Oz 0.6.0 release

I'm pleased to announce release 0.6.0 of Oz. Oz is a program for doing automated installation of guest operating systems with limited input from the user.

Release 0.6.0 is a bugfix and feature release for Oz. Some of the highlights between Oz 0.5.0 and 0.6.0 are:

• The ability to specify the destination for the ICICLE output from oz-install
  and oz-generate-icicle


• pydoc class documentation for all internal Oz classes


• Automatic detection of KVM or QEMU at runtime (this allows oz to be used within virtual machines, although with a large performance hit)


• Less scary warning messages in the debug output


• Printing of the screenshot path when a build fails


• Ability to run multiple Oz installs of the same OS at the same time


• Support for OEL and ScientificLinux


• Support for RHEL-5.7


• Support for CentOS 6


• Support for OpenSUSE arbitrary file injection and command execution


• Ability to make the TDL (template) parsing enforce a root password


• Rejection of localhost URLs for repositories (since they must be reachable from the guest operating system, localhost URLs make no sense)

Fedora-14, Fedora-15, 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 on 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.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release through bug reports, patches, and suggestions for improvement.