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Proxmox 2.2 updates available

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Proxmox 2.2 has some updates which have been pushed to the stable repository. There is no new functionality added with these updates, they are just bug fixes.

Reading the forum, there looks to be an issue with this update if you have turned off being able to login to SSH with passwords and enabled keys on your Proxmox host. It looks like the keys are removed and you will need to login to the local shell to re-create the keys. Updating a standard cluster works fine.

Before updating, make sure all your VM’s have been stopped. Run the below commands on each server in your cluster.

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

Restart all Proxmox servers to complete the installation.

For more information, visit the forum post on Proxmox.com.


Proxmox 2.2 is now available

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A new version of Proxmox is now available to download. If you are new to Proxmox you can download the 2.2 version ISO from http://www.proxmox.com/downloads/proxmox-ve/iso-images/132-proxmox-ve-2 or you can simply upgrade your existing Proxmox 2.1 install.

How to upgrade from Proxmox 2.x

Before upgrading to Poxmox 2.2, make sure all your VM’s have been stopped. Run the below commands on each server in your cluster.

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

Restart all Proxmox servers to complete the installation.

New features of Proxmox 2.2 include:

  • Support for up to 32 KVM network adapters
  • Live snapshot support for KVM images
  • Updated qemu-kvm to 1.2.0
  • New PVE Kernel 2.6.32-042
  • New option for SCSI controller in KVM

You can see the full change log at http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Roadmap#Proxmox_VE_2.2

Take a look at the below screenshots for some of the visible changes.

SCSI hardware selection:

Snapshot manager


OpenSearchServer 1.3 is now available for download

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A new release of OpenSearchServer is available for download.

OpenSearchServer is a Java open source search engine and crawler based on Lucene and Tomcat. The crawler can index database tables, filesystems or crawl webpages from the internet or local network.

The latest version of OpenSearchServer, version 1.3 can be downloaded from Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/opensearchserve/files/Stable_release/1.3/

After downloading OpenSearchServer, the setup takes moments and you can be indexing your data straight away. The new updates to version 1.3 are:

  • Phonetic search and geographical search
  • REST/JSON API and SOAP Webservice
  • OCR integration for PDF and pictures
  • Join queries
  • Video indexation from YouTube, Dailymotion and Vimeo based on APIs
  • Tag boost in HTML parser and data extraction through regular expression
  • XSL support and XML data upload

You can also use OpenSearchServer on your WordPress blog by installing the plugin available from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/opensearchserver-search/


Updates for Proxmox (Debian security updates)

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There are new updates for Proxmox released today for common setups but don’t get too excited, these are from the Debian repository and are just security releases.

After testing these should be applied straight away.

Some of the more common packages are listed below. Your Proxmox setup may be different depending on what software you have installed.

  • bind9-host
  • dnsutils
  • libbind9-60
  • libdns69
  • libisc62
  • libisccc60
  • libisccfg62
  • liblwres60

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