Kudos, I've been waiting for this for a long time. I've migrated the CTs and VMs off of a vz7 host and offered it up for vz8 testing. My initial reaction after vz8 install is relief that the useful and powerful vz* commands are still present. Now the real testing begins...
Jake On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 8:07 AM Maik Broemme <maik.broe...@virtuozzo.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm pleased to announce the release of OpenVZ 8.0 Alpha Release. The new > release focuses on rebasing OpenVZ to the latest Red Hat Enterprise > Linux 8.4 with 4.18.0-x kernel. > > This version is not ready for production use. While we don't intend to > release broken builds, these releases are very early in development, and > not supported for production use, as they may contain errors, and any > resulting instability could cause crashes or data loss, so you should > not deploy this to a production environment. Instead, please try out the > builds in a lab or test environment. > > New Features > ============ > > * Simplified installation program. > > * The dispatcher component is now optional and not installed by default > as are the 'prl*' tools like 'prlctl'. The primary API for managing > virtual environments is now libvirt. The tools for managing virtual > environments are now 'virsh' and 'virt-install'. The Parallels SDK as > well as the 'prl*' tools can be installed for backward compatibility. > > * Supported guest operating systems for creating new containers and > virtual machines are: VzLinux 7 and 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and > 8, CentOS 7, AlmaLinux 8, Debian 10, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and 20.04 LTS, > SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 and 15. Additionally, these guest > operating systems are supported in virtual machines only: Windows > Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2022. Migrated > containers and virtual machines with older guest operating systems > should continue to work. > > * OpenVZ 8.0 Alpha is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 as well as > the 4.18.0-x kernels. > > * Libvirt storage pools and volumes can be used. > > * Problem reports can be collected and sent using the 'vzreport' tool. > > * The 'ip_conntrack_disable_ve0' option of the nf_conntrack kernel > module has been dropped. Connection tracking is now enabled > automatically if required by iptables rules. Otherwise, it remains > disabled. > > Known Issues > ============ > > * Resizing container disks may fail > > * Microsoft Windows virtual machines created on this alpha build may not > work > > * Virtual machine snapshots may not work > > * Network interface hotplugging may not work > > Download > ======== > > All binary components as well as installation ISO images are freely > available at the OpenVZ download server: > > https://download.openvz.org/virtuozzo/releases/8.0/ > > https://download.openvz.org/virtuozzo/releases/8.0/x86_64/iso/openvz-iso-8.0.0-1336.iso > > and mirrors: > > https://mirrors.openvz.org/ > > The source code of each component is available in the public repository: > > https://src.openvz.org/projects/OVZ > > Feedback > ======== > > Each release includes one or more changes and therefore we are looking to > our > user base in testing the new features and improvements of upcoming major > release and providing valued feedback. > > This allows critical issues or fixes to be addressed, please provide Alpha > feedback to OpenVZ users mailing list users@openvz.org or submitting a > bug in case of a serious issue to https://bugs.openvz.org/ > > Sincerely, > Maik > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@openvz.org > https://lists.openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users >
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