XCP-ng 8.3 updates announcements and testing

gskger

@gduperrey Update some Dell R720s with GPUs and a Dell R730. Update worked without any problem and VMs operate as expected. Will update this post if that changes during day-to-day operation. Great work!

gduperrey

New update candidates for you to test!

In addition to the previous updates, available for testing, here are some new, non-urgent ones, expected to be released in a few days. Below are the details about these.

blktap: Add an option to use backup footer when vhd-util query is called. This will be used in a future storage driver.
intel-igc: Update to version 5.10.226.
xcp-ng-deps: Added vim-minimal as a dependency, so it is always present on XCP-ng systems.

For XOSTOR users:

drbd: Prevent a dead-lock in some situations, plus other improvements

(Reminder: XOSTOR is still in beta stage on XCP-ng 8.3)

Test on XCP-ng 8.3

From an up-to-date host:

yum clean metadata --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing
yum update --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing
reboot

The usual update rules apply: pool coordinator first, etc.

Versions

blktap: 3.54.9-1.2.xcpng8.3
intel-igc: 5.10.226-1.xcpng8.3
kmod-drbd: 9.2.11-1.1.xcpng8.3
xcp-ng-deps: 8.3-13

What to test

Normal use and anything else you want to test. The closer to your actual use of XCP-ng, the better.

Test window before official release of the updates

~ 2 days

flakpyro

@gduperrey Installed on the same 2 hosts as the last batch of test updates released in December.

No issues to report so far, ran a backup job after after without issue.

olivierlambert

Works for me!

gskger

@gduperrey Installed on some R720s with GPUs and everything works as expected. Looks good

Edit: also installed the update on my playlab hosts and a Dell PowerEdge R730. Again no issues and all hosts and VMs are up again.

Clouseau

Upgraded to testing as I had problem with coalesce on 8.3 and VDI of 330GB. Smaller one coalesced fine (50Gb and 100GB) but on 330G it run for 12sec and said something about timeout error. With testing packages coalesce is working fine.

Andrew

@gduperrey Updates installed and running but I don't have 8.3 in production yet...

ph7

Tested OK on
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4710MQ CPU @ 2.50GHz

gduperrey

Update published: https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2025/01/23/january-2025-maintenance-update-for-xcp-ng-8-3/

Thank you for the tests!

manilx

@gduperrey On my 2 hosts on the pool I did a yum update on the slave first. Idiot!
It updated and rebooted. Now wanted to do the same on the master. Doesn't show any updates!

How do I install the updates on the master now?

gduperrey

@manilx Have you tried cleaning the yum cache on the master?

yum clean metadata

manilx

@gduperrey YES! Now the updates show. Updating.....

manilx

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