@AtaxyaNetwork This is fantastic!
What remaining last bugs are you aware of?

@AtaxyaNetwork Since I cant get it to mount on boot, I have no idea if there is something special about it (I suspect it just has some existing folder structures, but I'm not 100% sure).

Also, I wish I had Dell support, but we buy all of our hardware second-hand. So no support contract here.

@Studmuffn1134 Sadly, I dont know squat about python, sorry!

@Studmuffn1134 LOL at "ThePlague"... (hackers unite!)

Hello,

I read that you are currently testing alpha stage for qcow2 format (Yes, I know it will be awhile before this hits production). But would that mean then at that time, that we can import KVM vm's, directly into XOA ?

@olivierlambert Hello Olivier,

Any update on the status of this?

@AtaxyaNetwork I tried the same edits, and I received the same errors btw. After looking at the instructions further, Dell's KVM user guide says there should be two hard drives as part of the VM.
First drive is for the OS/Base system, second hard drive is for plugins and any related data.

It does say it will boot without the second drive, but basically wont be useable without it. I tried re-doing the instructions but converting the second drive at the same time, and the problem persists. So I think there is a step somewhere after the ko driver install to help it "see" the second drive at all, not really sure how to fix that.

@AtaxyaNetwork First, I want to say, THANK YOU!!! for putting this together! Legit, kudo's.

I ran into one problem in your article:
"for xen-blkfront.ko
mv xen-blkfront.ko /lib/modules/5.14.21-150400.24.108-default/kernel/block/
for xen-netfront.ko
mv xen-netfront.ko /lib/modules/5.14.21-150400.24.108-default/kernel/net/"

If I try the MV command after the for line, I get MV is an invalid command. I simply bypassed the for lines, and did a pure MV.

It seems to have worked (I can now boot, and get into it).

Second related question: Is there any way to install the XCPNG Client drivers at the same time, so this VM responds to XCPNG commands (shutdown/etc) ?

@DustinB Luckily in this case, I dont need to kill the original, so if something goes wrong, I can always flip back. I guess I'll give this a try.

@DustinB That seems fraught with failure. Have you ever done this successfully? From what I understand, restoring XOA meta data isn't that straight forward (but I've never done it, so I'm talking hearsay).

@manilx - This is why we run a separate host just for XOA (and a few other IT specific tools). But after almost 3 years, its time to upgrade our IT pool host, and it has all new networking so much easier to migrate then it is to run multiple copies.

However, after this re-structure of our host configurations, I might just do that, and stand up a second copy of XOA for this type of scenario. I've never run multiple XOA instances though, so I need to read up on the best way to do this.

Hello,
So we have just stood up a new pool, and want/need to migrate our XOA to this new pool (the old one is being shutdown).

What is the best way to migrate XOA to a new pool (preferably without needing to do this via CLI) ?

Hello,
We have 4 Dell R7525 hosts, each with Dual 100G QSFP+ nics running LACP bonded connections to two Dell Z9100 switches running a VLT domain.
I had to setup the host using one of the onboard 1G nics initially, and then once it was setup and joined to the pool, I switched the management interface to the bonded vlan (that matches my management network vlan).
I can get to the test host, and everything seems to work.
I still have to finish making the same changes to the sub-and master in this pool, but I dont foresee any real issue.

However, I'm not certain of two things:

1. Can Xostor use a bonded vlan for Xostor traffic? (the bond is effectively 2x100GB total across both interfaces).
2. Is there any recommendation against doing it this way? (for production use I should mention)

@john-c - Yes, except pool updates have never worked for us, as some of our VMs cannot be live migrated. So, we have to do it manually. Also, The XO-Lite feature I was talking about, is intended for single host scenarios (which is most common in home setups, where migration isnt possible).

Just upgraded my home network to 8.3.0 and I must say, it went flawlessly. Also my first time taking a look at XO-Lite. Also fantastic! Kudo's to the whole vates dev and testing team. This is a huge milestone.

The only real feature for me that is missing from XO-Lite is the ability to shutdown/restart the host itself from the menu (I'm assuming this is still being added).

Currently, I cant see a way to restart the host from XO-Lite. My XCPNG host runs headless, so when I needed to restart the host, I loaded XCPNG Center and shutdown the XOA VM, and then rebooted the host (only needed when applying host patches). This method wont work now with 8.3. I was forced to use the "force reboot" from XOA to complete the final patch/reboot steps.

Without the control to restart/shutdown the host itself, the only other option is to enable SSH (when the host is headless). I would think that XO-Lite would "in theory" be more secure then leaving SSH open only for this scenario.

Separately, I also run XCPNG/XOA at work (licensed), and currently we are waiting for XOSTOR to come out of beta before we upgrade/test it in our environment. Any ETA on XOSTOR going full version in 8.3 ?

Looking forward to the future of this version and product.

@cjackson The reason the login is just username, is because you've specified sAMAccountName. If you want to use email address, change this to UserPrincipleName. Obviously, verify the UPN in your AD box, but that should be the persons email address if your domain it setup correctly.

I dont believe most LDAP query tools support nested group security (its a common issue). Not an excuse, just an observation btw.

I have enabled Live Telemetry on a host in my XOA, and I get the following error.

Access to file is not permitted: /usr/share/netdata/web//index.html

I have never enabled it before, but based on the documentation, there isn't anything for me to do other then click the enable live telemetry button.

Am I missing something?

Hello,

So I'm trying to set a default view order on my Hosts screen. I'd like them to be sorted by Pool. I've tried saving that as a filter, but it doesn't seem to work (mind you, I'm not filtering out anything).

Is there a way to set the default "view" that isn't a filter?

@stormi So from what I understand, at the moment the XCP-NG client drivers cannot be used for secure boot, and we must use the Citrix drivers.

We have ALL of our VMs using the XCP-NG Client drivers. How do we successfully switch to the Citrix drivers?

I tried on a test VM to uninstall the XCP-NG client drivers, reboot and enable the Citrix drivers install, but the OS refuses to boot after removing the XCP-NG Client drivers. How do I "install" the Citrix drivers without having the xcp-ng client driver conflict?

@Danp Turns out, I was missing the UEFI Secure boot certificates on my hosts. Odd how this never came up as an issue prior, but now it seems "required". At least its an easy fix:

https://xcp-ng.org/docs/guides.html#guest-uefi-secure-boot

@TheNorthernLight I'm also getting that the VM failed to pass secure boot verification. I've never had that problem and have no idea how to resolve it.