BRRABill's Field Report With XenServer
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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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@BRRABill
xe vm-cd-eject --multiple
I think unmounts all -
@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) -
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. -
@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?
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Should be the same behavior everywhere (at least since we fixed it)
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@olivier What does a 0 byte(s) in the installed updates section indicate?
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@BRRABill Nothing. It means the patch was probably installed via another patch (some patches "embed" previous patches). So this exact patch doesn't use space.
That's a bit strange but that's how XS patches work.
