XCP-ng project
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I bet that there are some quick advancements to make this leapfrog over XenServer, too. Like moving to XFS or BtrFs or even ZFS.
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@scottalanmiller said in XCP-ng project:
I bet that there are some quick advancements to make this leapfrog over XenServer, too. Like moving to XFS or BtrFs or even ZFS.
Anything to get away from ext3.
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@scottalanmiller Yes, good idea. This would be doable to add ZFS support for local SR. I can do it in a week if I have a week free
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@olivier said in XCP-ng project:
@scottalanmiller Yes, good idea. This would be doable to add ZFS support for local SR. I can do it in a week if I have a week free
This alone would crush XenServer.
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I just want to toot my own horn and say that I first suggested this or something like it fourteen months ago to @olivier .... it just took Citrix' decline for another year to invoke some action
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@olivier may I suggest to adjust the payload from "XenServer build from the sources" in "XenServer built from the sources"?!
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@scottalanmiller said in XCP-ng project:
I just want to toot my own horn and say that I first suggested this or something like it fourteen months ago to @olivier .... it just took Citrix' decline for another year to invoke some action
Yeah, but without enough incentive to do so, XenServer was more appealing. Now they removed some features, they raised the common interested to do so. And therefore people are more eager to try it now.
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@olivier said in XCP-ng project:
@scottalanmiller said in XCP-ng project:
I just want to toot my own horn and say that I first suggested this or something like it fourteen months ago to @olivier .... it just took Citrix' decline for another year to invoke some action
Yeah, but without enough incentive to do so, XenServer was more appealing. Now they removed some features, they raised the common interested to do so. And therefore people are more eager to try it now.
Or maybe some of us just say this coming
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@scottalanmiller To be right too early can be a mistake too
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@olivier said in XCP-ng project:
@scottalanmiller To be right too early can be a mistake too
You just can't invest resources without good reasons.That’s why I consider myself a futurist more than anything else.
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Very interesting...
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First PoC is here: https://xcp-ng.github.io/news/2018/01/22/xcp-ng-on-tracks.html
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@olivier said in XCP-ng project:
First PoC is here: https://xcp-ng.github.io/news/2018/01/22/xcp-ng-on-tracks.html
Awesome, congrats!
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@olivier said in XCP-ng project:
First PoC is here: https://xcp-ng.github.io/news/2018/01/22/xcp-ng-on-tracks.html
Great work!
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Good news, and quickly at that!
Question, is your build using the same versions of perl(5 year old release in XS7) and python(nearly 5 years old) as XS7.2?
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@momurda said in XCP-ng project:
Good news, and quickly at that!
Question, is your build using the same versions of perl(5 year old release in XS7) and python(nearly 5 years old) as XS7.2?
Is the plan to use more modern versions of these eventually?At the moment, this was directly from 7.2 and just disable the restrictions.
That may come down the pipe based on what I read.
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The short term goal is to have:
- the latest XS version with "XenServer" name replaced by XCP-ng
- removal of all feature restriction
- easy upgrade path from XS to XCP-ng
Mid-term goal:
- rely on RPM repo for all operations
- validate/authorize more vanilla packages to be used on Dom0 for more integrations within Xen and XAPI
Long-term goal:
- contribute directly to mainline (XAPI/drivers)
- re-unite XAPI into a mainline without license check
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Seriously - this is fantastic stuff !!
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The one thing that kept me from using XenServer at my current server provider is that I couldn't get XAPI to listen on custom ports.
PLEASE make that something easily done!
NB: I haven't used XenServer since 7.0.
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Once there is an ISO I'd be happy to test, I'd be interesting in helping the upgrade process as well.
