Re: [Xen-API] XenCenter 6.0 and XCP1.1 RC

[Sébastien Riccio <sr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

From my personal experience, XenCenter for 6.x works flawlessly with 
XCP 1.1 as long as you fake the XCP version to 5.6.100.
Having a higher version like 5.9 or 6 cause the xencenter to try to 
setup the VM.suspend_SR field when you create a VM and
that is not supported by XCP 1.1.

my current setup that works with latest XenCenter:

[root~]# cat /etc/xensource/xapi_version_override
5.6.100

I also stripped PRODUCT_BRAND from the xapi binary.
[root~]# /usr/bin/perl -pi -e 's/XCP/\ \ \ /g' /opt/xensource/bin/xapi

and set BUILD_NUMBER to 0 in /etc/xensource-inventory
BUILD_NUMBER='0'

result:

[root~]# xapi -version
hg_id=
hostname=kiffu-2
date=2011-09-19
PRODUCT_VERSION=5.6.100
PRODUCT_BRAND=
BUILD_NUMBER=0

If you try this, backup your xapi binary first, it's a dirty hack and I 
dont want to be
responsible if you break anything :)

Cheers,
Sébastien
On 15.11.2011 18:23, Corey Hemminger wrote:
> Thanks. That's exactly what I did. Thought there might be a work around to fix 
> it. Would think xencenter 6.0 would be backward compatible.
>
> Corey
>
> On Nov 15, 2011, at 7:03 AM, Mike McClurg<mike.mcclurg@xxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>
> > On 09/10/11 18:37, Corey Hemminger wrote:
> > > When trying to create new VM's using xencenter 6.0 the new release I get an 
> > > error:
> > > "You tried to call a method that does not exist. The method name that you used is 
> > > VM.set_suspend_SR."
> > >
> > > I'm using XCP 1.1 RC on a server with local storage for the VMs.
> > >
> > > Any ideas how to fix this?
> > Sorry to leave you hanging for a few days. The problem here is that the
> > VM.suspend_SR field is new to the API, and isn't present in XCP 1.1. The
> > version of XenCenter you're using is for XenServer 6.0, which has the
> > new API field. Here is a mapping of XCP/XenServer version numbers:
> >
> > XCP   | XenServer     | Codename
> > ----------------------------------
> > 1.0    | 5.6.1 "FP1"   | Cowley
> > 1.1    | 5.6.1 "SP2"   | Oxford
> > 1.5*   | 6.0.0         | Boston
> > 1.6*   | 6.1.0* "SP1"  | Tampa*
> >
> > * Unreleased version; names and numbers may change
> >
> > (Note to self: this should probably be on the wiki somewhere...)
> >
> > I think that your best bet is to install the XenCenter that corresponds
> > to XenServer 5.6.1 SP2 and use that with XCP 1.1. Or you can use
> > OpenXenManager[1][2], though I admit that it's nowhere near as polished
> > as XenCenter.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/openxenmanager/
> > [2] https://launchpad.net/~mike-mcclurg/+archive/openxenmanager
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