Hello everyone,

I'm also a new contributer to XCP-ng!
For now I'll be working with @ronan-a on the SMAPIv3 plugins.
After that probably on open vSwitch.

Benjamin

Hi all!

After 4 months of effort we are very happy to provide a 1st test ISO with IPv6 support in XCP-ng dom0.

Read our devblog here: https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2021/02/09/ipv6-in-xcp-ng/

The ISO is available here and the corresponding SHA is: 177eade2efa8b6c989847c970e5cab3e6eb24de5a2eef153a0fc422071f9234b.

Keep in mind this is a test ISO so do NOT use it in production and please report in this thread if you encounter any issue or if your tests are going well.

The devblog contains the known limitation of the ISO, updates will be provided in this thread when fixes and features are available.

I hope you'll have fun with it!

Hi all!

8.2.1 IPv6 ISO available!

Here's a new ISO for IPv6 based on XCP-ng 8.2.1!
The ISO can be used to upgrade an existing server installed with the previous IPv6 test ISO or install a brand new XCP-ng 8.2.1 with IPv6 support on management interface.

A non-IPv6 8.2.0 would remain non-IPv6 after an upgrade as it's not possible to edit the management interface's primary adress type.

An 8.2.0 IPv6 hosts can also be upgraded via yum: yum upgrade --enablerepo=xcp-ng-updates,xcp-ng-ipv6.

What's new

• All 8.2.1 fixes
• Better DNS management in the case of both IPv4 and IPv6 configured on a PIF
• Partial support of IPv6 DHCP and autoconf

What to test

• Your daily uses of XCP-ng but with IPv6
• DHCP and autoconf (I have reached the limits of my knowledge so help from the community with more IPv6 expertise would be very VERY VERY helpful! :D)
  The goal of this ISO release is mainly to get help and leads about what's missing in DHCP and Autoconf.

Any issue encountered (and what works fine also) can be reported in this thread.

Usual warning

This a test ISO with an experimental feature still in development.
IPv6 on management interface is not officially supported by XCP-ng yet and so, we do not recommend to use it for a production environment.

Thanks a lot for the help and I hope the ISO will work well for everyone.

New xsconsole fix to test for 8.2

New update candidate are available for testing and due to be released as official updates.

Original topic:

• https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/3886/xcp-ng-8-2-dns-settings-gone-after-reboot
• https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/3277/dns-config-on-8-1-hosts-disappearing

yum clean metadata --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing
yum update xsconsole --enablerepo=xcp-ng-testing
systemctl restart xsconsole.service 

What to test

Changing the DNS settings from the XSConsole and the change is retain after a reboot.

Good news, ISCSI shared storage already works in IPv6 with no package update!

An update will be released in the coming weeks for NFS support in the IPv6 case!

Has anyone play with the ISO? Any kind of feedback is very welcomed!

First update available!

The xsconsole rpm can be updated via: yum update --disablerepo='*' --enablerepo=ipv6 xsconsole.

The issue fixed was that the DNS couldn't modified via XSConsole when configured in static IPv6, it's now possible.

Hi!

In your Pool view there's a network tab where you can rename your networks by clicking on their name and enter a new one.

Regards.

@AtaxyaNetwork thanks for the report.

I reproduced the issue, for some reason at first boot XCP-ng launch an IPv4 dhclient request (even though IPv4 is not configured on the management interface...) which overrides the DNS set after the request is replied to.

Hi all! Long time no see ^^

I'm glad to say i'm back on IPv6 and will (soon-ish) provide a new IPv6 iso to test XCP-ng with an IPv6 management interface.
I've made some fixes to DNS management.

Before the new ISO i'd like to support ideally DHCPv6 and autoconf.
For now I managed to :

• sometimes have an IP with DHCPv6 and sometimes a DNS - no gateway but it's exepected with stateless DHCPv6.
• Have an IP with Autoconf - No Gateway & no DNS

I'm looking for help as my field of expertise is more ocaml dev than IPv6.
I'm thinking especially of @AtaxyaNetwork and @bnerickson that I know have more knowledge than me for IPv6. Any help from a forum users would be greatly appreciated.

For DHCPv6 this is the conf of dhclient:

interface "xenbr0" {
  send fqdn.fqdn = gethostname();
  request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, host-name, interface-mtu, dhcp6.nis-servers, dhcp6.nisp-servers, nis-domain-name, nisp-domain-name, dhcp6.sntp-servers, dhcp6.fqdn, routers, dhcp6.domain-search, dhcp6.name-servers;
}

For Autoconf here's what's done:

/sbin/sysctl -q -w net.ipv6.conf.xenbr0.autoconf=1
/sbin/sysctl -q -w net.ipv6.conf.xenbr0.accept_ra=1

Am I missing something obvious? I can provide more info if requested.
Also I can made available a test iso before the real one but it'd be really a experimental ISO.

Thanks!

a little recap of the thread for anyone who'd like to help us by testing the feature.

XCP-ng IPv6 recap

A test ISO is available to test a new feature: having your XCP-ng hosts with an IPv6 management interface.

To have an IPv6 host, you must either install a new host or upgrade one with the test ISO.

More info on the dedicated blogpost
Please give any feedback in this thread!

Known limitations

• IPv6 Static only for now
• HA not tested yet
• Dual stack (both IPv4 and IPv6) can lead to DNS issues and the host will use IPv4 for its XAPI operations.

@mbunkus thanks for the report.

About entering an IPv6 address for NFS in XOA: did you put the [] around the IPv6?
If so and it still failed you can indeed create an issue on vatesfr/xen-orchestra repo (make sure to reference this thread if you do).

For the rest, no need to create issues, i'm aware of them and I'll note them in our internal board for next devs.

Regards

I think it was another issue regarding the RPU algorythm.
This is an issue with the xapi-plugins code.

@olivierlambert the issue is within the xapi-plugins package on XCP-ng.
A release candidate with the fis is on testing and will be released with next train of XCP-ng updates.

For now the update should be done in CLI with the yum command.

@AtaxyaNetwork thanks for the report.

I reproduced the issue, for some reason at first boot XCP-ng launch an IPv4 dhclient request (even though IPv4 is not configured on the management interface...) which overrides the DNS set after the request is replied to.

Hi all!

8.2.1 IPv6 ISO available!

Here's a new ISO for IPv6 based on XCP-ng 8.2.1!
The ISO can be used to upgrade an existing server installed with the previous IPv6 test ISO or install a brand new XCP-ng 8.2.1 with IPv6 support on management interface.

A non-IPv6 8.2.0 would remain non-IPv6 after an upgrade as it's not possible to edit the management interface's primary adress type.

An 8.2.0 IPv6 hosts can also be upgraded via yum: yum upgrade --enablerepo=xcp-ng-updates,xcp-ng-ipv6.

What's new

• All 8.2.1 fixes
• Better DNS management in the case of both IPv4 and IPv6 configured on a PIF
• Partial support of IPv6 DHCP and autoconf

What to test

• Your daily uses of XCP-ng but with IPv6
• DHCP and autoconf (I have reached the limits of my knowledge so help from the community with more IPv6 expertise would be very VERY VERY helpful! :D)
  The goal of this ISO release is mainly to get help and leads about what's missing in DHCP and Autoconf.

Any issue encountered (and what works fine also) can be reported in this thread.

Usual warning

This a test ISO with an experimental feature still in development.
IPv6 on management interface is not officially supported by XCP-ng yet and so, we do not recommend to use it for a production environment.

Thanks a lot for the help and I hope the ISO will work well for everyone.

@AtaxyaNetwork so infact the issue was with our IPv6 lab config (lol) so XOA is reachable in fact with an IPv6 address ahah.
So you can play with it.

Now i'm back on my DHCPv6/Autoconf/SLAAC investigations

@AtaxyaNetwork there are some issues, but on XOA's side.
For now the deploy script specifically wait for an IPv4 to complete succesfully so it won't even though the XOA VM is up and running.
For some reason it seems the XO app is not reachable with the IPv6 address in a web browser. I'm still investigating that.

@AtaxyaNetwork also, i tried to reproduce you XOA deploy issue buf failed, did you add [] around the IPv6 of your XCP-ng when filling up the deploy form?

Thanks.

Hi all! Long time no see ^^

I'm glad to say i'm back on IPv6 and will (soon-ish) provide a new IPv6 iso to test XCP-ng with an IPv6 management interface.
I've made some fixes to DNS management.

Before the new ISO i'd like to support ideally DHCPv6 and autoconf.
For now I managed to :

• sometimes have an IP with DHCPv6 and sometimes a DNS - no gateway but it's exepected with stateless DHCPv6.
• Have an IP with Autoconf - No Gateway & no DNS

I'm looking for help as my field of expertise is more ocaml dev than IPv6.
I'm thinking especially of @AtaxyaNetwork and @bnerickson that I know have more knowledge than me for IPv6. Any help from a forum users would be greatly appreciated.

For DHCPv6 this is the conf of dhclient:

interface "xenbr0" {
  send fqdn.fqdn = gethostname();
  request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, host-name, interface-mtu, dhcp6.nis-servers, dhcp6.nisp-servers, nis-domain-name, nisp-domain-name, dhcp6.sntp-servers, dhcp6.fqdn, routers, dhcp6.domain-search, dhcp6.name-servers;
}

For Autoconf here's what's done:

/sbin/sysctl -q -w net.ipv6.conf.xenbr0.autoconf=1
/sbin/sysctl -q -w net.ipv6.conf.xenbr0.accept_ra=1

Am I missing something obvious? I can provide more info if requested.
Also I can made available a test iso before the real one but it'd be really a experimental ISO.

Thanks!

Hi @paulcunnane,

Thanks for the report.

Are you using XO from the sources of the Appliance?
The recipe doesn't work anymore but next XOA release will fix it, the recipe has been migrated to use Debian11 instead of Debian10.

The tasks thing has nothing to do with the kubernetes recipe, it's just XO regularly calling the updater plugin to look for updates.