XCP-ng 8.3 updates announcements and testing

AlexanderK

@stormi said in XCP-ng 8.3 updates announcements and testing:

Indeed, we forgot to tell you about this temporary regression. They're coming back in the next batch of updates, as soon as CI is green!

what is CI ?

gduperrey

@AlexanderK CI/QA is our testing and integration environment. We run a number of tests to validate that XCP-ng works properly with these new versions, before making them available to our testers in the testing repository.

abudef

@Greg_E Please try restarting the toolstack once more.

Greg_E

@abudef

Restarting the tool stack fixed it. Thanks!

bogikornel

@dthenot After the upgrade, it is not possible to create a new machine from a template if the VPS disk is not on the SR where the template disk is.

P.S.: Unfortunately, moving the disk from one SR to another does not work. After moving the disk it becomes corrupt, and after reset it will not boot.

HenrikSchmidt

Is there a nightly built iso that I could test?
my problem is that I have no network interface realtek 8125 that functions in 8.2 or 8.3.
I would love to check if there has been any changes made that are coming that would solve this.
the driver for r8125 in xcp-ng is 9.012, latest downloadable is 9.015 at realtek but I do not know how to get it compiled and installed.

gduperrey

@HenrikSchmidt We don't currently offer regular ISO builds. The most recent ISOs are available.

The driver you're talking about is integrated into the kernel, and to my knowledge, there are no updates for it at the moment. @Andrew is currently working on an alternate driver package, but the PR seems to be waiting for his response.

This type of driver can be loaded at the beginning of the installation with an ISO by pressing F9 when the menu prompts. You can then load an additional driver for the installation, and install it on the future system later in the procedure when prompted.

As this is not an issue with the latest updates, I suggest you create a dedicated thread. This would give you better visibility and help from the community on this issue.

HenrikSchmidt

@gduperrey
Ok, I havea thread about my problem but it has not gotten any solutions so far.
The realtek is distributed as source files, not a package so I cant just add it in without knowing how to make a package. I was just hoping that the 8125 package in the distibution might have been updated later then the official distros.

Thanks anyway.

XCP-ng-JustGreat

Latest test updates applied to 3-host Dell OptiPlex 7040 SFF (i7-6700) pool. Upgrade went smoothly and everything appears to be working normally. I did notice the flatlined stats issue mentioned previously, but the xe-toolstack-restart seemed to bring those back to life. Thanks @Greg_E and @abudef for catching and addressing that.

abudef

@XCP-ng-JustGreat Until this is fixed, you need to restart the toolstack after each host restart, which is not often done, so it's not really a problem.