I use SCALE on top of Xen with passthrough HBA/dedicated iommu group, passthrough NIC(SR-IOV), and jumbo frame internal network for same system networking. I am trying to maintain as much support compatibility as possible, and would like to avoid needing to run Dragonfish with developer mode enabled.
Is there any plan to add Xen guest addition to SCALE? I see note in documentation (SCALE Hardware Guide | TrueNAS Documentation Hub) talking about guest addition on FreeBSD which would apply to CORE, but nothing on SCALE, and on cobia no management interface was detected.
Looking at documentation again, it seem like i’m out of support scope anyways. Should I even worry about this or just flip on developer mode and enable driver manually?
Thanks for the quick reply @kris!
I believe on Ubuntu/Debian the package is xe-guest-utilities.
Fwiw on FreeBSD it was provided by the 2 packages xen-guest-tools and xe-guest-utilities
Thanks @william - it looks like xe-guest-utilities is actually only in the Ubuntu repos, not Debian.
However, it also seems that XCP-ng have developed a new (Rust-based) replacement for xe-guest-utilities called xen-guest-agent
More info on the XCP-ng forums as well as a repo URL for the Debian package.
Looks to be in final stages of development though, and not yet signed, so not sure when this could be added to SCALE?
We probably wouldnt add a new tool like that until its proven and stable. Releases · xenserver/xe-guest-utilities · GitHub does seem to have deb packages so we will see how much work it is to include it.
