1.7

New supported major OS versions:

• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS support
• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS support

Deprecation of support:

• Debian 9 - ending support as there are libvirt XML compatibility issues when creating VMs
  • technically fast-vm works on Debian 9.x, but I don't have time to maintain it there

New features and changes:

• split command fast-vm to 'fast-vm' and 'fast-vm-image'
• added opportunistic image checksum generation and verification
• add ability to define default password for 'keydist' operation
• experimental support for showing real 'disk_usage' on thin LVs

Fixes and internal changes

• fix HTTP/2 support with https links
• switch to use system-wide libguestfs appliance (by default import one from Internet)
• improve speed of 'list' operation for machines with many VMs

Documentation:

• image checksum verification and generation
• new ansible build scripts in build_packages for generating DEBs/RPMs on supported OSes

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UPGRADE NOTES:

• (all platforms) After the upgrade run the configure-fast-vm script as root user to be able to use the new features introduced in this release ("keydist default password" and "imported appliance").
• (RHEL 7.x) - fast-vm package now also requires rhel-7-server-extras-rpms repository to be enabled

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This version is now available from COPR repository for CentOS/RHEL/Fedora: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/ondrejhome/fast-vm/

Debian and Ubuntu users please install directly the attached DEB file.

Gentoo ebuild for this release is part of following overlay:
https://github.com/OndrejHome/ondrejhome-gentoo-overlay

fast-vm-server role with tag 12.0.0 can be used to deploy this version of fast-vm.

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Detailed installation and configuration instructions are in the User guide - https://www.famera.cz/blog/fast-vm/user_guide.html#installation_from_package