Posts made by olivierlambert

You'll need to pass the drive directly to XOA VM. Plug the USB HDD, and then you should be able to add it in the VM view/disk tab, Attach, select the USB drive. That's it.

Sorry I don't understand what you meant.

Check if those VM got auto restart in their advanced tab.

That's why I thought. NEVER enable base repo. If you want a package from their, just enable it during the yum install command line.

Yup, but before (0.8) it wasn't good for performances, at all, due to cache poisoning (no O_DIRECT support).

Good So now you are on ZoL 0.8, no need to disable sync anymore

Which was? (the issue)

@bazzacad said in XOA Update patches fails:

My pool says it has 268 patches

Hmm. I think it's not an XOA issue but a problem on your XCP-ng host. Why do you have such high number of updates? Did you tinker the repo conf files?

Since ZoL 0.8 is here, supporting O_DIRECT, everything might just work out of the box. We'll try it and report

Okay thanks. Note that with XCP-ng 8.0, it will be even easier to deploy XOA, directly from the host HTTP URL "mini website".

Regarding Citrix choice: I think they can't really publicly communicate about the reasons. It might be related to security issues and some CPU vendors not upgrading microcodes anymore.

That's why it should work technically speaking, but Citrix won't be liable for any security breach due to an "old" CPU.

Regarding XCP-ng: as long as it just works, and you don't pay for support, I think you'll be fine for your home lab

Please report if you have any issue with 8.0 on your old hardware, we'll try to help as far as we could.

Do you have a default SR set? Do you have a proxy from this host?

1. Because if your server is taking fire/water/electrical or any physical issue, having a box at another place (even just at another room close to it) is far far far safer. Really, it worth every $ of this very low investment.
2. XO backups aren't meant to work like that. If you want to plug/unplug the HDD, this will require something in XO VM to be able to get the mount working when needed.
3. Having a HDD plugged for "ever" will work, but you are in case 1. in terms of safety