Thanks, this is much appreciated will do some testing also

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Dave Scott <[email protected]>wrote:

>  Hi,
>
>
>
> I investigated and discovered that I removed most but not all of the
> licensing code L The ‘feature restrictions’ were disabled but the license
> expiry check was still present. I’ve pushed a patch to xen-api.hg to fix
> this.
>
>
>
> I’ve compiled a custom xapi binary which is: build 20719 (the one on the
> website) plus this specific patch. The binary is here:
>
>
>
> http://www.xen.org/files/XenCloud/Software/20719c/xapi-no-expiry
>
>
>
> if you copy that to /opt/xensource/bin/xapi, make sure you ‘chmod +x’ it,
> and the restart xapi it should work. The binary needs to be changed on all
> hosts.
>
>
>
> I installed a 20719c build, installed a VM, pushed my clock forward,
> reproduced the failure, installed the new xapi and verified the VM could be
> started.
>
>
>
> I’ll aim to update the XCP binaries on the website in January to include
> this fix.
>
>
>
> Sorry about that,
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:
> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Spector
> *Sent:* 24 December 2009 14:24
> *To:* 'Vern Burke'; [email protected];
> [email protected]
> *Subject:* [Xen-API] RE: [Xen-users] Xen Cloud Platform disaster
>
>
>
> Vern:
>
>
>
> The licensing components from XCP should have been removed and this not
> occur. I have added the xen-api list to this email so the developers can be
> aware of the situation and offer their guidance. Thanks.
>
>
>
> Stephen Spector
>
>
>
> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:
> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Vern Burke
> *Sent:* Thursday, December 24, 2009 5:05 AM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* [Xen-users] Xen Cloud Platform disaster
>
>
>
> Well, I made the mistake of shutting down my XCP cloud tonight not knowing
> that XCP licenses expire every 30 days and expired licenses prevent any VMs
> from being started (and not having any procedure listed anywhere to get a
> new license). So I reinstall XCP on one machine, get a new 30 day license
> generated, import the pool data base so the VMs are back and discover it
> sets the damn license back to the expired date!
>
> So now I'm down totally. I can't start anything, I can't restore anything,
> I can't regenerate a new license for any of the machines without abandoning
> everything. Is there ANY way to get a new license on these without starting
> over from ground zero?
>
> Vern
>
>
>
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