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    VM's from ESXi, live migration not possible

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

      Okay so the Xen PV driver for storage isn't working correctly in the problematic VM, so the storage can't be suspended to do a live migration. That's causing your issue 🙂

      I don't know why the device isn't working correctly (maybe try to reinstall the tools?), but as soon it does, live migrate should work.

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        OhSoNoob @olivierlambert
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        @olivierlambert The problem with fully installing the tools is our antivirus solution SentinelOne. Simply pausing the agent + reboot gave the XenTools the possibility to install succesfully. After a succesfull installation, enabling the SentinelOne agent again is possible without any other issues regarding the tools or drivers.

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          olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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          Oh great news then!!! 🍾

          So now you can live migrate and such, right?

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            OhSoNoob @olivierlambert
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            @olivierlambert Yes! Live migration is now available and working. Which is great!

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              olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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              Excellent news! Thank you very much for the feedback, it might be helpful for others 👍

              Enjoy XCP-ng and XO!

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                glatour @OhSoNoob
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                @OhSoNoob said in VM's from ESXi, live migration not possible:

                @olivierlambert The problem with fully installing the tools is our antivirus solution SentinelOne. Simply pausing the agent + reboot gave the XenTools the possibility to install succesfully. After a succesfull installation, enabling the SentinelOne agent again is possible without any other issues regarding the tools or drivers.

                Thank you for that find, I was in the same boat.

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                • olivierlambertO Offline
                  olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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                  Oh wow, I couldn't think it would have been helpful that fast!! I think I might update our documentation page about Windows tools and this issue.

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                    olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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                    Done: https://docs.xcp-ng.org/troubleshooting/windows-pv-tools/#not-all-pv-drivers-are-correctly-installed

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                      glatour @olivierlambert
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                      @olivierlambert said in VM's from ESXi, live migration not possible:

                      Oh wow, I couldn't think it would have been helpful that fast!! I think I might update our documentation page about Windows tools and this issue.

                      Yes, take a look at ticket #7723929. There is also something about shrinking a Windows partition using Linux tools and avoid data loss that could be added to the doc.

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                        glatour @olivierlambert
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                        @olivierlambert said in VM's from ESXi, live migration not possible:

                        Done: https://docs.xcp-ng.org/troubleshooting/windows-pv-tools/#not-all-pv-drivers-are-correctly-installed

                        wow that was fast, thank you!

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                        • olivierlambertO Offline
                          olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO @glatour
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                          @glatour Where would you add this in our doc? (the shrink tip)

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                            glatour @olivierlambert
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                            @olivierlambert said in VM's from ESXi, live migration not possible:

                            @glatour Where would you add this in our doc? (the shrink tip)

                            There: https://docs.xcp-ng.org/guides/shrink_virtual_drive/ under the Windows VMs part.

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                              olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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                              On it!

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                                olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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                                Done: https://docs.xcp-ng.org/guides/shrink_virtual_drive/#pre-requisites

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