Sophie: convirt-1.1-2mdv2010.0 noarch

convirt-1.1-2mdv2010.0.noarch.rpm

ConVirt 1.1
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- Virtual Network management.
ConVirt 1.1 allows you to create virtual networks on a managed server. This
way VMs on one network can be isolated from VMs on other network.

- Add disk to running VM.
For Xen platform, now one can attach or detach a disk to a running VM.

- ConVirt CLI Preview
Now all common openrations can be scripted via preview version of the
ConVirt-CLI

- KVM bridge setup
convirt-tool now sets up a public bridge for KVM on the managed server.

- New platforms
CentOS 5.3 and Ubuntu 9.04 are added to Certified platforms

- Bug fixes
Has a bunch of bug fixes for issues reported by ConVirt community.

ConVirt 1.0
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- Super easy installation for ConVirt
ConVirt now can be easily setup in your environment using native package
managers like yum, apt-get, yast etc. Convirture now hosts the repository
having ConVirt packages along with its required dependencies.

- New convirt-tool
For setting up Managed Servers, a new convirt-tool is added. It detects
the linux distribution, the virtualization platform being used on the
managed server and does the required setup.

- .deb packages for Ubuntu and Debian
We have added .deb packages for both Ubuntu and Debian. This should make it
easy for this community to get ConVirt.

- Certified platforms
Convirture has certified ConVirt 1.0 against number of popular platforms.
Please visit us at http://www.convirture.com to find more information

- Support for headless managed servers
ConVirt can manage the servers without running GUI Desktop.

- New remote file browser
A new file browser facility is added for for people not using or having trouble with gnome-vfs.

- JumpBox appliances
High quality JumpBox appliances are now available for download in the
Appliance Catalog. This enables users to get applications like wiki, SugarCRM
etc. up and running within minutes. Their complete life cycle can be managed
using ConVirt.

- Numerous bug fixes
This release includes a number of fixes particularly in security, storage
areas.

ConVirt 0.9.6
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- UI Improvements
- The Disk Edit area is improved and simplified.
- New menu Item to switch to disk boot after install within VM is done.

- Improved Initial placement
- Ignores not connected/down servers in a pool
- additional check to find HVM capable machines for HVM images

- Improved provisioning script
- Allow for LVM based disks for appliances.

- Bug fixes

ConVirt 0.9.5
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- Drag and Drop Live Migration for KVM :
Similar to Xen Live migration, now you can use drag and drop to migrate KVM
virtual machines without downtime. In addition you can save a running KVM
virtual machine state and restore it. KVM Management is also tested against
common distros like Cent OS 5.2 and Ubuntu 8.0.4.

- Storage management :
This release adds support for shared storage management associated with a
Server Pool. The users can declare their iSCSI, AOE and NFS shared storage
and select Luns. ether disks and mount points at the time of provisioning.
ConVirt gives Storage Utilization overview at Server Pool, Server or Virtual
Machine level.

- Bug fixes

ConVirt 0.9.1
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- KVM plugin
This release brings out the KVM plugin with limited functionality, it
provides basic provisioning and monitoring of KVM based VMs. The HVM xen
images can now be deployed on KVM as well. Some other functionality
like Snapshot/Restore and migration would be made available in the
upcoming releases.

- Network and VBD I/O:
The Network and VBD I/O are included in the dashboard

- Bug fixes

ConVirt 0.9
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- Plugin Development Guide
With this release, developers can write plugin for their favorite
virtualized platform and make them manageable via ConVirt.

- Server Pool Settings :
Now users can define their own settings at server pool, which get used
while provisioning any image in that server pool. For example a storage
destination can be specified at server pool level. All the vms provisioned i
in that server pool will get space allocated from that storage.

- Image Groups :
Organize your images in to groups for easy management.

- Enhanced Server information :
The Information tab when a server is selected, shows rich information
about the network interfaces and storage.

- Summary Information :
The summary information gives you at a glance about your managed
environment.

- Image Cache consistency :
The convirt creates a cache on each managed node for simplifying
repeated provisioning. This version addresses some consistency
problems between the image store and the caches on remote servers.

ConVirt 0.8.2
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- Xen 3.2 support

- Bug fixes
* CPU utilization reporting incorrect percentages
* Linux Desktop crashing if VNC viewer is missing
* Login failure when multiple keys added to the ssh-agent

- Automatic Announcements for Updates
This is a new tool to help you stay informed about ConVirt activities without
having to repeatedly visit the ConVirt website. Whenever new releases or critical
updates are available, ConVirt will notify you by showing them in a "Convirt Updates"
window. You can turn off this feature by changing the setting in the ConVirt
configuration file. To manually check for updates, select the "Help->Check for Updates" menu item.

- RPM for the suse platform

ConVirt 0.8.1
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- Name changed to ConVirt

- Xen 3.1 support

- User defined Server Pools

Create your own server pools to classify servers to meet your organizational
needs.

- Live Migration

This version adds the live migration capability which allows running virtual
machines to be moved from one server to another. The drag and drop interface
makes it a snap to achieve.

- Smart VM Placement

While provisioning a new VM, ConVirt selects the most appropriate node from
the server pool. This dynamic placement help achieve an even distribution of
the workload within a given server pool.

- Image Store Management

The new version allows user to create their own images by cloning one of the
existing image. The image store also has a template as a starting point to
achieve shared storage configuration.

- Appliance Management

This version introduces Appliance Management functionality. The product has an
Appliance Catalog containing some popular rPath Appliances that can be easily
downloaded. More appliance vendors coming soon.

- Import for multiple VM configurations

Allows you to select a list of existing VM configuration files to get you
started managing existing configurations using ConVirt

- SSL/TLS for communicating with Managed Server

One can use SSL for communication between ConVirt client and the
Managed server having Xen 3.1
Note: The ssh tunnel mechanism to communicate with managed server is
suspended because of a pending problem in the paramiko layer.

- Proxy support

http and ftp proxy support. These are used for downloading kernel and
ramdisks as well as used for downloading appliances.

Xenman v0.6
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- NEW: Peformance Dashboard.

Multi-Server performance and availability metrics are now available in
a single, consolidated dashboard. Common administrative tasks may
be performed directly from the dashboard.

- NEW: Image Store now shows in the LHS Navigation view.

- IMPROVED: Image Store/Provisioning Scheme

The Image Store, provisionable image structure and the VM provisioning
mechanisms have all been completely overhauled and vastly improved.
The new system is highly flexible, configurable and very well suited for
users wishing to define and/or use their own provisionable images/schemes.

- NEW: 'Image Builder's Guide' and 'Packaging Guide' have been added to
documentation.

- FIXED: numerous stability and bug fixes.

Xenman v0.5
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- Multi server management :
With this new feature, administrators can now manage the
Virtual Machines (Doms) on the remote servers similar to that of local server.
This expands the horizon of ConVirt from local management to managing a
departmental data centers. A secure SSH mechanism is used to connect to
remote servers.

- Image management :
ConVirt now allows administrators to specify their image library,
and provision Virtual Machines on any managed server.

- Multi-Dom operations :
Now administrators can start and stop all doms on any server with a
single click.

- Server information :
You can now see some basic information about the host in the
Information tab with a server selected.

- On line help
You can now see help document from ConVirt help menu.

ConVirt v0.4.1
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- SUSE Linux 10.1 support. Both rpm and tarball support out-of-box
deployment on SUSE 10.1.

- Added 'staging_path_kernel' and 'staging_path_ramdisk' properties to
convirt.conf. These denote the path relative to 'staging_location'
where ConVirt will look for kernel and ramdisk images for use as the
defaults for 'Create Domain'

ConVirt v0.4
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- LVM support added. Logical Volumes are now supported for domain
creation. Set the 'use_lvm' property in convirt.conf to False if the
environment doesn't support lvm2.

- Create Domain now does a 'sticky' installation. New domains created
via ConVirt now use the ramdisk deployed in the VM's disk image to
boot. This requires pyGrub to be present in the environment. Use the
'bootloader' property to set the correct path if the defaults fail.

- Duplicate domain cleanup. Specifying a pre-existing domain name
during Create Domain will clean up any leftover domain configuration
files and/or disk images after prompting for permission. Use this
only for domains created using ConVirt.

- Domains added to the left hand side list (either as a result of
"Create Domain" or "Open Domain File") now persist in the
configuration file until removed via the appropriate menu item.

- Pausing a domain now removes the terminal widget from the notetbook
tab to avoid accidentally queuing some keyboard input while paused.

- A new Information tab that allows you to see configuration information
about selected Domain.

- Added new menu items 'Edit' and 'Action.' Also, a richer right-click
menu for the domain list on the LHS is now available.

- Fixed crashes to desktop resulting from problematic domain launches
in some scenarios.

ConVirt v0.3
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- Initial Release