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      1337
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      Version 8.0 is out now.

      https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2019/07/25/xcp-ng-8-0/

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        dbeato
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        All upgraded here.

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          travisdh1
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          The download link at https://xcp-ng.org/#easy-to-install that the upgrade instructions point to is still 7.6, so be sure to use the download link in @Pete-S's page: https://updates.xcp-ng.org/isos/8.0/xcp-ng-8.0.0.iso

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            bnrstnr
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            Are you guys seeing any issues with your Fedora VMs and PV drivers after upgrading? All of my headless Fedora 30 VMs on my home lab either aren't reporting properly or are actually running in HVM mode.

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              bnrstnr @bnrstnr
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              I removed xe-guest-utilities and xe-guest-utilities-xenstore and reinstalled them from the guest-tools.iso and everything seems to work as expected.

              7.11.0-1 is the version in the iso that works, and 7.12.0-1 is the version from the updates repository that doesn't appear to work.

              My LXDE instance hasn't been updated in a while and is still running xe-guest-utilities 7.10.0-1

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                travisdh1 @bnrstnr
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                @bnrstnr said in XCP-ng 8.0 is available:

                I removed xe-guest-utilities and xe-guest-utilities-xenstore and reinstalled them from the guest-tools.iso and everything seems to work as expected.

                7.11.0-1 is the version in the iso that works, and 7.12.0-1 is the version from the updates repository that doesn't appear to work.

                My LXDE instance hasn't been updated in a while and is still running xe-guest-utilities 7.10.0-1

                Hrm, guess I'll see if mine break tonight.

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                  bnrstnr
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                  The xe-guest-utilities package in Fedora, CentOS, RHEL official repo isn't enabled by default. If you update and lose PV, just run systemctl enable --now xe-linux-distribution

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                    biggen
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                    I see there is a way to quiesce a Windows VM according to this: https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/xenserver-quiesce-snapshots/. What about a Linux VM? Is that still a work in progress?

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                      scottalanmiller @biggen
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                      @biggen said in XCP-ng 8.0 is available:

                      I see there is a way to quiesce a Windows VM according to this: https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/xenserver-quiesce-snapshots/. What about a Linux VM? Is that still a work in progress?

                      https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/1124/proof-of-concept-for-vss-like-quiesce-agent-in-linux/2

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                        scottalanmiller @biggen
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                        @biggen said in XCP-ng 8.0 is available:

                        I see there is a way to quiesce a Windows VM according to this: https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/xenserver-quiesce-snapshots/. What about a Linux VM? Is that still a work in progress?

                        keep in mind that even for Windows, it only works for very specific apps and isn't any sort of universal solution. It is often presented as such, because so many Windows users have nothing but MS apps like Exchange, SQL Server, and Server to quiesce and those have "agents" that allow this to work. if you run anything else on Windows, this doesn't work. Because Linux tends to run so many different, and varied workloads, you can't assume the totally generic "just runs the basics" workloads like with Windows, so people generally don't want this as it would just be tempting fate.

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                          biggen @scottalanmiller
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                          @scottalanmiller Ok, thanks for that Scott. I'm going to try running that camera software I made another thread about in a VM via XCP-NG. I upgraded the host to a 6C/12T I7 8600. If I can't do it with that much horsepower, I'll just go back to my original plan of a single host (Win 10) system for the cam system.

                          So far loving XCP-NG with XO and XenCenter. What an amazing piece of software. I wish I had seen this years ago before I shelled out money for an ESXi Essentials license.

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                            scottalanmiller @biggen
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                            @biggen said in XCP-ng 8.0 is available:

                            I wish I had seen this years ago before I shelled out money for an ESXi Essentials license.

                            Hyper-V and KVM will trash that, too. VMware is great, but not until you are spending a fortune on it for the enterprise features. Below like $10,000 it's really an anemic product and doesn't keep up with the three free ones.

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                              dbeato @biggen
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                              @biggen said in XCP-ng 8.0 is available:

                              I see there is a way to quiesce a Windows VM according to this: https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/xenserver-quiesce-snapshots/. What about a Linux VM? Is that still a work in progress?

                              It works in linux.

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                                dbeato @bnrstnr
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                                @bnrstnr said in XCP-ng 8.0 is available:

                                The xe-guest-utilities package in Fedora, CentOS, RHEL official repo isn't enabled by default. If you update and lose PV, just run systemctl enable --now xe-linux-distribution

                                Will do.

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