Thursday, June 30, 2011

Oz 0.5.0 release

I'm pleased to announce release 0.5.0 of Oz. Oz is a program for doing automated installation of guest operating systems with limited input from the user.

Release 0.5.0 is a bugfix and feature release for Oz. Some of the highlights between Oz 0.4.0 and 0.5.0 are:


  • Replace icicle-nc binary with a shell script to try various methods. Besides being more portable, this also allows us to convert Oz to a noarch RPM (thanks to Padraig Brady)

  • Support for Ubuntu 6.06

  • Support for md5sum/sha1sum/sha256sum checking of ISOs after download

  • New -x flag for oz-install to write the libvirt XML file to a user-specified location (thanks to Steve Dake)

  • Support for OpenSUSE customization

  • Support for F-15 customization (thanks to Steve Dake)

  • Support for running commands at the end of package installation (thanks to Steve Dake)



Fedora 14 and RHEL-6 packages are available for this release. Note that to install the RHEL-6 packages, you must be running RHEL-6.1 or later. Instructions of how to get and use Oz are available at http://aeolusproject.org/oz.html

If you have any questions or comments about Oz, please feel free to contact
aeolus-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org or me (clalance@redhat.com) directly.

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Release of libdeltacloud 0.9

I'm pleased to announce the release of libdeltacloud 0.9. libdeltacloud is a library for accessing the Deltacloud API from C or C++ programs. There are several important changes in this release:

  • Performance optimizations

  • Support for deltacloud driver section

  • Support for deltacloud buckets and blobs

  • Support for deltacloud loadbalancers

  • Full doxygen documentation of all of the functions

  • Other minor bugfixes


The release is available from: http://people.redhat.com/clalance/libdeltacloud/0.9

The source code is pushed to the git repository, which lives here: git://git.fedorahosted.org/deltacloud/libdeltacloud.git

As always, questions, comments, problems and patches are welcome!

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Oz 0.4.0 release

I'm pleased to announce release 0.4.0 of Oz. Oz is a program for doing automated installation of guest operating systems with limited input from the user.

Release 0.4.0 is a bugfix and feature release for Oz. Some of the highlights between Oz 0.3.0 and 0.4.0 are:

  • Automatic detection/use of cached JEOS images (the previous method required the user of the oz libraries to detect whether the image was cached or not)

  • Fixes to make Debian installs work for both x86_64 and i386

  • Honor user-provided automatic installation files better, by not doing modifications

  • Use pyparted to generate partitions on newly created disks (if necessary)

  • Add support for Fedora 15

  • Add the ability to supply an initial root/Administrator password to the diskimage

  • Abort installs after 5 minutes of disk inactivity

  • Use M2Crypto to generate SSH keys (if necessary)

  • Some pydoc documentation (more of this to come in the future)

  • Support for Ubuntu 11.04

  • Support for RHEL-6.1


More documentation on Oz (including links on how to obtain it) is available here: http://aeolusproject.org/oz.html

For this release, Fedora 14 and RHEL-6 packages are available. Note that I have stopped providing Fedora 13 packages, since that distribution is (or will be) out of support. Also note that to install the RHEL-6 packages, you must be running RHEL-6.1 or later.

If you have any questions or comments about Oz, please feel free to contact aeolus-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org or me (clalance@redhat.com) directly.