EOL: XCP-ng Center has come to an end (New Maintainer!)

Seneken

Hello everyone,

So, XCP-ng Center will no longer be updated, right? Because I upgraded to version 8.3 and can no longer use XCP-ng Center to manage the servers.

Is there any way I can manage the XCP-ng 8.3 servers, or do I have to revert to XCP-ng 8.2?
Sorry, I have searched through all the topics but still can't solve my problem.

Thank so much.

petr.bena

@Seneken that build I shared here works with latest XCP-ng, current maintainer on github just didn't make a release for latest codebase, but master branch in github works with latest version just fine

gskger

@Seneken Have you considered using Xen Orchestra (XO) instead of XCP-ng Center? XO is the recommended solution to manage Xenserver or XCP-ng hosts and pools. The Xen Orchestra from Source comes with all the bells and whistles for a homelab, while the Xen Orchestra Appliance (XOA) is intended for enterprise scenarios with support. But you most likely already know that and are just interested in a windows client

Seneken

@petr-bena Hi, I found your build from this link. I wil try it now and report to you later.

Thank much

@gskger
Yup, I know about Xen Orchestra (XO) and XOA. Maybe I will use it temporarily while waiting for the next version of XCP-ng Center to fully support 8.3. Of course, I still need XCP-ng Center for my colleagues who are not very familiar with the system. They have been given basic training on how to use XCP-ng Center to monitor and support the VMs when needed.
Sincerely thank you for your sharing and suggestions.

cowboy

@errellion Have you ever considered or looked into using a USB over Ethernet utility like VirtualHere or one of the other alternatives as a work around?

In a nutshell, you could deploy something like a RPI2 or RPI3 and run VirtualHere on it & plug your dongles into that and have your VM's connect to it with a USB over Ethernet client. Then you wouldn't have issues with snapshots or migrations between hosts.

I use this for Wave, Software Defined Radio & ADSB dongles and USB printer - just forward the raw USB connections over Ethernet to my VM's and it's worked great for me for years.

Just spitballing the idea if it helps you.

Seneken

@petr-bena said in EOL: XCP-ng Center has come to an end (New Maintainer!):

@Seneken that build I shared here works with latest XCP-ng, current maintainer on github just didn't make a release for latest codebase, but master branch in github works with latest version just fine

Hi Petr-bena, your build work for me. Thank you so much

O_V_K

Hello everyone!

Is there a version of XCP-ng center that can work with XenServer 8 and with XCP-ng 8.2 simultaneously?

Thank you!

petr.bena

@O_V_K Does that version I posted not work?

petr.bena

@olivierlambert BTW due to inactivity of "new maintainer" I think I could probably volunteer to become another co-maintainer, but can't promise to be overly active either.

O_V_K

@petr-bena said in EOL: XCP-ng Center has come to an end (New Maintainer!):

@O_V_K Does that version I posted not work?

No Tested with latest XenServer 8

Thank you!

O_V_K

Latest XenCenter 2024.3.0 does not work with XCP-ng 8.2

AbyssMoon

@petr-bena Greetings. Your build has stopped working with the latest xcp-ng 8.3 patches. Is there any solution?

laurentm

@AbyssMoon
My release vNext 24158 still works with XCP-NG 8.3 Final but I cannot use it anymore for Live Migration and Cold Migration due to a cert error between servers.
It was working with XCP-NG 8.3 RC2.

petr.bena

@AbyssMoon it works just fine to me

can you provide some details?

AbyssMoon

@petr-bena Have you installed the latest patch via yum update?

[epyc-genoa1 ~]# rpm -qa | grep xapi
xapi-xe-24.19.2-1.4.xcpng8.3.x86_64
xapi-rrd2csv-24.19.2-1.4.xcpng8.3.x86_64
python2-xapi-storage-24.19.2-1.4.xcpng8.3.x86_64
xapi-storage-script-24.19.2-1.4.xcpng8.3.x86_64
xapi-nbd-24.19.2-1.4.xcpng8.3.x86_64
xapi-core-24.19.2-1.4.xcpng8.3.x86_64
xapi-tests-24.19.2-1.4.xcpng8.3.x86_64
xcp-ng-xapi-plugins-1.10.1-1.xcpng8.3.noarch

XO is working properly.

petr.bena

@AbyssMoon yes I did, but you clearly use different version of XCP-ng admin, not my build. Compare build numbers.

AbyssMoon

@petr-bena thank you, I see that the build is different, I downloaded my version from your resource:
https://cloud.bena.rocks/s/kEWmsmg8ABtQJZe
please tell me, where can I get a newer build?

petr.bena

@AbyssMoon

I just downloaded it myself from same link and tried, look on the screenshot, versions are matching, it works to me. I think you must have some different problem, maybe firewall?

AbyssMoon

@petr-bena it's definitely not a firewall, XO is working. Maybe the problem is in windows 2008 server r2, I run xencenter on it. Perhaps it does not support any new encryption protocols, this is an assumption.

petr.bena

@AbyssMoon I run it on Windows 10, but I think it's weird it worker before and now it doesn't. Do you have any other newer Windows available to try it on?