@cg
I'm not questioning that it works. As @olivierlambert said, those templates do not include much and do not change even over multiple major releases.
But I really think the major releases should be in the templates, as the missing current OS versions give the impression, that xcp is somewhat lagging behind (lagging behind the competition, that is).
In my company we are advised to use RHEL, as we have running support contracts with Red Hat. So releases like RHEL, CentOS, Debian etc. are really important. But you know best, what your customers use...

Not sure if I want to register my XOA, as I'm only running 3-5 Linux VMs on one machine. Tried Debian with KVM and cockpit before, but it did not meet my expectations.

When there is a future release of xcp, I would be willing to give that a spin too.

Hi,

I just deployed XOA through XO Lite.
So far everything looks ok, but VM Templates seem to be out of date. I am missing Debian 13 and CentOS 10.

Is there a way to update the Templates via XOA (unregistered) or through the CLI?

Thanks
bikemuch

@cg said in Update Templates:

@bikemuch I registered an XOA-account to keep a few machines with XOA maintained. It's free, not much to loose.

Ok, I will think about it... but I lean more towards the open source side

Many of us are looking forward for a 9.0 release, including a modern 5.x or even 6.x kernel, including all the developments and improvements, that have been made.

That would make quite a big difference.

Also things like 16TB+ disks on block storage (incl. thin provisioning) etc.

Will thin provisioning be the new default?

If your company is running a bigger environment: You can put priorities on features as a paying customer.

Don't get that wrong. I installed xcp on my personal rig.
The company I work for uses converged cloud, but my work is not infrastructure related. I only write automated tests for frontend testing.

@cg
I'm not questioning that it works. As @olivierlambert said, those templates do not include much and do not change even over multiple major releases.
But I really think the major releases should be in the templates, as the missing current OS versions give the impression, that xcp is somewhat lagging behind (lagging behind the competition, that is).
In my company we are advised to use RHEL, as we have running support contracts with Red Hat. So releases like RHEL, CentOS, Debian etc. are really important. But you know best, what your customers use...

Not sure if I want to register my XOA, as I'm only running 3-5 Linux VMs on one machine. Tried Debian with KVM and cockpit before, but it did not meet my expectations.

When there is a future release of xcp, I would be willing to give that a spin too.

@Pilow
Thanks. There is not much there to see.

@Danp
First of all thanks for the reply.

I don't want to complain, as I'm using the software unlicenced, but the fact that CentOS 10, which was released 10 Months ago, is not in in the templates of a freshly deployed xcp-ng/XOA, gives a very bad first impression. It looks like nobody actually cares what is in the VM Templates and what is not.
If XOA aims at professionals, someone should really fix such small things.

I managed to install Debian 13 with the Debian 12 template. It is working.

Hi,

I just deployed XOA through XO Lite.
So far everything looks ok, but VM Templates seem to be out of date. I am missing Debian 13 and CentOS 10.

Is there a way to update the Templates via XOA (unregistered) or through the CLI?

Thanks
bikemuch