@tiner1442 Well snapshots aren't backups of course. And you have to do it manually.
It's too bad we can't have a full blown management interface running right on the xcp-ng server ala Proxmox and ESXi. A pipe dream I know by the sound of it. But damn, my home Proxmox lab is so easy to administer.
@olivierlambert What is it that you can actually do with it? Restoring a backup would be the ideal thing especially for a single host installation. But since you say that its not designed for that, what exactly can one do with it? Start/Stop VMs? Add storage?
@arvid I think I built it with 3GB last time I tried. I don’t think you can build it with less anymore.
@s-pam Yeah I assume it works just like linux top with IRIX mode on (Shift + I).
@mrbaz I don't think its been implemented yet. Its coming from what I've read though.
I thought you could deploy a new appliance, connect to your back remotes, and restore metadata/backups from the new appliance even without a registered version. Is this not the case?
@jgibbons You can run XO anywhere it will compile. So run as many as you want on multiple physical machines. It doesn’t have to be run in a VM on the actual xcp-ng hosts.
@olivierlambert Yup, I meant Citrix and whatever they call it now - XenServer.
There is also Oracle Linux which is another RHEL offshoot.
Will be interesting to see what Xen decides to do. Does xcp-ng forge ahead on their own and pick a distribution that Xen doesn’t?
@george5888 You can build XO from sources and have access to everything: https://xen-orchestra.com/docs/from_the_sources.html
I agree with these guys above. Having a tree view seems like a no-brainer. It feels like its the industry standard (it should be if its not) for management GUI for hypervisors/VMs to be honest.
Have you actually tried to mount the NFS share from another machine and see if you can read/write to it? This sounds like an NFS permissions issue.
With NFS, you don't usually have a username/password. You can restrict access, if you wish, via IP or other measures. I have a Synology NAS unit configured as a NFS Remote for XO to send backups to. I don't specify a user/password for the share. I just feed XO the path to the share and let it rip.
@S-Pam Literally the first post has a big bold headline that tells exactly how you go about upgrading by linking to the docs.
And then in the sixth post from the top Oliver says it’s reasonable to believe the final release will be in 2 months.
Have to wonder what the use case of something like this is other than "it can be done". Your cell phone has more processing power and memory than the RPi has.
The bug/security patches upstream never seem to end. Seems like since April all you guys have had time for is this...
Do you see the new drive when you do an lsblk in the xcp-ng host?
Option 1 is also what I do. I can't stand having to set static IPs in individual VMs (or any physical machine for that matter). Much easier to do it inside the router GUI where all the MACs are stored.
I'm waiting for the same feature. I have a surveillance camera VM with a 20TB array that I don't want to back up. I created an Ansible playbook to recreate just the OS in the event I needed to since I can't backup the VM but that is kinda a hack. I'd rather exclude the video footage array and backup the OS.
Perhaps it was fixed. The bug report doesn’t show it: https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/issues/379
I uninstalled it back in April and haven’t retested.
Doe the netdata update not actually fix the missing network interfaces or virtual drives?