Proxmox VE 1.0 released!

[martin]

We are announcing the release of Proxmox VE 1.0 - the first stable release.

Release notes

• KVM and OpenVZ live migration
• Web interface for vzdump backups
• Improved vzdump, now support KVM guests
• New templates available
• Support multiple languages (many thanks to all translators!!)
• Improved installer (use grub as boot loader, automatic country/keyboard detection)
• Support up to 16 CPUs
• Based on Debian 4.0r5
• KVM updates (kvm-75)
• OpenVZ updates, Fedora support added
• Improved Kernel (includes drivers for ISCSI, AoE 6-64, DRBD 8.2.6, qlogic firmware for ISCSI/FC HBAs)
• Many bugfixes

Download

HowTo upgrade a running Proxmox VE 0.9beta2

These instructions should be used for all standard Proxmox VE 0.9beta2 installations.

Note: If you still run 0.9, please stop all running VM and remove the following package before proceeding.

dpkg -r pve-kvm-2.6.24

Note: If you got a custom installation (e.g. from your hosting provider like OVH) you should contact your provider for update instructions.

Review and correct the sources.list. We changed the repositories so you need to correct your list.

nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Your sources list should look like this:

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian etch main

# PVE packages provided by proxmox.com
deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian etch pve

# security updates
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main

Add the Proxmox VE repository key:

wget -O- "http://download.proxmox.com/debian/key.asc" | apt-key add -

Update your repository and install the new packages

apt-get update

If you get any errors, your sources.list (or your network) has a problem.

Before you update your system, you should stop all your running VM´s.

apt-get dist-upgrade

Update the list of Virtual Appliances:

pveam update

We changed the boot loader from lilo to grub, so you need to install grub:

mkdir /boot/grub

apt-get install grub

Now you can install the new Kernel:

apt-get install proxmox-ve pve-kernel

Install grub into the MBR to use the new Kernel:

grub-install hd0

Finally reboot and check if you got the latest Proxmox VE packages:

Kernel version:

uname -a

Expected output (or newer):

2.6.24-1-pve #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Oct 24 11:34:13 CEST 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

PVE Manager version:

pveversion -v

Expected output (or newer):

pve-manager: 1.0-2 (pve-manager/1.0/3399)
qemu-server: 1.0-1
pve-kernel: 2.6.24-4
pve-kvm: 75-1
pve-firmware: 1
vncterm: 0.9-1
vzctl: 3.0.22-3pve3
vzdump: 1.1-1
vzprocps: 2.0.11-1dso2
vzquota: 3.0.11-1dso1

Configure your Proxmox VE via the Central Web-based Management

• Set the administrator email address
• Download the new Virtual Appliances

Best Regards,

Martin Maurer

Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH
www.proxmox.com