just sits there with the attached screen.

stormi

@archw You're quoting the downgrade command. May I assume you tried yum update edk2 --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing,xcp-ng-ci instead and got version edk2-20220801-1.7.3.xcpng8.3.x86_64?

archw

@stormi
Sorry...I cliked reply to teh wrong post.

Yes, I ran "yum update edk2 --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing,xcp-ng-cii" and let it install. I then rebooted the VM (several of them) and tried to start them and none worked. I then ran "yum downgrade edk2-20180522git4b8552d-1.5.1.xcpng8.3" and the VM's fired right up.

stormi

I just published new updates for XCP-ng 8.3:

edk2-20220801-1.7.3.xcpng8.3, which some of you already tested. It fixes UEFI pfSense booting.
e2fsprogs-1.47.0-1.1.xcpng8.3 (and subpackages): brought to the same level as latest XCP-ng 8.2.1. If you installed using the latest test installation ISO, you already have it.
r8125-module-9.012.04-1.xcpng8.3 which updates the r8125 driver.

gskger

@stormi While I can not test the changes, the update went well. However, the restart took a few minutes longer than expected (or I was impatient again).

wilsonqanda

@stormi Nice thanks so I can run the complete update on XOA and not worry about having to remove that single edk2 anymore that wasn't working. Will do that later

stormi

So, @ThierryEscande found the issue which made all UEFI VMs crash on @archw's server and patched it.

This was the last issue before we could publish XCP-ng 8.3 Beta 2, so this is good news.

Now, we need you all to test the patched RPM and check your UEFI VMs still work well with it: start, function normally...

To install it:

yum update edk2-20220801-1.7.3.1.xcpng8.3 --enablerepo=xcp-ng-ci

No need to reboot, but UEFI VMs need to be restarted afterwards (when doable. If you have a specfic VM that you can't reboot yet, it's OK to leave it alone).

In case things do not work as expected, you can come back to the previous build with :

yum downgrade edk2

Andrew

@stormi The new version still works for me (linux/freebsd).

bufanda

@stormi Tested the new edk package at looks good to me. was able to reboot linux and freebsd VMs without a hitch with UEFI boot mode.

stormi

Thanks to both of you. I moved the fixed edk2 package to repo xcp-ng-base, so all testers will get it next time they update.

archw

@stormi
Fantastic and way to go...thanks for all your hard work!

olivierlambert

Also thanks to you @archw for your feedback, that's how we like to work

stormi

Everyone: we are about to release XCP-ng 8.3 Beta 2!

It was delayed by one month due to the UEFI issues discussed above, now fixed.

The last thing we need is your feedback on the updated installation ISO: https://updates.xcp-ng.org/tmp/xcp-ng-8.3.0-beta2-test4.iso

I hope I have more success than with the test2 ISO for which I don't remember getting any feedback

[Update: link updated to the test4 ISO. Don't upgrade an existing XCP-ng 8.3 alpha or beta with this: just update with XO or yum instead]