[altlinux-announce-en] Distribution Release: ALT Virtualization 10.2

[Maria Fokanova <fokanovama@basealt.ru>]

Greetings!

We are glad to present the update of the ALT Virtualization 10.2 OS, the 
next release on the platform 10 (p10 Aronia branch). The assembly is 
prepared for x86_64 and AArch64. The operating system is intended for 
use on servers and implementation of virtualization functions in 
corporate infrastructure.

Download the release image:
http://ftp.altlinux.org/pub/distributions/ALTLinux/p10/images/server-v/
https://download.basealt.ru/pub/distributions/ALTLinux/p10/images/server-v/
http://mirror.yandex.ru/altlinux/p10/images/server-v/


Innovations 10.2

The system environment based on the Linux kernel un-def-6.1.85, systemd 
249.17.

In the updated version of PVE 7.4 
(https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap#Proxmox_VE_7.4) a dark theme for 
the web interface is available now. Virtual machines and containers 
sorting by name added. The capabilities of the Cluster Resource 
Scheduler (CRS) have been expanded - automatic rebalancing is available 
when restoring and starting virtual machines and containers to equalize 
load times. The CRM command has been added to HA-manager (High 
Availability) to manually switch the online node to maintenance mode 
(without restarting) - in this case, all active HA-services are moved to 
other nodes, but when maintenance mode is disabled, they are 
automatically transferred back, that reduces downtime. Through the web 
interface, you can add now ZFS, LVM, and LVM-Thin storage types located 
on another node in the cluster.

Stable version of OpenNebula 6.2 
(https://docs.opennebula.io/6.2/intro_release_notes/release_notes/whats_new.html) 
uses the LXC container virtualization system, several improvements have 
been added to the LXC drivers. A dark interface theme is available. The 
new Zone shutdown feature is useful for maintenance activities. Updates 
are aimed at reducing the number of failures - an indicator of scheduled 
actions has been added, display more than two IP addresses in a 
drop-down list in the table of virtual machines, the ability to enable 
and temporarily disable users. Support for the cleanup option in the 
OneProvision GUI allows you to display an up-to-date list of virtual 
machines. Virtual machine backup support is available for LXC, KVM, and 
vCenter/ESX. In version 6.2, the new monitoring subsystem allows you to 
scale up to thousands of physical hosts and tens of thousands of virtual 
machines.


New versions of applications

Docker 24.0.7.
Podman 4.9.4.
FreeIPA 4.9.14.
QEMU 8.2.
Libvirt 9.7.
Ceph 17.2 (Quincy).

More about the image and its updates you can found at:
https://packages.altlinux.org/ru/p10/images/alt-server-v

The new version of the distribution kit is based on the stable branch of 
the Platform 10 repository and does not involve incompatible changes 
when moving to 10.2.

Read more on the wiki (in Russian):
https://www.altlinux.org/Альт_Сервер_Виртуализации_10

You can also view and download distributions of other products:
http://getalt.ru

-- 
With best regards,
Maria Fokanova
community manager