Thursday, March 31, 2011

Release of Oz 0.3.0

I'm pleased to announce release 0.3.0 of Oz. Oz is a program for doing automated installation of guest operating systems with limited input from the user.

Release 0.3.0 is mostly a bugfix release for Oz. However, there are also a few minor features included as well. Some of the highlights between Oz 0.2.0 and 0.3.0 are:

  • Add the ability to specify the output directory for screenshots (the default
    is still CWD).

  • Add the ability to specify the bridge to use for installs (the default is still the first libvirt NAT bridge on the system).

  • Nicer error messages from the command-line tools when debugging is off.

  • Add the ability to install Debian 5 and 6.

  • Detect servers that can't possibly work for installing RedHat/Fedora OSs, and fail the install.

  • Allow installs with spaces in the name.

  • Add the ability to install OpenSUSE 11.4.


More documentation on Oz is available here: http://aeolusproject.org/oz.html

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

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Release of Oz 0.2.0

I'm pleased to announce release 0.2.0 of Oz. Oz is a program for doing automated installation of guest operating systems with limited input from the user.

There are quite a bit of bugfixes, features, and updates to Oz between 0.1.0 and 0.2.0. Some of them are:

  • The ability to upload individual files into a guest

  • The ability to specify extra repositories to install packages on the guest from

  • Updated documentation

  • More control over Oz's caching behavior. You can now specify whether you want Oz to cache the original ISO, the modified ISO, the resulting JEOS image, or any combination of the above

  • Support for installing Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 guests

  • Support for installing CentOS 3, 4, and 5 guests

  • Support for OpenSUSE 11.0

  • Faster ISO extraction/generation

  • A user-configurable timeout for installation


More documentation on Oz is available here: http://aeolusproject.org/oz.html

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

Friday, March 11, 2011

Release of libdeltacloud 0.7.0

I just pushed out a new release of libdeltacloud v0.7. This version adds the ability to override specific portions of a hardware profile when launching an instance. For example, when launching a cloud instance on GoGrid, you have the choice of several pre-canned instance sizes. However, you can also optionally override the amount of memory while launching the instance, so you get something of a "custom" size. This new libdeltacloud release allows for custom memory, CPU, and storage sizes when launching instances.