New Rust Xen guest tools
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@usuari While we're pretty happy with how they work with XCP-ng as @olivierlambert says, our goal is to have those tools more generally useful for the whole Xen ecosystem, and there will likely be changes related to this. For example, it might be that a configuration becomes necessary to get the more general version to behave like they do today - naturally we would provide such a file, but it could require the installation of an additional package when that is done. (disclaimer: this is the outcome I have in mind, which does not mean it is precisely what's going to happen )
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Hello,
Than you for your response!
Now we are considering to put the guest-tools in our repository (mirror) in order to get the templates automatically updated, but we couldn't find the right form to do it.
Currently we have a working and operational mirror, but when we put this:
deb [trusted=yes] https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/xen-project%252Fxen-guest-agent/packages/generic/deb-amd64/ release/
Fails because couldn't find indexes:
Processing indexes: [PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPapt-mirror: can't open index gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/xen-project%252Fxen-guest-agent/packages/generic/deb-amd64///release//Packages in process_index at /usr/bin/apt-mirror line 800. P]
We can use rsync or gitlab, but we need some indication of what we need to use.
Regards,
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@usuari said in New Rust Xen guest tools:
Now we are considering to put the guest-tools in our repository (mirror) in order to get the templates automatically updated, but we couldn't find the right form to do it.
Currently we have a working and operational mirror, but when we put this:
deb [trusted=yes] https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/xen-project%252Fxen-guest-agent/packages/generic/deb-amd64/ release/
Fails because couldn't find indexes:
Processing indexes: [PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPapt-mirror: can't open index gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/xen-project%252Fxen-guest-agent/packages/generic/deb-amd64///release//Packages in process_index at /usr/bin/apt-mirror line 800. P]
Please see current issue on the gitlab repository.
https://gitlab.com/xen-project/xen-guest-agent/-/issues/18 -
@Houbsi
not sure what indeed happenedI had messed up and used links to the CI run on commit instead of that of the tag. I had to update the links to point to new job ids. Thanks for the notice! -
@usuari what distro/release are you using?
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@yann Hello, our apt-mirror is installed on Debian 11, but the purpose is to install the guest-tools on VMs with, at least, Debian 12 OS. We want to allow each of these VMs to be able to download the package from our repository instead of having to add the line in the sources.list file of every machine.
This method gives us control if there's a future connection issue between both ends. We will have a copy of the package and won't interrupt our workflow.
Once it works well, we would move on to the other operating systems.
Thanks in advance,
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I have an ISO that I created myself with all the Drivers and tools that we would possibly need:
With the new Rust tools, can I stop using this ISO?
Any features I might miss?
I'm looking forward to having the new Windows tools.Thank you very much for this great work.
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Those tools are for Linux and BSD only at the moment.
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Hey do you have actual instructions on how to compile from source? I trying to work with someone creating an arch linux AUR package and was looking for a little more input.
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@kevdog do you have any specific issue not addressed by the build instructions in the README?
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Tools is working on Ubuntu 24 LTS.
Well it obvious, since nothing is really changed)