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Much much cleaner and readable, very professionnal in look and feel. Great job guys

Amazing guys ! By this way, the platform will become better than ever
I will follow this very closely.

Keep going !

Done

Tested on Fedora 33 and CentOS 8 Stream (can't test live migration in my homelab)

• Fedora 33 : nope at all

  It failed because of chkconfig requirements and legacy init system unit => no more supported in
  very recent version of systemd (here is 246 for Fedora). The officiel RPM from Fedora xe-guest- utilities-latest doesn't have these issues.

• CentOS 8 Stream : way better than Fedora

  • IP addresses reporting : OK
  • Management agent detected : OK
  • Clean shutdown/reboot : OK

Tested on Windows 10 1903 (French locale as usual), seems good too and easier than ever.
I let you know if something bad happens.

Wow didn't expected this kind of news so early after the launch of the project.
Congrats team, this is so much merited

No problem here, RHEL 8 support for guest tools works as expected (tested on the last RHEL 8.1 release), good job

Just updated my homelab server from XCP-ng 7.6 to XCP-ng 8.0 Beta, so far so good. I also tested the new experimental UEFI mode with Windows VM, seems good too.

I also tested the new XOA deployment through the Web interface of my host, perfect !

We will see during the following week how it goes

Niiicce Especially the new quick XOA deployment, that is more turnkey than ever
I will migrate to XCP-ng 8.0 in my lab this weekend and start provide some tests.

I am a computer science student, passionate about server systems administration and virtualization. I arrived here because Xen intrigues me, I want to discover other things than KVM / VMware / Hyper-V, curiosity you know
I'm more a KVM/VMware guy, i'm looking for something else for my first homelab virtualization server, and I discover XCP-ng last week on Reddit. Everything works as I wish, despite some concepts to understand, the product suits me for my homelab, especially XOA. And because the recent decisions from Citrix for XS...

I continue to work on it but the results are not that good. The main problem is one of the main feature, "everything is container".

I managed to start the xe-daemon in a privileged CentOS container by installing the xe-guest RPMs, but only the show of virtualization mode worked, nothing for the network or soft shutdown. RancherOS should work in PVHVM mode by default for sure due to it's recent 4.14 kernel btw.

I hate give up on things, but I start to think more and more to use CoreOS instead of RancherOS, and use Rancher Server or RKE on top, it will be the same and much more hassle-free. Moreover, the XenServer tools supports CoreOS, it's clearly a better way to proceed.

I will give an another try this evening.

Usually I use English version, but I only have access to a French version of WS 2019 (still waiting stuff from MS Imagine ). I can test with W10 and WS 2016 too.

For Windows Update, that was just a XOA test, just try to install the drivers but they seems not available.

Exactly.

• Installation of a fresh Windows Server 2016/2019
• Load the ISO provided by borzel
• Tools installation with the Setup.exe
• Reboot, that's it. Simple as VMware Tools

Some tests results on Windows Server 2016 and 2019 :

One shot installation, one reboot and that's it ! Perfect captain

I will give a roll of tests during the next week and I will report here

Here are my results on different versions of Windows Server (using Standard Edition). I used the same procedure indicated above.

For each system, I update all the operating system to last version possible before installing PV drivers (thanks optic fiber ).

• Windows Server 2012 R2 Core : successful install, VSS seems good (stable state and no error), soft shutdown and reboot OK.
• Windows Server 2012 R2 Desktop Experience : successful install, VSS seems good (stable state and no error), soft shutdown and reboot OK.

For both Windows Server 2012R2, they require more reboot, especially one more for the storage PV drivers after the installation of network PV drivers, but it works.

• Windows Server 2016 Core : successful install, VSS seems good (stable state and no error), soft shutdown and reboot OK.
• Windows Server 2016 Desktop Experience : successful install, VSS seems good (stable state and no error), soft shutdown and reboot OK.

I don't know if it's very useful to test on Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 since the extended support will reach his end of life in the next January. But I can provide tests if required.

I can provide additionnal tests, I will post my results after these during the following week

Try to disable C-States, it could also improve a lot of operations, including storage.

@davx8342 There is a Packer plugin for XCP-ng : https://github.com/ddelnano/packer-plugin-xenserver

I use it in my homelab, I have some manifests in public on my GitHub profile if you want some examples : https://github.com/ruskofd/xcp-ng-images

I didn't try the provider, but there is an option cloud_network_config, you should be able to pass network config as in Xen Orchestra UI using cloud-init.