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.

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!

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.