Your most loved* basic client XCP-ng Center 8.0.0 is now released:

https://github.com/xcp-ng/xenadmin/releases/tag/v.8.0.0

*of course XenOrchestra is the most loved advanced client

it's now released! https://github.com/xcp-ng/xenadmin/releases/tag/v8.0.1.26

Hello together,

to avoid more and more confusion about the pieces of the XCP-ng Universe, I'll try to describe what is what.

The Hypervisor, the Host, the Virtualisation Server: XCP-ng

This is the thing you install on bare hardware, it consists of:

• the XEN kernel
• Dom0 - the management domain (it's basicaly a highly custom CentOS with drivers, various services and some glue logic)
• DomU - the VMs, the virtual machines, the things you virtualize
• Love

It's exact the same concept like CITRIX XenServer or CITRIX Hypervisor. XCP-ng is derived from them. Something like a fork, but not so hard.

• issues: https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/issues

The basic management software, the windows client, the thing with the tree: XCP-ng Center

• community project
  • issues: https://github.com/xcp-ng/xenadmin/issues
  • download: https://github.com/xcp-ng/xenadmin/releases
• some help from Vates

It's derived from CITRIX XenCenter.

The advanced management software, the web client, the backup solution and more: XenOrchestra

• commercial product from Vates
• community driven
  • issues: https://github.com/vatesfr/xen-orchestra/issues
• can be build from sources with all pro features enabled
  • https://xen-orchestra.com/docs/from_the_sources.html
• only community support

It's not derived from anything (as far as I know).

The ready to use XenOrchestra, the appliance: XOA

• single line to install on XCP-ng
• can be licenced with pro features and pro support from Vates
• is a ready to use VM

The company behind: Vates

Olivier Lambert and his company Vates startet all the jazz. They provide pro support for XCP-ng (the host) and XenOrchestra. They help to sign XCP-ng Center and the XCP-ng Windows Client Tools (and drivers) with an proper EV certificate.

https://www.linux-magazin.de/ausgaben/2020/03/xcp-ng/

Hello Community!

I hope you all had a good start into year 2020!

I decided to change the way I release XCP-ng Center due the lack of other people participating in development. In future I will only release builds based on the master branch of CITRIX XenCenter (https://github.com/xenserver/xenadmin).

Pro:

• fixes from CITRIX xenadmin (aka XenCenter) master branch will be faster present in our releases
• only one upstream branch to merge from; reduces the hassle to merge/cherry pick from/to 3 different branches (like 7.6, 8.0, master).

Contra:

• hmm... maybe there is none

Within this change the version schema will also change. I think I use the YEAR.MONTH schema, so the next release will be "XCP-ng Center 2020.01".

The first step in this direction is the pre-relase of the current nightly build 99.99.99.27: https://github.com/xcp-ng/xenadmin/releases/tag/v99.99.99.27

If you have problems to install Citrix(TM) or XCP-ng Windows Guest Tools, please try the first working version of this tool:

https://schulzalex.de/builds/xcp-ng/XCP-ng-Windows-Guest-Tools-Cleaner_alpha_1.0.0.0.zip

Good

Bad

Hello all together!

I started to build a little tool, that should help to find the problems before installing/updating the Guest Tools in a Windows VM. For now its only a first start, but it can grow to a very usefull tool.

Any constructive help or hint is very welcome!

Later (so my plans) it should be a part of a new Guest Tools Installer.

Issue: https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/issues/152
GIT repository: https://github.com/xcp-ng/win-installer-ng

borzel created this issue in xcp-ng/xcp

open Windows guest tools pre-install checker #152

Hello, I did today a quick test with GlusterFS. Here is a quick HowTo: https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/wiki/GlusterFS

Please feel free to contribute! (to the wiki and here)

And what changes they push to github...

We prepared a pre-release of our PV-Drivers and the Management Agent for you to play with:

https://github.com/xcp-ng/win-pv-drivers/releases/tag/v7.5.0-testsigned-testmode

The drivers are not signed properly, but this will happen as soon as possible. To test the drivers, you have to enable the so called "test mode" on windows, which allows to load testsigned drivers for testing

Make backups! Make Snapshots! So you can rollback if your windows dont want to boot anymore.

So please test and report back here! Thanks for your help!

@stormi supercool

I just endet up to remove all URLs with "citrix." in them, except for XML-Namespaces which are not executed as download.

I have big hopes for a new major XO(A) release to replace XCP-ng Center with a hopefull spectecular good way of a tree view

Fix is available: https://github.com/xcp-ng/xenadmin/releases/tag/20.03.01.31

Sorry for the trouble

Please update to XCP-ng Center 20.03.01.31 to avoid the confusion with CITRIX updates.

(See also: https://github.com/xcp-ng/xenadmin/issues/183)

borzel created this issue in xcp-ng/xenadmin

open XCP-ng Center should not display updates from CITRIX #183

@Biggen I think the same, but until there is no tree in XO, I get not used to XO(A).
And I didn't catch anything, this was my entire fault (did you notice the XCP-NG CENTER TEAM badge near my username?)

https://github.com/xcp-ng/xenadmin/issues/183

borzel created this issue in xcp-ng/xenadmin

open XCP-ng Center should not display updates from CITRIX #183

Fix is available: https://github.com/xcp-ng/xenadmin/releases/tag/20.03.01.31

Hello together,

due tue

• my lack of attention/testing during building and packaging the release of XCP-ng Center 20.03.00.29
• AND changes in the storage of the update url in the upstream project of XCP-ng Center

many of you see wrong update notifications in XCP-ng Center 20.03.00.29.

This is wrong! DO NOT APPLY THESE UPDATES!!

This is wrong! DO NOT APPLY THESE UPDATES!!

https://github.com/xcp-ng/xenadmin/issues/183

borzel created this issue in xcp-ng/xenadmin

open XCP-ng Center should not display updates from CITRIX #183

possible bug with host update notification: https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/2720/update-confusion

https://github.com/xcp-ng/xenadmin/releases/tag/v20.03.00.29

Please discuss issues here and/or report at https://github.com/xcp-ng/xenadmin/issues