How to restore a VM to its previous state XCP-ng

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 20:21:33 +1100

This evening while I was running the system update on one of the guest VMs running on my XCP-ng host, I accidentally rebooted the XCP-ng host. Why? Accident!

The guest VM is very important, it’s running Xen Orchestra for this XCP-ng server. Semi-fortunately, I remember I had a snapshot for this VM. The challenge for me was, how could I restore the VM using that previous snapshot without Xen Orchestra.

How to Deploy Xen Orchestra Appliance on XCP-ng

Sun, 10 Jul 2022 14:34:13 +1000

This is a quick note on how I got the Xen Orchestra Appliance (XOA) on a new XCP-ng server. I know there are many guides out there, and in fact this is not my original content, but I want to capture what I did to get it working.

Here are the steps I performed on my server in order to install XOA:

[14:16 xcpng ~]# bash -c "$(curl -sS http://xoa.io/deploy)"

Welcome to the XOA auto-deploy script!

Network settings:
IP address? [dhcp]

Your XOA will be started using DHCP

xoa SSH account:
Password? (disabled if empty)

xoa account is disabled, to enable it later see https://xen-orchestra.com/docs/troubleshooting.html#set-or-recover-xoa-vm-password

Importing XOA VM...
Booting XOA VM...
Waiting for your XOA to be ready…

Your XOA is ready at
  https://192.168.1.207/

Default UI credentials: admin@admin.net/admin

VM UUID: 19e56589-ed0d-5a24-c845-75b40b344f3b

[14:24 xcpng ~]#

Next, login to the XOA at https://192.168.1.207 using the default credential to connect the XCP-ng server this:

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How to restore a VM to its previous state XCP-ng

How to Deploy Xen Orchestra Appliance on XCP-ng