Xen Orchestra and XCP-ng founder. Vates CEO and co-founder.
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
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)
It's far from being complete, but it's a great first step in improving XCP-ng existing documentation and also visibility/credibility!
Everyone can still contribute (link on the bottom of each page), even if it's a bit more difficult than the wiki.
Let me know what you think about it
What about the wiki? We'll probably to continue to have very specific content there, and "promote" content to the doc if it "fits" for enough people.
https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2020/04/17/100-000-downloads-for-xcp-ng/
So you probably spotted the news, feel free to comment here 
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.
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.
The release blog post with more details:
https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/xen-orchestra-5-79
Hello there! We will announce very soon the first preview of our VMware migration tool, using only the VMware API (via Xen Orchestra).
We did some tests, but we need broader feedback from VMware users in our community.
master) or latest release channel (XOA, latest channel)xo-cli (see below)xo-cli vm.importFromEsxi host=<VSPHERE_IP> user=<VSPHERE_USER> password=<VSHPERE_PWD> sslVerify=<true|false> vm=<VSPHERE_VM_ID> sr=<SR_UUID> network=<NETWORK_UUID>
Right now, we are facing various challenges. If you have some VMware experience, we'd like your point of view.
So far we got 4 templates available:
Would you like other OS? Or even apps installed in those OS? Let us know!
See https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2021/09/14/runx-next-generation-secured-containers/ for more details.
If you want to test high level of security with your containers, yes. Or if you like to play with shiny new techs and report bugs 
THIS IS A TECH PREVIEW
It's not meant to run in production. Play with it in your lab, not in production. You have been warned 
Follow the next section.
Create the file /etc/yum.repos.d/xcp-ng-runx.repo with:
[xcp-ng-runx]
name=XCP-ng runx Repository
baseurl=http://mirrors.xcp-ng.org/8/8.2/runx/x86_64/ http://updates.xcp-ng.org/8/8.2/runx/x86_64/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
repo_gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-xcpng
Then, install all the packages:
yum install --enablerepo=epel -y qemu-dp xenopsd xenopsd-cli xenopsd-xc xcp-ng-xapi-storage runx
yum install --enablerepo="base,extras" docker podman
xe-toolstack-restart
mkdir runx-sr
mkdir -p /root/runx-sr
xe sr-create type=fsp name-label=runx-sr device-config:file-uri=/root/runx-sr
You must create a VM template with the desired amount of ram an the number of cores to use. Make sure the vm type is: PV.
It's not necessary to add disk to this VM.
Open /etc/runx.conf and modify these variables: SR_UUID and TEMPLATE_UUID.
Using podman:
podman pull archlinux
podman container create --name archlinux archlinux
podman start archlinux
With docker:
podman with docker.docker -b none.Please test and report any problem
Select thin on the XO V2V tool, that might be faster in the end. Patience is key
@julien-f do you remember how hard it was to create a FAT system entirely from XO in Javascript? Do you think it's a lot harder to do that in a partition? (ie creating the partition table, then just one partition with the FAT system inside)
Okay if I sum up, "just" creating a FAT16 partition table could do the trick?
@alexredston you can workaround it by stopping the VM and that will work
Well, all those questions are answered if you take time to read the doc.
XOA stands for "Xen Orchestra virtual Appliance". It is a pre configured Xen Orchestra software bundled in a Debian VM, coming in a tested environment (all libs, Node version, and so on). That's the only way we have to deliver something with pro support. There's also a web updater to keep up with our monthly QA/tested releases (you have 2 channels: stable and latest). Just click and it's up to date. There's also a support tunnel capability for remote assistance when you decide to open it. XOA is a combination of turnkeyness solution combined with tested software and support if you need it. It's meant for companies, not really individuals.
All of this is open source, so you can also decide to install and build it yourself by just following our official doc (it's not even hidden or whatnot, and it's very simple). You will have all the XO features, less the updater, QA/tests on a controlled env, or any pro support.
As you can see, you are free to make all your choice. But you need to read the documentation first, really
You can download the XVA file (check the link I posted before, there's the manual XVA deploy method). However, you'll need to enable internet access to register your XOA and update it to the last version, sicne the XVA was generated 2y ago, it's far from being up to date.
But if you can open internet in a temporary fashion, then, why not opening it just the time to deploy it in the first place?
It's not really a home lab or for purely personal use, then?
That's why it doesn't work. Your browser is just telling your host to download it from the internet, therefore it's stuck until it timeout. But how do you plan to make updates on your host? Or with XOA? If you don't have internet access?
It might be due to various reasons depending on your setup.
You can try with https://xen-orchestra.com/docs/xoa.html#alternative-install
I wonder what's going on in your case 