CentOS 8.1 as a KVM Cloudmin host?

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Submitted by fakemoth on Wed, 04/08/2020 - 08:57

Hello, so anyone got around of using the Cloudmin Pro (installed separately, on a CentOS 7) with a CentOS 8.1/Webmin 1.942 KVM physical host?

It was a bumpy ride on the Virtualmin side of things but I got pretty good VM running CentOS 8.1 and a full hosting stack.

Now I would think that it is not too much to ask to update Cloudmin too: I managed to get around of getting the errors when adding the host, created my own bridge installed stuff by hand, nothing special. But I can't properly run a new VM, nor migrate any existing one due to a plethora of errors, mainly network related somehow. Nevermind two corrupted VMs. Can this be a discussion at this point in time?

Thank you very much!

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Submitted by fakemoth on Wed, 04/22/2020 - 04:39

Can someone provide a proper timeline, please? We really have to know: if your software will be "CentOS 8.x ready" next year, admins should know to deploy CentOS 7 for now; if it will be like next month well maybe some of us will chose to wait and deploy the new machines with a newer OS, one that will not hit end of full updates in 2020-08-06...

This silence on the issue doesn't look good at all, not for so long.

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Submitted by pixel_paul on Fri, 04/24/2020 - 16:36 Pro Licensee

I'm currently in the process of testing CentOS 8 out with Cloudmin. It has a few differences which mean the Cloudmin installer needs to be updated due to package deprecations. However, as you say, it is possible to get it set up with a couple of manual interventions.

I can create a VM using Cloudmin, however, there are a few issues around networking. I am able to access the VM using VNC, so (in my case I use KVM), the guest OS is working.

I can see the following boot messages:

qemu-kvm: -usbdevice tablet: '-usbdevice' is deprecated, please use '-device usb
-...' instead
qemu-kvm: -monitor tcp:127.0.0.1:40000,server: info: QEMU waiting for connection
on: disconnected:tcp:127.0.0.1:40000,server
qemu-kvm: -net tap,vlan=0,script=/kvm/my.server.hosting-eth0.sh: 'vlan' i
s deprecated. Please use 'netdev' instead.

So the commands Cloudmin is running are deprecated.

Submitted by JamieCameron on Sat, 04/25/2020 - 16:05

Yes, the next release will switch to using the new versions of those flags.

Submitted by lorelin on Sun, 10/11/2020 - 11:03 Pro Licensee

Any target version for this fix please ? I would be real nice to get CentOS 8 working as Cloudmin host since CentOS 7 is quite unusable due to obsolete versions of even the most basic utilities like e2fsck...

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Submitted by fakemoth on Sat, 10/03/2020 - 01:59

So, any ETA for Cloudmin on CentOS 8.x?