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How to install Xen Orchestra Community Edition XOACE?

When using XCP-ng and to be able to use the maximum of Xenserver. Xen Orchestra is one of the more powerful clients for doing this. It is web based and runs on is own VM. In my case I am running XOA in my homelab on my TrueNAS server. The reason I am doing this, is that the memory on the XCP-ng host is very low only 8 GB. I will stay for production reasons with the XOA on my TrueNAS server. 

The installation of the XOACE can also be done with a script from Github. The script is well done all the credits go to the maintainers. 


I did a little video tutorial on how to start with the made VM with XOACE (Xen Orchestra Appliance Community Edition) from the same Github source and made it ready to use.

The steps I did in the video:

Login has root into the xcp-ng host

Execute the following line 

bash -c "$(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ronivay/XenOrchestraInstallerUpdater/master/xo-appliance.sh)"

Note:
bash -c "$string" takes a string that it passes to bash. In this case the string is the result of the curl command that passes trough the xo-appliance.sh. Shell script that will download, install and start the XO-appliance VM.

After the VM is started you will see a message with the IP to connect to the VM with a browser or shell. This means that everything went well and we can proceed.

Open XOA in a browser

  1. check if the ip is static in the interface file at /etc/networks/
  2. change xo password
  3. change admin@admin.net password
  4. check if VM XOA is autostarting
  5. check if VM XOA HDD is acitivated in the boot sequence
  6. apply patches (if needed)
  7. reboot everything to check

How to install Xen Orchestra Community Edition XOACE?



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