1.7

New supported major OS versions:

• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS support
• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS support

Deprecation of support:

• Debian 9 - ending support as there are libvirt XML compatibility issues when creating VMs
  • technically fast-vm works on Debian 9.x, but I don't have time to maintain it there

New features and changes:

• split command fast-vm to 'fast-vm' and 'fast-vm-image'
• added opportunistic image checksum generation and verification
• add ability to define default password for 'keydist' operation
• experimental support for showing real 'disk_usage' on thin LVs

Fixes and internal changes

• fix HTTP/2 support with https links
• switch to use system-wide libguestfs appliance (by default import one from Internet)
• improve speed of 'list' operation for machines with many VMs

Documentation:

• image checksum verification and generation
• new ansible build scripts in build_packages for generating DEBs/RPMs on supported OSes

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UPGRADE NOTES:

• (all platforms) After the upgrade run the configure-fast-vm script as root user to be able to use the new features introduced in this release ("keydist default password" and "imported appliance").
• (RHEL 7.x) - fast-vm package now also requires rhel-7-server-extras-rpms repository to be enabled

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This version is now available from COPR repository for CentOS/RHEL/Fedora: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/ondrejhome/fast-vm/

Debian and Ubuntu users please install directly the attached DEB file.

Gentoo ebuild for this release is part of following overlay:
https://github.com/OndrejHome/ondrejhome-gentoo-overlay

fast-vm-server role with tag 12.0.0 can be used to deploy this version of fast-vm.

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Detailed installation and configuration instructions are in the User guide - https://www.famera.cz/blog/fast-vm/user_guide.html#installation_from_package

1.6

New supported major OS versions:

• CentOS/RHEL 8 support
• Debian 10 support

New features and changes:

• new compact and compact_image commands to minimize disk usage
• SSH keys are now auto-added to ~/.ssh/known_hosts when keydist command is used
• images can now be exported and imported also in ZST format with higher decompression speed
• list_images now shows also used space by image same as list command do for VMs
• if format for export_image is not specified, it defaults now to xz

Fixes and internal changes:

• fix terminal missing echo after pv -c (thanks to @vashirov for reporting and assistance)
• start of general code cleanup and fixes (based on shellcheck)

Documentation:

• added system bridge configuration
• fast-vm command documentation fixes (thanks to @chhanz)
• contributing document and README reworked
• user guide transformed from HTML to markdown syntax
• PACKAGING documentation updated

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This version is now available from COPR repository for CentOS/RHEL/Fedora: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/ondrejhome/fast-vm/

Gentoo ebuild for this release is part of following overlay:
https://github.com/OndrejHome/ondrejhome-gentoo-overlay

Debian users please install directly the attached DEB file.

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Detailed installation and configuration instructions are in the User guide - https://www.famera.cz/blog/fast-vm/user_guide.html#installation_from_package

1.5

changes:

• recursive scp
• scp with multiple files (@itsbill)
• improved docs (@micharbet)
• improved reliability of new metadata storage
• various documentation fixes
• splitted fast-vm into 2 RPM packages for CentOS/RHEL/Fedora (fast-vm and fast-vm-minimal)

This version is now available from COPR repository for CentOS/RHEL/Fedora: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/ondrejhome/fast-vm/

Gentoo ebuild for this release is part of following overlay:
https://github.com/OndrejHome/ondrejhome-gentoo-overlay

1.4

IMPORTANT when upgrading from previous version you have to run configure-fast-vm as root to convert metadata into new location

New things:

• support of Debian 9
• new actions scp and keydist for distributing SSH keys to VMs and using SCP with fast-vm (@itsbill)

Changes:

• move VM metadata into libvirt VMs (deprecated FASTVM_NOTES_DIR)
• fix output from fast-vm list when using non-English locale
• various small fixes in code and documentation (@tedwon, @nrwahl2 )
• removed the use of sg

This version is now also available from COPR repository: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/ondrejhome/fast-vm/

1.3.1

Changes:

• FIX the Issue #31 where on systems with SSSD central user management and local changes to groups the fast-vm caused prompt for password. Fix can overcome this and warn that this needs to be addressed by system administrator.
• added build for Fedora 27

This version is now also available from COPR repository: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/ondrejhome/fast-vm/

1.3

changes:

• operations over multiple VMs
• output change - relevant parts are prefixed with VM number
• activity tracking - time since last action on VM
• video documentation of fast-vm installation, configuration, basic usage
• various fixes and small improvements in code

1.2.1

changes:

• IMPORTANT: fix the size detection for VMs on some systems
• update user_guide documentation

Update to this version also available in repositories.

1.2

changes:

• allow custom sizes of images allow image resizing
• show disk sizes in listings of VMs and images
• allow use of external networks not managed by fast-vm
• improve configure-fast-vm scripts to assist more
• various fixes since previous version

RPM repositories for CentOS and Fedora 25 available from COPR:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/ondrejhome/fast-vm/

fast-vm-public-images compatible with this version (1.2) now available.
https://github.com/OndrejHome/fast-vm-public-images

1.1

Changes:

• image profiles support
• delete hack files added (hack files on VM delete)
• multi-nic VM removal fix (removing VM with multile nics using fast-vm)
• store VM notes also in libvirt XML definition for external applications (like virt-manager)

1.0

• added support for handling machines with UEFI firmware
• improve error messages and documentation
• fix locking and make it dependent on image block device
  (= no need for lock files and shared read lock for images)