@jcampos Good morning! It's actually really easy, all I did was put the xcp-ng ISO onto a USB, rebooted the server and booted from the USB. From there, it's just a case of selecting the option to upgrade XenServer 7.2 to XCP-ng 8.2. It really is that simple, probably more simple than anybody would imagine. There is XCP-ng documentation on the process as well - https://xcp-ng.org/docs/upgrade.html#upgrade-from-xenserver.

I would always recommend doing backups though before doing any upgrades etc. but in all honesty, from my experience, it was a very simple, quick and hassle free process.

Cheers,
Richie

Hey,

I have successfully completed the upgrade process! It is good to once again, have a server that is actually up to date and where I have no fear of rebooting, the server had a run-time of 2+ years

Cheers,
Richie

Hello,

This is probably a really silly question and I apologise if this has been asked before. I currently have a standalone server running XenServer 7.1. I basically refused to update it due to the limitations that were enforced in later versions of XenServer, when not licenced. Would it be possible to directly upgrade XenServer 7.1, to XCP-ng 8.2.1? I seen in the documentation that you can upgrade same versions and above but not sure if you can actually jump directly from 7.X to 8.X?

Again, apologies if this has been asked before.

Cheers,
Richie

@jcampos Good morning! It's actually really easy, all I did was put the xcp-ng ISO onto a USB, rebooted the server and booted from the USB. From there, it's just a case of selecting the option to upgrade XenServer 7.2 to XCP-ng 8.2. It really is that simple, probably more simple than anybody would imagine. There is XCP-ng documentation on the process as well - https://xcp-ng.org/docs/upgrade.html#upgrade-from-xenserver.

I would always recommend doing backups though before doing any upgrades etc. but in all honesty, from my experience, it was a very simple, quick and hassle free process.

Cheers,
Richie

On this one VM yeah, all other VM's have been fine with the Citrix tools. I am not sure if the tools change anything on the VM level once installed, as the problem did continue after attaching a fresh blank virtual disk to the problem VM.

Hi @olivierlambert

That's perfect, thank you, I'll check that out!

In regards to the problematic VM, it only happened to this single VM. With a new fresh VM, with the virtual disk from the problematic VM, seems to be working. I just found it really strange as I created a new VM using the exact same settings, with the original virtual disk. The only thing I did yesterday to this VM was install Citrix' guest tools 9.3.1 (I have this installed on other VM's and they're working OK, although the other VM's are Windows Server 2019/2022). That's the only change that I had made.

Cheers,
Richie

Hi,

I am a new user of XCP-ng and so far, my experience has been great! I have been a long-time user of XenServer but stopped updating the hypervisor when Citrix crippled the free version. I randomly came across XCP-ng and I couldn’t believe my eyes, how I hadn’t come across this sooner!

My server is for personal use at home, with a few VM’s and host a website for free for a local youth charity. It is great to once again, have a hypervisor that is current and not a gigantic back-door!

Anyway, to the problem… today, I experienced a strange problem that I can’t seem to find a reason for and I ended up deleting the problematic VM before thinking of trying to capture some logs beforehand. I had a Windows 10 VM that the hypervisor was forcing a reboot of. When using it, the console would just go blank and then a few seconds later, the VM would turn back on and start booting back into Windows. This kept repeating, where it would only stay on for a minute or two?

I even tried attaching the virtual disk from the VM, to another VM and it didn’t power-cycle. I then created a new virtual disk on the problematic VM and every time I tried to boot it into the Windows ISO, it would force restart to the point I couldn’t even get it to boot from the ISO any more. I ended up deleting the VM, I know I should have tried to get the logs beforehand, but I just wondered if anybody may have an idea of what might have been the cause of this?

I am just a little paranoid that hardware is starting to fail, hopefully not.
One last thing, I have been trialling Xen Orchestra and it’s fantastic! Such an improvement from Citrix XenCenter. I was wondering if there is a licence option available for people who only use the product for personal use / hosting for charities?

I realise this is quite a lengthy post, apologies haha!

Cheers,
Richie

Hey,

I have successfully completed the upgrade process! It is good to once again, have a server that is actually up to date and where I have no fear of rebooting, the server had a run-time of 2+ years

Cheers,
Richie

Hey!

Thank you so much for getting back to me on this, that's honestly great! I can finally upgrade this thing and make it compliant... I hate to think how many vulnerabilities currently live on that thing!

Cheers,
Richie

Hello,

This is probably a really silly question and I apologise if this has been asked before. I currently have a standalone server running XenServer 7.1. I basically refused to update it due to the limitations that were enforced in later versions of XenServer, when not licenced. Would it be possible to directly upgrade XenServer 7.1, to XCP-ng 8.2.1? I seen in the documentation that you can upgrade same versions and above but not sure if you can actually jump directly from 7.X to 8.X?

Again, apologies if this has been asked before.

Cheers,
Richie