@olivierlambert

I managed to get line of sight between the two hosts and when I enter my VMWare credentials I can see all the VMs and select one to import, but when I go to import I get the error:

no opaque ref found in  undefined

in XO

@coolsport00

Yes to both.

@coolsport00

Same error when importing to XO.

No description available.

@coolsport00

Trying to get it as an OVA using the OVF tool directly out of VCenter. I will see how it goes. Downloading the OVA now.

@dfrizon
In Xen Orchestra it is looking for an OVA and doesn't take an OVF.

My process so far was:

• export template inside VCenter (OVF and Disk image)
• Convert OVF+Disk to OVA with OVF Tool
• Import OVA to XO.

Switching out step two to an import and export in VirtualBox worked, but obviously not our preferred option.

@dfrizon
Did you just rerun the VMWareOVF tool and re-create the OVA? Did you need to modify the command at all?

I'm just running

OVFTool "Source.ovf" "Destination.ova"

Is there any option that needs to be added to the command or did the first run just not work properly?

@olivierlambert
Sent in chat.

@olivierlambert

Unfortunately we aren't on a paid plan (though that is definitely in our future plans). I was able to sort out the CD drive so I should be good to move forward with our migration even if we have to have virtual box as a middleman. It's only a handful of VMs anyway so this shouldn't be a big lift.

Thanks!

@olivierlambert

Hi Oliver, thanks for your reply.

I can't go the V2V route as our XenOrchestra doesn't have line of sight on our VMWare instance so the move needs to be offline.

Where would I look for the description in the OVF file? I'm not sure where it's supposed to be so I can't see where it would be missing.

I was able to bring the OVF into VirtualBox and export an OVA from there and that landed in XO / XCP without issue, but the VM keeps coming up as not having a completely installed.

Hi Everyone,

We are in the process of moving some VMs from VMWare to XCP-ng. I've downloaded a test VM from our VMWare instance, used the OVF tool to convert it to OVA, but I'm getting the error "No Description Available" when trying to import. How would I go about fixing the OVA to be importable.

Thanks!

@olivierlambert

That's awesome.

Would they just show up in the detached backups list? Or is there another way to find them?

Disregard. I see that they still show up in the restore tab.

This is great!

@olivierlambert

Thanks for the quick reply.

That's assuming I have my xo-config correct? Or will a clean install that sees the remote know what to do?

Hi Everyone,

We are using Delta Backups for our VMs to an NFS remote.

That remote is then pushed to a cold storage after the backups are complete.

Is there an easy way, that if XO is offline in a disaster situation and I'm pulling from that cold storage that I can identify which VHD belongs to which VM? They are all UUIDs, which I guess I can manually maintain a list to tie them together, but that seems cumbersome.

I bundled the cert and it is working as expected now.

Thanks!

I've installed an SSL certificate on our Xen Orchestra install and it works fine, but our system scanner is looking for the intermediate certificate (uses OpenSSL to check) and reports back that it is invalid without the intermediate certificate.

Browsers don't mind, but I would like to be able to install the cert. How would I go about that. The guide only shows entries for the key and cert.

Thanks!

So, Broadcom bought VMWare.

It also looks like they're sparing no time showing their cards on how this is going to play out:
https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/27/broadcom_vmware_subscriptions/

My wonder is if this is going to drive companies (especially smaller shops) to re-evaluate and look to XCP or Hyper-V (I'm leaving Citrix out, because they have their own ownership woes to contend with).

Is Vates/XCP as an org ready for a (potential) influx of customers and the level of support they look for?

@stormi

It still moves it ahead of RHEL where as CentOS typically trailed (briefly). I'm not sure what to make of ANOTHER dev branch considering I thought that was the niche Fedora fit in.

Found the other thread. Disregard this post.

https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/3925/centos-8-is-eol-in-2021-what-will-xcp-ng-do

@olivierlambert

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/remote/remote-desktop-services/clients/remote-desktop-uri

a plain rpd://ip-address seems to work fine in Mac OS and iOS but more information may be needed on windows clients not sure if the uris work on all systems the same.

EDIT
Looks like windows doesn't support URI to RDP but Microsoft makes it work for basically every other OS. I still think its a worthwhile feature even if it is slightly less functional because Microsoft is weird.

I love the new SSH links in the console windows. Would it be possible to have an RDP link generated for Windows machines? I don't know if there is a way to detect if RDP is enabled, but a fat client link would definitely be helpful. Especially when working on a tablet (which the SSH links make immeasurably better now)