@HamiltonWDS Thanks for the report. As it works with wget let use it! I'll switch from curl to wget in doc. In the meantime some colleagues will investigate more.
@ronan-a I am very interested in implementing XOSTOR on XCP-NG 8.3 in my production environment. Currently running two nodes but I can expand to 3. How can I help to create a stable release of XOSTOR? I am not a developer but maybe I can provide feedback.
If you need another trial, no problem. To me, the problem is not in XOA (the broken commit was done after the monthly release) and fixed today, so it means it would be never shipped in XOA.
Then I am fine, building XO from Sources provides me with the ability to backup my VMs, which was the only XOA "Feature" I was using...
1: Yes, I have seen some of @AtaxyaNetwork Proxmox posts. I'll go back and read them again.
2: No big deal, I only have like 5 vm's on Proxmox, V2V is my choice of tools!
The Xen / XCP-ng equivalent for VMXNET are Xen PV device drivers which either come from Citrix Xenserver, XCP-ng or the Xenserver project itself. Check the Wiki. It describes the installation pretty well: https://xcp-ng.org/docs/guests.html#windows
As for 3D acceleration within the VM there is hardly a comparable option unless you do some PCIe pass through of a GPU.
According to Microsoft you need to use their built in backup feature or a software that supports AD and VSS which will tell the VM OS that it is going to be backed up.
Unless you do this there might be corruption of the AD Databases according to Microsoft.
ALL THO we've been backing up our AD servers with XOA snapshots (Both normal backup and incremental) and had only 1 issue since we started using XOA in 2016.
Since that issue we also use a guest agent (From Ahsay CBS) that makes a Windows System State backup and Windows System Backup.
