@effrey_lim I finally figured it out (thanks to my best friend grep)

The configured_appliance command is not working by default because the alias is not set by puppet, but with the full path, I can start the installation and provide network info.

I need to regenerate a clean image, since I played with the current one too much.

@effrey_lim do you want me to pre-install the appliance with your network infos, or do you just want the steps to configure it ?

@rchw I added them in live mode, when I was chrooed in the SLES disk. But I have a problem with SELinux, sometimes the tools are not working because SELinux block the service. For now, I deactivated SELinux, but I don't like this workaround.

@lakpyro the two files are

    /opt/dell/omc/utilities/tui/bin/ome_disk_config.sh
    /opt/dell/mcsi/appliance/scripts/appliance_ressource.sh

@taxyaNetwork So the issue was in fact the drivers missing. The appliance is now booting
However, I can't figure how to configure the appliance to access the web page.
(I played with the network config, hostname, etc)

So for now, I have this:

I think the appliance is trying to use the vmware tools to get some infos, but since we are not on vmware...
I'll try to bypass it

@lakpyro it's a possibility, but I don't know how dell manage it appliance. But worth to try !

For reference, I got the OVA, import in progress on my pool , hoping is "just" a driver issue

@tormi Also, some bit of code are hardcoded with /dev/sd*, I changed that to /dev/xvd*

@tormi TLDR: xen-blkfront and xen-netfront drivers are missing
More info here: https://blog.ataxya.net/add-xen-driver-to-ome-dell-open-manage-enterprise/

@rchw Thanks for the idea ! I'll try this

@lakpyro yeah unfortunately I think dell overwrite every file when updating the appliance. It will be an issue for every update.

I can try to prepare an up-to-date instance and give it to you, if you want. But I'll need to regenerate the appliance each time an update is available and depending on if dell is providing regulars updates, I can be annoying

@heNorthernLight guest-tools and SELinux, I bypass it, but it's not the best case I can achieve. I am working on a better fix

@effrey_lim unfortunately I don't have a Dell account
I will send you a link in DM so you can upload it on my nextcloud

@effrey_lim Hi !

I guess is something like the OME appliance (missing Xen driver, see https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/92384)

Do you have the link to download the appliance, so I can see if I can make it boot ?

@cplak you can try to install the package lvm2 on your xo source

@lackliner Honestly I never had this use case, but I would imagine terraform has a feature for this.

I'll look into it, it's got me curious

@rtaza9 I never used Oracle Linux, but for Debian, here is the list of the package needed to have a working cloud init:

unattended-upgrades, dpkg, cloud-init, cloud-guest-utils, cloud-initramfs-growroot, cloud-image-utils, cloud-utils

should be almost the same, I think

@oncuddy @heNorthernLight @ctechsolution

I have a new version available !

What's changed:

• Fixed disk detection
• CPU/RAM is correctly detected
• I was able to install and uninstall some plugins (Power Manager, Integration for VMware Center, Operation Manager)
• Network is configured with DHCP by default
• Added the guest-tools !

To do:

• Try to hack the grub password (because it's fun)
• Have more feedback to tackle the last bugs (I know my fixes is not perfect)
• Have Dell official support

Ping me if you want the appliance, I'll send you a link with the password !
I'll try to use it with my 3 R630 machines to do further tests

@livierlambert can we change the topic title to something more accurate ?
Since it became the OME megathread

@rtaza9 Hi !

Two options:

• Create the VM by hands with XO and the ISO, install the package required for cloud init, shutdown the VMs and convert to template
• Or do it via packer: you have an example here for Debian: https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2024/02/22/using-packer-with-xcp-ng/
  You can add the necessary package with the Ansible module

@lackliner Hi !
I never use autoscale, but I would imagine something that can trigger a CI/CD when scaling is needed, and use terraform to deploy new VMs based on your template.

Out of curiosity, what type of application are you running and need autoscaling ? And how new VM added via autoscaling are rejoining the other VMs to work together ?

(you gave me an idea :D)

If you already tried to use the OVA appliance of Wazuh, you probably saw the Wazuh splash screen, and then left with a black screen.
Unlike the Dell OME appliance (https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/78651), the fix is pretty simple: we just need to reconfigure the grub.

To do that:

• Boot with any live CD with rescue you want (I use Debian)
• Follow the installer, and mount the /dev/xvda1 partition, and execute the shell on /dev/xvda1
• cat /etc/default/grub, you should see this file:
  
• From here, you can vi /etc/default/grub replace /dev/sda by /dev/xvda. Then :wq
• To reconfigure the grub, just do a grub2-mkconfig, the grub will display all its config.
• When the grub is done vomiting all its configuration, umount the DVD on your VM, and reboot, and tada !

To install the tool, log in the console, sudo -i, plug the guest-tools.iso, mount /dev/cdrom /mnt, and bash /mnt/Linux/install.sh -d rhel -m 9
The tools are now installed !

If you have a question, don't hesitate to ping me !

@ezke Thank you very much ! It'll be helpful for me and the community

@disoninfo Hi,
What's xo-install.sh ? It's a third party script ?