Latest News

July 29 , 2008. ConVirt 0.9.1 Released.

• ConVirt goes Multi-platform : We are excited to announce support for the KVM platform. ConVirt users can now manage servers running KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) alongside those based on Xen. This release provides provisioning, start/stop and monitoring for KVM. Advanced features like snapshot/restore and migration will be made available over upcoming releases.


• ConVirt Wiki : In response to feedback from the community, we are pleased to announce availability of the ConVirt Wiki. Now ConVirt users and developers can collaborate and share information in one place. We are very excited about how much information we are able to share: documentation, FAQs, HOWTOs, platform specific installation guidelines, developer's corner etc. But this is just a start. Even more exciting is the ability for the Community to now help us expand and accelerate development of a shared knowledge base. Please jump in!


• Plugin Development Guide : We are now exposing ConVirt's plugin architecture for extending management functionality to add virtualization platforms with our Plugin Development Guide. This is how we developed the Xen and the KVM plugins. We would love to see the Community add support for your platform of choice. Take a look at the guide and other resources available at the Developers Corner and let us know what you think. We will provide technical support on the Forum to those interested in jumping in here.

June 27 , 2008. Help shape ConVirt's Future. 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 click here to participate.

June 20 , 2008. ConVirt 0.9 Release Announcement. We are pleased to announce the availability of ConVirt version 0.9. The release includes :

• Enable Platform Plugin Development
• Server Pool Settings
• Image Groups
• Enhanced server information
• Summary Information about managed environment

March 10 , 2008. ConVirt 0.8.2 Release Announcement. 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

Feburary 8 , 2008. ConVirt 0.8.1 Release Announcement. We are extremely pleased to announce the immediate availability of ConVirt version 0.8.1. This release represents many months' worth of feverish development and testing, community contributions, feedback, feature-requests, and validation in datacenters both large and small. The result of this long gestation is a quantum leap forward in features, quality and, hopefully, the value to the ConVirt user community.

From amongst the myriad improvements, bugfixes, and new features in this release, here are a few highlights:

• Drag & Drop 'Live' Migration.
• User defined server resource pools.
• Dynamic resource provisioning.
• An integrated Virtual Appliance Catalog.
• Template based rapid provisioning.
• Comprehensive template management.
• Xen 3.1+ support.

These and many other new features and enhancements should allow ConVirt users to effortlessly manage the complete lifcycle of Virtual Machines in their environment ... starting from a VM's inception as a provisionable template, through the dynamic allocation of physical resources at creation, on to both live and cold migrations to meet various operational goals, and so on.

Meanwhile, those users responsible for virtualized QA or Testing lab environments will find the vastly improved Image Store, with its new template management features and single-click, rapid provisioning operations a significant boon to their workday.

Finally, small businesses, departments and individuals looking to jumpstart their virtualized infrastructure will find the integrated appliance browser, with its large catalog of virtual appliances from leading vendors, invaluable in getting going quickly.

We are excited to get this release out to the community and look forward to continued community support for ConVirt.

You can download ConVirt 0.8.1 from the Downloads area. Also, head over to the Gallery for a quick overview video of some of the new features.

Nov 20, 2007.xenman-packaging mailing list. We are pleased to announce xenman-packaging mailing list to coordinate XenMan packaging on various distributions. Existing package owners and others interested in helping out with packaging issues are requested to join the mailing list.

Nov 20, 2007. xenman-packaging mailing list. We are pleased to announce xenman-packaging mailing list to coordinate XenMan packaging on various distributions. Existing package owners and others interested in helping out with packaging issues are requested to join the mailing list.

June 25, 2007. Supports for Xen 3.1. We are pleased to announce patch to add support for Xen 3.1 to XenMan 0.6. This would help FC7 and other distros where Xen 3.1 is bundled out of the box. This adjusts XenMan for changes in Xen 3.1 ServerProxy along with few critical fixes. see details

April 26, 2007. Gentoo ebuild updated for XenMan 0.6. Thanks to skijumper (Jeff Puchalski) for Gentoo ebuild updates. Visit the patches area for details.

March 19 , 2007. Several community contributions available. User community contributions to ConVirt are beginning to pick up steam. Fantastic! And Thanks! Recent contributions include a Gentoo ebuild for 0.6 (Jose Lopez), a Swedish language translation (Daniel Nylander), and Custom vncviewer support (Ian Norton). Visit the patches area to pick these up. (We'll be rolling most of these into a consolidated, versioned release in due time). We also have word of users starting to pick off features from the project roadmap for development, which is absolutely great! If you are working on something, or would like to influence what the community should work on next, please let us all know via the mailing list.

January 5, 2007. XenMan 0.6 released. To celebrate the new year, we bring you XenMan v0.6! This is a significant upgrade over the last release. Amongst other things, v0.6 adds performance and availability monitoring, a brand new Dashboard, a completely overhauled Image Store and a powerful new, highly extensible provisioning scheme (screenshot). This one's not to be missed! Grab it here.

November 13, 2006. Project ConVirt becomes a XenSource Technology Partner. We are pleased to announce that Project ConVirt is now a charter member of the recently announced XenSource XenEnterprise Partner Program. For details, see the program press release.

November 12 , 2006. Project ConVirt official. Project ConVirt, previously 'The XenMan Project,' is officially named. 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 under the new ConVirt aegis.

October 19, 2006. User forums are now live. Click the Forums link on the left and drop us a note.

October 17, 2006. Ubuntu/Debian .deb for v0.5 now available . Our first user submitted distribution package is now available in the patches area (here). The author, huiyingkin, is requesting some user feedback before we can move it to the main download location. Please give it whirl, and let us and Ken know how it went.

October 12, 2006. Fix for CTRL-H/Q key handling in Domain consoles. Available now in the patches area (here)

October 8, 2006. XenMan goes beta! v0.5 released. This is a biggie ... grab it and let us know what you think.