This is not just a powerful symbolic thing: by closing issue n°1, we are really reaffirming our independance and our capacity to build everything without using any binary provided by Citrix.

It's really a great news for XCP-ng's future!

https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/issues/1

olivierlambert created this issue in xcp-ng/xcp

closed Build components from the sources #1

Since last week, we have a new team member @ronan-a is now part of Vates XCP-ng team, with @stormi and myself.

@r1 and @johnelse are still with us as external contributors.

@ronan-a , feel free to introduce yourself here (and the stuff you are working on)

What about this one?

To avoid splitting the community, we'll merge XO forum in this category. It seems not possible (or very not trivial) to fetch the previous XO threads here, so we'll probably have a transition time until we redirect directly XO forum URL toward this category directly.

Maybe it wasn't clear? French gov won't do anything in the project, they just support it as a research and dev project boosting innovation, and indirectly contributing to create more jobs that can't be replicated easily elsewhere.

There's no "control" on how we decide to do the R&D, as long as we put resources into it as we said.

XCP-ng is a free and community project, and everybody who want to contribute can do it. There's no "link" between us and any government.

So far we got 4 templates available:

• Debian 10 cloudinit ready/disk growable/DHCP
• CentOS 8 cloudinit ready/disk growable/DHCP
• PfSense 2.4
• Alpine Linux 3.10

Would you like other OS? Or even apps installed in those OS? Let us know!

Less yellowish terminal to use less different colors and keeping the variations in the logo:

For XCP-ng 8 we thought that it might be interesting to get a dedicated visual identity outside the boot splash: the prompt and the "ncurse" display.

A new prompt

• removed the current user (because it's an "appliance", with only root
• added current time, very handy to know how long your command took (eg export)
• using XCP-ng colors

New vs old:

Obviously, we got a fallback for terminal without color support.

Also, it also works on white background terms:

A new console theme (xsconsole)

New vs old:

There is also a fallback on terminals without color support (unchanged)

Maybe you could think it's a minor thing, but in the end, that's how we show XCP-ng is not just a clone of CH/XS

Obviously, you can still configure this easily (especially the prompt, because you can override it).

What do you think?

https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2019/04/25/citrix-hypervisor-8-0-is-here/
and
https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-hypervisor/whats-new.html

So this is the starting point of a LOT of things for us. We'll keep you posted on what's new regarding SMAPIv3 perfs, UEFI and everything else.

Stay tuned!

https://xenproject.org/2019/04/02/whats-new-in-xen-4-12/

In short:

• 1446 commits from 364 patches
• possibility to build for PV or HVM/PVH only (reducing attack surface)
• QEMU deprivilege (also reducing attack surface)
• Argo (new inter-domain communication, @ronan-a will take a look)
• Improved VM introspection (less overhead)
• Credit 2 schedule by default
• PVH dom0 in tech preview
• Better IOMMU mapping for improved EPYC boot time
• auto dom0 sizing (% of total system RAM or static+percent)

Details: https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Project_4.12_Feature_List

xe vm-param-list for a VM

Try to get all object info so we can compare what XCP-ng Center is doing vs XO.

And today I'm please to present you @beshleman He's a Xen developer, experienced in ARM.

He'll work on various missions, from long run investigations (porting Xen on RISC-V, feasibility of having XCP-ng on ARM) but also shorter term missions, like secure boot support for XCP-ng and so on

It's already in closed beta at various places It will already work as fully manual install, because Gluster packages are available inside 8.1 directly

Thanks for the suggestion, but don't you think we never thought to that before? I start to think you are considering us as 2 people in a garage.

We are crunching numbers on a regular basis, and it never computes with those models. Proxmox is here since a long time, with a strong and "large" use base allowing to use this model. This is not the case for us now.

So on short term, this is not doable. But be assured we are continuously working on testing various models to see what's the best fit.

You should use GitHub and create an issue. This will be taken into account for XO 6 web UI

Agent is bundled with XCP-ng tools. It's just in case you are using Windows Update for getting Citrix driver that you aren't "covered".

Feedback/tests is REALLY vital for the community We might have spotted this, or not. So we spared bundling another ISO/upgrade after the release Thanks again!

thanks!

Fixed to me. @jmccoy555 can you try again after updating?