XCP-ng 8.3 updates announcements and testing

Greg_E

Off topic, how does XCP handle the E and P cores in that 13900 machine? That was one of the considerations that made me skip these Intel processors in favor of AMD.

I'll get mine updated as soon as possible, on going work to clean out my tech room so it can get cut in half for class space. Goodbye future expansion if we need it!

Andrew

@stormi Minor issue: e1000e does not show driver version with ethtool:

# ethtool -i eth0
driver: e1000e
version:
firmware-version: 0.1-4
expansion-rom-version:
bus-info: 0000:00:1f.6
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: yes
supports-eeprom-access: yes
supports-register-dump: yes
supports-priv-flags: yes

flakpyro

@Greg_E It seems to handle it fine, i have 2 of these systems running without issue with 8.3!

stormi

@flakpyro No, I'm waiting for more feedback from the devs. All I have from them for now is it looks like either a firmware or a passthrough issue. I don't think we have changed anything to fix it.

stormi

@Andrew Thanks for noticing that. CC @ThierryEscande

Andrew

@stormi @ThierryEscande I issued a PR for intel-e1000e to add the version for ethtool.

ph7

@stormi
My old i7 with e1000e is working fine (except the version not shoving)

olivierlambert

@Greg_E It works but it's not designed to work. I'm personally use a system like this at home (Protectli) and no issues so far after a rather intensive use.

stormi

@Andrew What does a regular linux distro output as a version for the driver? I've been told there's no version in the source code, so does it output anything?

blankOutreach

@stormi It shows the kernel version, exactly what uname -r would.

Andrew

@stormi From Debian 11:

# ethtool -i enp0s25
driver: e1000e
version: 5.10.0-34-amd64
firmware-version: 0.2-4
expansion-rom-version:
bus-info: 0000:00:19.0
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: yes
supports-eeprom-access: yes
supports-register-dump: yes
supports-priv-flags: yes

bufanda

Updated my Lab pool consisting of 2 Nodes this morning
Rebooted master first, then slave. No issues VMs migrated between reboots.
Couldn't see any issue til now.

olivierlambert

Updates done on 1x Intel and 1x AMD host, rebooted, no visible issues.