OpenNode is an open source server virtualization software providing easy to use (RHEL / CentOS based) bare-metal ISO installer and supporting both OpenVZ container-based virtualization and emerging KVM full virtualization technology on the same physical host.
OpenNode bare-metal ISO installer features:
* automated partitioning and LVM setup (requires at least 80GB HDD)
* automated softraid setup (requires 2 identically sized harddisks)
* automated host node bridge networking setup for openvz and kvm
OpenNode ISO installer will setup minimal CentOS 5 server system with the following features:
* RHEL 2.6.18 kernel (provided by OpenVZ project) modified to support both openvz and kvm virtualization
* libvirt management interface support for openvz and kvm hypervisors
* func (https://fedorahosted.org/func/) client support for central management purposes (in progress)
* VM template downloads provided by opennode CLI utility (currently providing only OpenVZ templates)
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What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Rebased OpenNode base system to CentOS 6.2
· Latest RHEL6 OpenVZ kernel (042stab053.5) with updated OpenVZ and KVM virtualization support and many bug fixes
· Full VSwap type config file support by default
· Initial kernel and vzctl (v3.1) support for ploop and vzconsole
· OpenNode-TUI local management feature additions (openvz vm migration and management support)
· Support for iptables firewall usage inside OpenVZ VM-s (including masquerading inside VM)
· libvirt fixes regarding new vzctl and iptables firewalling
· Support for new OpenNode Management Server v2
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