Play around without Server (Demomode)

Description

You can can load the actual frozen state of any XCP-ng pool into XCP-ng Center. This is usefull for developing/testing features without the need to have the real hardware.

Steps

1.) get a copy of /var/lib/xcp/state.db from your host/pool master

2.) load it into XCP-ng Center:

• start it
• click Add New Server
• put the full path to state.db into the server field (for example: c:\temp\state.db)
• click Add

3.) Now it loads the state of the host/pool; you can play in limited boundaries with it (start/stop vms, migrate, etc)

Background:

• https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX130396
• state.db is a xml file