So, what’s the conclusion of this thread? We should not install install xenserver tools at all?
> On 21-Nov-2014, at 4:59 pm, Stephen Turner <stephen.tur...@citrix.com> wrote: > > I didn't even realise we still support XS 5.6. I would advocate not > supporting that any more, independent of this tools discussion, because > Citrix won't fix any bugs on it now, even security bugs. Can't we move to a > model where we only support hypervisor versions that the hypervisor vendor > supports? > > -- > Stephen Turner > > > ________________________________ > > From: Tim Mackey <tmac...@gmail.com> > Date: 21 November 2014 09:38:21 CET > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org <dev@cloudstack.apache.org> > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Should we install XenServer tools in systemvmtemplates > > The big problem I recall with the 5.6 Linux tools happened during live > migration. I don't recall the specific circumstances, but if the VM was > migrated, it could cause either the guest or the host to crash. I've never > paid attention to the specific Linux version in the system VMs, but the > tools themselves aren't supported for installation on a newer version of an > operating system than what was originally certified. XenCenter when faced > with 5.6 tools on a 6.2 host would actually say that the tools are there > but need to be upgraded for optimal performance. > > This also opens the question of XCP and the tools since XenServer tools > were never designed to work with XCP. They probably do work just fine, but > if there was an issue we'd be challenged to get it sorted. > > If the option of automatically having the tools installed isn't viable, the > next things I'd look at would be: > > - removing support for XenServer versions prior to 6.0 > - removing support for XCP (or at least only supporting 1.6) > - having the rpm/deb packages for each version of hypervisor pre-loaded > (assuming redist EULA) and when a systemVM starts having a first boot which > installs the correct package and then reboots the system VM > > At least that way the tools would be there, and we'd have better system VM > performance while still locking ourselves to specific supported hypervisor > versions. No idea what impact removal of support for older XenServer > versions might have on the install base, but I'd hope those on 5.6 would at > least be planning an upgrade given 5.6 went EOL from Citrix a while back. > > -tim > > On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 3:15 AM, Rohit Yadav <rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com> > wrote: > >> Tim, during 4.0/4.1 we used to install a very old xstools 5.6, can we just >> use that and if we do will that cause any (potential) issue since you >> mentioned it has few bugs in it? >> >> Regards. >> >>> On 20-Nov-2014, at 10:23 pm, Tim Mackey <tmac...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> It's the other way around. Newer XenServer works with older tools, not >> the >>> other way. >>> On Nov 20, 2014 4:57 PM, "Rohit Yadav" <rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com> >> wrote: >>> >>>> If XenServer tools are backward compatible then we can perhaps install >> the >>>> latest xs-tools (6.2)? Will that cause issue if the underlying >>>> Xen/XenServer hypervisor version is not 6.2? >>>> >>>>> On 20-Nov-2014, at 9:12 pm, Tim Mackey <tmac...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> From the XenServer perspective, we have a small problem. The XenServer >>>>> tools are backward compatible, but not guaranteed forward compatible. >>>> What >>>>> that means is we'd need to include the XenServer 5.6 tools, and those >>>> have >>>>> a commercial license. The XenServer 5.6 tools also have a few bugs >> which >>>>> were fixed in later versions. >>>>> >>>>> I'm certain we could define a minimum version which would work, and >> could >>>>> solve any commercial license concerns, but what about having the system >>>> VMs >>>>> automatically download and apply the correct tools? Since we know the >>>>> hypervisor version, could we even go so far as automatically update the >>>>> tools should the hypervisor be upgraded? >>>>> >>>>> -tim >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Rohit Yadav < >> rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com >>>>> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> During the CCCEU conference, I’ve been in some discussions with few >>>> people >>>>>> on whether we should install/bundle xenserver tools (and vmware tools >>>>>> and/or virtio-modules). >>>>>> >>>>>> I think we can easily do this, but let’s discuss the following; >>>>>> >>>>>> - Which version of xs-tools etc. we should install? 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