Oz 0.9.0 release

I'm pleased to announce release 0.9.0 of Oz. Oz is a program for doing automated installation of guest operating systems with limited input from the user.  Release 0.9.0 is a (long overdue) bugfix and feature release for Oz. Some of the highlights between Oz 0.8.0 and 0.9.0 are:

• Easier to create Debian/Ubuntu packages
• Ability to specify the disk size in the TDL
• Ability to specify the number of CPUs and amount of memory used for the installation VM
• Cleanup and bugfixes to oz-cleanup-cache
• Ability to install Fedora-17 disk images
• Ability to install guests as a non-root user.  This has several caveats; please see the documentation on http://github.com/clalancette/oz for more information
• Ability to install RHEL-6.3 disk images
• Ability to install ScientificLinuxCERN disk images
• Ability to install Mandrake 8.2 disk images
• Ability to install OpenSUSE 10.3 disk images
• Ability to install Ubuntu 12.04 disk images

A tarball of this release is available, as well as packages for Fedora-16. Instructions on how to get and use Oz are available at http://github.com/clalancette/oz .

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

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

Oz 0.8.0 released

(this is a little delayed; sorry about that)

I'm pleased to announce release 0.8.0 of Oz. Oz is a program for doing automated installation of guest operating systems with limited input from the user.

Release 0.8.0 is a (long overdue) bugfix and feature release for Oz. Some of the highlights between Oz 0.7.0 and 0.8.0 are:

• Optional virtualenv make target


• Conversion of unittests to py.test


• Replace mkisofs with genisoimage


• Debian package


• Ability to change the root password for Debian installs


• Add unittests for ozutil


• Add some unittests for the Guest object


• SSH tunnel (with SSL vhost) support for local repositories (mostly useful for imagefactory)


• Add a new manpage for oz-examples


• Make the output filename configurable with a command-line option to oz-install


• Monitor both network and disk activity when looking for guest activity


• Support for installing Ubuntu 11.10


• Support for SSL certificates for repositories


• Support for an optional version in the TDL


• Support for installling Mandrake 9.1, 9.2, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2


• Support for installing Mandriva 2006.0, 2007.0, 2008.0


• Support for Ubuntu customization


• Support for installing RHEL 6.2

A tarball of this release is available, as well as packages for Fedora-15. 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 (clalancette@gmail.com) directly.

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