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It worked just fine for me during an overnight unattended backup. I also did a manual backup to watch things.
Couple questions:
@wtdrisco
AFAIK, that's how Windows works. When you choose to install the guest utils it slightly changes how the hypervisor presents itself so guest utils can be installed automatically by Windows.
Linux doesn't support that, unfortunately. Or would need changes at the distribution level. There are automation options such as cloud-init, although that's above my knowledge
Can you check the date and time on both the computer and the machine you have XO installed on?
Hello! I’d suggest checking and/or redownloading the iso image. It sounds like it didn’t download right, or upload right.
https://xcp-ng.org/docs/releases.html#all-releases
Latest LTS: XCP-ng 8.2
Using the Long Term Support version is relevant if:
you want to be sure the system will stay stable
you want to **have all security fixes** without doing major upgrades every year
you want a predictable migration path on a longer timeframe
you don't care about new features coming for the next years
LTS releases are supported for 5 years.
XCP-ng 8.2 still has about a year and 3 months left of support.
Seems pretty good!
I would dedicate one node for shared storage. Have it run TrueNAS or something. By separating the compute and storage, you can have fast migrations.
For networking, it all depends on workload. Although for many use cases, 10G is fine.
@XCP-ng-JustGreat
We ended up doing the Registry bypass. After that was done it worked great!
We also tried things on our ESXi cluster, but due to licensing, couldn't do the vTPM. Also made sure to mention to my IT Manager about Olivier's 20-minute response to my forum post. 
Very much appreciated - hopefully I can get us to switch over.
@olivierlambert
Pretty much we have been upgrading old computers. The old Optiplexes we can do whatever we wanted. We decided to set up a lab environment to be able to test things. I of course being a XCP-ng enthusiast decided the lab should include XCP-ng.
One of the first things we are labbing out is preparing for a Windows 11 upgrade. Of our production fleet. Doing in in-place upgrade.
Windows 11 requires an 8th gen or newer processor and will fail if that condition isn't met. There are ways to bypass that check (a registry tweak), but I'm not really wanting to use it for the test.
@andyhhp
I figured... But worth a shot
At work we are starting to evaluate XCP-ng as a replacement for ESXI.
As part of this we are also doing a Windows 11 upgrade test on there. Unfortunately, our test device is an old Optiplex with an i5-6500.
I am using XCP-ng 8.3 Beta 2, the vTPM is working great, however the CPU is being reported (correctly) as a i5-6500. Is there any way to change the CPU to identify as a supported processor? I read some ways to do it with a xl.conf file, but not sure of the syntax. I believe something with the CPUID?
Yes, I know that there are some Bypasses for this to work correctly within Windows. But we want this to be as equal to production as possible. Even though the production machines are fully and correctly supported.
XCP-ng pretty much works on a good chunk of hardware.
I've noticed Windows is a very disk-intensive OS. One tool that helps me look at where these writes are happening is SysInternals Process Monitor. It can show File System usage in real-time.
@Virtual
On the VM's general page, click the plus, then the plus again.
@planedrop This is an added control plane.
It could be used for a few reasons:
I see I'm running commit "0d127" of XO Lite, from December 28th. Is there a faster "channel" I can get on, to test some of the latest commits?
Also I like how on XO you can click on the commit # to be taken to the github page for it, can that be added to xo lite?
@CJ said in New Rust Xen guest tools:
@ajpri1998 Is it Ubuntu based or Debian? I've been debating switching to Debian from Ubuntu but I've also considered Pop.
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Based on Ubuntu, which Ubuntu is based on Debian. Pop is great. It's pretty much ubuntu + faster updating Kernel + a few added features. It's still very close to Ubuntu, although they are working at separating it more with their own DE.
I installed a Pop OS desktop. I noticed that the icon is missing. XOCE 8e65e. Management agent 1.0.0-proto-0.3.0 Installed using the apt repo.
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I remember reading somewhere that the icon system was going to be overhauled. I can't remember where exactly it was part of. In this instance, I feel the Ubuntu icon is perfectly acceptable, as this is an Ubuntu-based OS.
@lawrencesystems said in Backup Design and or Feature for Managed IT Services:
or if each client should have their own XOA instance.
personally I believe every client should have their own XOA. Although that's more of a matter of opinion/business design.
@lawrencesystems said in Backup Design and or Feature for Managed IT Services:
Have one XOA instance that we host in our infrastructure
Going on this... maybe have a "XOA for MSPs". Instead of connecting to "pools", it can connect to XOAs. A way to view the backup statuses, XOA updates. Also as new MSP techs come on, they can be granted access to clients that may have multiple pools
That's quite amazing. I hear them talk about in-office about using Proxmox for VMs, but NEVER about XCP-ng/XO.
@olivierlambert said in Run a script inside guest OS from host:
There's no mechanism in the Windows world to do things like you can do in Linux?
You can enable an ssh server in Windows Desktop and Server. It works just like Linux.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/openssh/openssh_install_firstuse?tabs=gui
