New Rust Xen guest tools

ajpri1998

Out of curiosity, are there any plans to port the new Tools to Windows? I understand that the architecture is different on the Windows side, but do really enjoy the effort so far.

olivierlambert

Yes, this is something we'd like to achieve. There's some Rust lib able to deal with WMI, so we should be able to achieve it. The real deal is not the mgmt agent, but PV drivers. On that topic, we also have someone working 100% on this. So expect more news for Windows coming

yann

@ajpri1998 We have a tracking issue set up for progress on that front.

ravenet

I've done initial testing on Suse SLES/OpenSuse 15.4, 15.5 and the similar opensuse MicroOS 5.5

Installs, runs, reports correct information and stats so far. Basic commands work as expected.

olivierlambert

New release with even a Debian repo: https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2023/12/15/rust-guest-tools-0-3-0/

Andrew

@olivierlambert

New version link: https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2023/12/15/rust-guest-tools-0-3-0/

olivierlambert

Thanks, missed copy/paste Fixed!

yann

People with FreeBSD 13.2 or later as a guest are also now able to use Netlink to get their IP address changes reported instantly (rather than having to wait for as much as 1 minute).

This is however not yet part of our CI jobs, as we rely on cross-rs, which for now only provides FreeBSD 12 cross-build support. Your choices to try it:

Don't forget to kldload netlink first, the Netlink support is not active by default!

Tristis Oris

i try to update tools, succeed only on ubuntu22.
ubuntu20 fail on apt update:


Ign:13 https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/xen-project%2Fxen-guest-agent/packages/generic/deb-amd64 release/ Translation-en
Err:11 https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/xen-project%2Fxen-guest-agent/packages/generic/deb-amd64 release/ Packages
  401  Unauthorized [IP: 172.65.251.78 443]
Ign:12 https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/xen-project%2Fxen-guest-agent/packages/generic/deb-amd64 release/ Translation-en_US
Ign:13 https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/xen-project%2Fxen-guest-agent/packages/generic/deb-amd64 release/ Translation-en
Reading package lists... Done
E: Failed to fetch https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/xen-project%2Fxen-guest-agent/packages/generic/deb-amd64/release/Packages  401  Unauthorized [IP: 172.65.251.78 443]
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

ubuntu 20 = debian 11. Are the tools compatible?

At blog you forgot the name of tools to install https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2023/12/15/rust-guest-tools-0-3-0/

olivierlambert

Fixed the blog post. Don't know for Ubuntu, only tested on Debian on my side (even Debian 11). It seems you have a 401 HTTP code on your side. Gitlab issue or network issue?

Tristis Oris

@olivierlambert looks like network issue, but same task at same host\network etc updated all ubuntu 22 VMs.

olivierlambert

Yeah, I would say Gitlab access issue, for whatever reason Wait a bit a retry later. We'll probably mirror it to provide a more available solution that Gitlab.

Tristis Oris

@olivierlambert i add this repo to our local nexus proxy, got same error with any distrib. Well, let's wait.

olivierlambert

Here I have a good HTTP answer (200):

curl -I https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/xen-project%2Fxen-guest-agent/packages/generic/deb-amd64/release/Packages

Tristis Oris

@olivierlambert same, 200. Probably it again cloudflare issues.

ajpri1998

Tried install on a fresh Ubuntu 22.04 VM. Worked PERFECTLY with apt.

chrisfonte

If installing on a machine that already had the old guest tools, is it necessary to uninstall them first (I would imagine so). How do you uninstall old guest tools?

Tristis Oris

@chrisfonte new tools will remove the old one during install.

chrisfonte

Worked well for me with apt on virtualized Pop!_OS.

olivierlambert

Thanks for your feedback @chrisfonte !