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We are pleased to announce availability of ConVirt 2.0.1 open source. We would like to thank ConVirt user community for their continuing participation and support. This release incorporates feedback gathered from the community over last few months. Some of them are mentioned here.

* Enhanced KVM support including virtio and multiple migrations
* Starting Virtual Machines when managed server reboots
* More control over disk order and other configurations
* Virtual Machine configuration additionally maintained outside ConVirt
* Show running Virtual Machines even when not managed by ConVirt
* Enhanced convirt-tool that helps you setup managed servers easily
* Several bug fixes and stability changes... read more

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We are very pleased to introduce ConVirt 2.0 – the next major step up in open source virtualization management. The ConVirt 2.0 generation combines a flexible, open architecture, the highest level of management capabilities, and the industry’s most flexible pricing model. Built on a brand-new, 3-tier architecture, ConVirt 2.0 includes a highly interactive, web-based user interface, a new data repository, advanced automation, enterprise scalability, multi-user administration, a full suite of integration capabilities, and much more.... read more

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We are extremely pleased to announce ConVirt 1.1.

For more details, please visit

http://www.convirture.com/blog/2009/announcements/convirt-11-is-now-available/

ConVirt Team

ConVirt is an intuitive, graphical management tool providing comprehensive life cycle management for Virtual Machines.

We are extremely pleased to announce the immediate availability of ConVirt v1.0. This critical milestone comes after many months of development, bug-fixing and hard-earned validation in data centers, all of which was made possible by the invaluable feedback, encouragement and contributions from the ConVirt Community.
Check out the following url for more details.... read more

We are pleased to announce ConVirt 0.9.6. This release has some UI improvements, feature enhancements and critical bug fixes. For more information, please visit http://www.convirt.net.

ConVirt Team

We are pleased to announce ConVirt 0.9.5 which includes drag and drop live migration for KVM, Storage Management and some critical bug fixes.

For more information, please visit http://www.convirt.net

ConVirt Team

We are pleased to announce version 0.9.1 of ConVirt which includes KVM support, a brand new wiki, plugin development guide and some critical bug fixes.

For more information, please visit http://www.convirt.net

ConVirt Team

Thank you so much for your enthusiasm and energy working with ConVirt.
We want to roll out a next set of features in areas with the most interest to the Community. Thus, we are seeking valuable feedback from ConVirt and virtualization users in general.
We would appreciate if you could share some information and experiences that you are facing while using Virtual Infrastructure.
For those of you reluctant to share some of this information publicly, please send to us directly (contact info at the end of the survey) and we will provide a summarized report back to the Community. Please use the following link to participate.... read more

We are pleased to announce the availability of ConVirt version 0.9. The release includes :

* Platform Plugin development guide
* Server Pool Settings for consistent provisioning
* Image groups for easy image management
* Enhanced server information

Visit http://www.convirt.net for details and
downloading the product.

We are pleased to announce the availability of ConVirt
version 0.8.2. The release includes :

* Xen 3.2 Support
* Critical Bug Fixes
* Automatic Announcements for Updates
* RPM for the SUSE platform

Visit http://www.convirt.net for details and
downloading the product.

We are pleased to announce ConVirt 0.8.1 release. Please visit http://www.convirt.net to see full release announcement and download the product.

Read all about it in the latest news section of the project homepage. (http://xenman.sf.net)

Xenman v0.6
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- NEW: Peformance Dashboard.

Multi-Server performance and availability metrics are now available in
a single, consolidated dashboard. Common administrative tasks may
be performed directly from the dashboard.

- NEW: Image Store now shows in the LHS Navigation view.

- IMPROVED: Image Store/Provisioning Scheme

The Image Store, provisionable image structure and the VM provisioning
mechanisms have all been completely overhauled and vastly improved.
The new system is highly flexible, configurable and very well suited for
users wishing to define and/or use their own provisionable images/schemes.... read more

We are pleased to announce that Project ConVirt is now a charter member of the recently announced XenSource XenEnterprise Partner Program. For more details, see the program press release here: ( http://www.xensource.com/news/pr111306.html )

On account of concerns raised by holders of certain trademarks, The XenMan Project has been officially renamed to ConVirt (for 'Virt'ualization 'Con'trol).

Moving forward, ConVirt will act as the umbrella project fielding current and future virtualization management tools in the tradition of XenMan. The current XenMan tool, naturally, will continue to push forward without interruption albeit under the new ConVirt aegis.

We are proud to announced that the newly designed web site for the XenMan project has just gone live. It is intended to serve as your one-stop-shop for all things XenMan. Hit http://xenman.sourceforge.net for a look.

In other news, new XenMan user forums are now active. These are directly accessible from the new website. Do drop us a note!

Xenman v0.5
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- Multi node management :
With this new feature, administrators can now manage the
Virtual Machines (Doms) on the remote nodes similar to that of local node.
This expands the horizon of XenMan from local management to managing a
departmental data centers. A secure SSH mechanism is used to connect to
remote nodes.

- Image management :
XenMan now allows administrators to specify their image library,
and provision Virtual Machines on any managed node.... read more

From the changelog:

XenMan v0.4.2
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- Improved the domfile parsing routine. This should eliminate the errors
being seen in some cases while parsing hvm dom config files.

- Added an important note about domain configuration files in the README.

- Minor bugfixes and stability improvements.

The xenman-users mailing list is up and accepting subscriptions.

We encourage all XenMan users to come on board and air their suggestions, complaints, opinions and help us evolve XenMan into a tool they'd love to use.

The XenMan Team would like to announce the 0.4.1 release of XenMan. This is a minor revision of the recent v0.4 release carrying out of box support for OpenSUSE 10.1.

Major changes include LVM support, UI improvements, various bugfixes and stability improvements.

See the changelog for a detailed listing of changes in v0.4

New screenshots and the FC5 compatible rpm are available in the Screenshots and Download areas respectively.