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
UPGRADE NOTES:
- (all platforms) After the upgrade run the
configure-fast-vm
script asroot
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 requiresrhel-7-server-extras-rpms
repository to be enabled
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.
Detailed installation and configuration instructions are in the User guide - https://www.famera.cz/blog/fast-vm/user_guide.html#installation_from_package