Maik Broemme has announced the alpha release of OpenVZ 8.0.
OpenVZ 8.0 - Alpha Release
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
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* 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
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* 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
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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
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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 at openvz.org or submitting a bug in case of a serious issue to https://bugs.openvz.org/
Sincerely,
Maik
