BRRABill's Field Report With XenServer
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 If it stopped (no pending tasks related to patches), there is probably something that stopped it. Check in settings/logs to see if there is something. edit: you can re-click on the update button. It won't explode. 
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 @olivier said in BRRABill's Field Report With XenServer: If it stopped (no pending tasks related to patches), there is probably something that stopped it. Check in settings/logs to see if there is something. Hot Damn, you are SMART! PATCH_PRECHECK_FAILED_ISO_MOUNTED 
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 Unmount guest tools on all your VMs. 
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 So, before I unmounted the ISO, it had installed another 6. Is it possible the other 6 updates were actually running, and it paused at the one that needed the ISO unmounted? 
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 @BRRABill If there is an error in Xenserver, it stops the update process, just reclick on the button and it will resume to the last patch. 
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 Before unmounting the ISO, this is what is it now showing. I have clicked nothing other than "INSTALL ALL PATCHES" the first time.  
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 Do you ever get tired of hearing about how awesome XO is? Man, that method beats the manual way! 
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 @olivier Is there a way in XO to filter by VMs that have a mounted CD? 
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 We started to implement a way to catch this message properly to give more feedback when it happens (and ideally one day, unmount automagically all guest tools ISO) 
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 @BRRABill Maybe but if it's possible it's not trivial. I'm afraid you'll have to do it a bit manually until we work on that. 
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 xe vm-cd-eject --multiple
 I think unmounts all
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 @olivier said in BRRABill's Field Report With XenServer: We started to implement a way to catch this message properly to give more feedback when it happens (and ideally one day, unmount automagically all guest tools ISO) I can do it pretty easily in XC, but I am trying to stay away from XC and only use XO.  
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 @momurda Yep that's a solution IIRC. 
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 Sweet, I can stay in XO then! Thanks @momurda 
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 Do I remember a bug of some sort where you could not use XO to reboot the host? REBOOT on the update tab does not seem to reboot the host. 
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 @BRRABill Advanced tab, force reboot. This is fixed in next-releasecoming soon instable(we catch the exception in XenServer and display a modal to confirm force if normal reboot can't be done)
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 I am getting ... NO_HOSTS_AVAILABLE(OpaqueRef:e0b425cf-7e9c-76e3-d289-c5dde892e7b6) @olivier I saw your post come in as I was posting this. OK, thanks 
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 Explanation: a "soft" reboot will try to live migrate the running VMs on this host to another one. But if it's not possible, the XenServer exception will be NO_HOSTS_AVAILABLE. Now, we are able to catch it and display a extra message to ask for force.
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 @olivier said in BRRABill's Field Report With XenServer: Explanation: a "soft" reboot will try to live migrate the running VMs on this host to another one. But if it's not possible, the XenServer exception will be NO_HOSTS_AVAILABLE. Now, we are able to catch it and display a extra message to ask for force.Will choosing a regular reboot from the HOST page do a regular XC-like reboot? Or does it have the same issue? 


