XCP-ng 8.3 updates announcements and testing

[stormi]

@acebmxer Can you evaluate the amount of data transferred at each spike? So that we can evaluate if it's more than expected. What's the total size of the VM disks?

[acebmxer]

@stormi

Left side of chart is all VMS running. 1.5gb/s each vm's vdi ranges from 128gb - 256gb allocated. Actual disk spaced used not sure)

The 200mb/s - 300mb/s on far right is just XO-CE running idle.

So if each vm is consuming 300mb/s ish times 4 -5 vms would get close to the 1.5gb/s.

[stormi]

Thanks. Ping @Team-Storage

[acebmxer]

@stormi said:

Thanks. Ping @Team-Storage

I think these screenshot better show the picture. It shows more or seems more dramatic on truenas.
That is two cloud inti vms 1 ubuntu and 1 alma, And 1 existing vm running on the qcow2 enabled SR.

Both SR are on the same truenas just different data sets.

[ravenet]

One thing I noticed was manually copying a qcow2 disk to an sr, with a properly generated UUID, would lock up the sr from scanning disks and updating its inventory db.
Running VMs seemed fine.

Deleting that manually copied disk from sr released the lock.

Rodney

[stormi]

We just published most of the updates tested above, plus embargoed security fixes:

https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2026/04/28/april-2026-security-and-maintenance-updates-for-xcp-ng-8-3-lts/

The release of the QCOW2 image format feature (packages sm, sm-fairlock and blktap) is planned in the coming days. You can still update a system which has these test packages with the security updates published today.

Thanks everyone for the tests!

[manilx]

@stormi Updated 2 pools @office but on both RPU failed after updating master and emptying secondary host. Had to install patches manually and then move VM's back......

[acebmxer]

@stormi

Well I just ran rolling pool update on my 2 host home lab. I wanted to watch to make sure there were no issues. Of coarse I got distracted. Only to come back and find both host updated and running. Will continue to monitor.

[flakpyro]

Updates deployed, no issues so far.

[stormi]

@manilx said:

@stormi Updated 2 pools @office but on both RPU failed after updating master and emptying secondary host. Had to install patches manually and then move VM's back......

Have you kept the logs?

[manilx]

@stormi Did not check logs but if you tell me what to look for I can.
In config-logs on XOA there is nothing relevant.

[MajorP93]

I updated both my test and production XCP-ng environments.

No issues during updates on all 6 hosts.

[manilx]

@MajorP93 Pls note that the updates had no issues. Just the RPU did not complete. 2 different things.....