Proxmox Virtual Environment 8.4, a specialized Linux-distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux, aimed at deploying and maintaining virtual servers using LXC and KVM, and capable of replacing products such as VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix Hypervisor. The installation ISO image size is 1.5 GB.
Proxmox VE provides the tools for deploying a fully-fledged, industrial-grade virtual server system managed via a web interface, designed to manage hundreds or even thousands of virtual machines. The distribution has built-in tools for organizing backups of virtual environments and out-of-the-box clustering support, including the ability to migrate virtual environments from one node to another without interrupting operation. Features of the web interface include: support for a secure VNC console; role-based access control to all available objects (VMs, storage, nodes, etc.); support for various authentication mechanisms (MS ADS, LDAP, Linux PAM, Proxmox VE authentication).
In the new release:
- Synchronization with the package database has been completed Debian 12.10. Core Linux Updated to release 6.8.12-9 (with a 6.14 kernel package available as an option). This release includes the new QEMU 9.2.0, LXC 6.0.0, and ZFS 2.2.7 releases (with patches to support kernel 6.14). Support is now available for creating storage based on Ceph 19.2.1 (Squid), Ceph 18.2.4 (Reef), and Ceph 17.2.8 (Quincy).
- Added support for Live migration of running guest systems that use virtual devices to interact with physical devices in the host system. To migrate a running virtual machine to another node, the new node must have hardware and drivers that support Live migration. Live migration is currently only possible for NVIDIA vGPUs. To simplify the installation of drivers for NVIDIA vGPUs, the "pve-nvidia-vgpu-helper" utility has been added.
- An API for writing plugins implementing functionality for creating backup copies and restoring the system using external backup platforms is proposed. Such plugins provide full integration of external backup providers with the Proxmox VE web interface and backup stack.
- Added the ability to use virtiofs to organize access to host environment directories from virtual machines.
Source: opennet.ru
