# [OmniOS-discuss] [ANN] 0.5.0 of qemu-toolkit released

Kaspar Schiess kaspar.schiess at technologyastronauts.ch
Fri Apr 26 11:56:12 EDT 2013

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    Hi!

    I've just released 0.5.0 of qemu-toolkit.

    qemu-toolkit is a small collection of tools to help with running virtual
    machines on Illumos/OmniOS.
    (http://kschiess.bitbucket.org/qemu-toolkit/README.7.html)

    Here are some of the changes we've made:
       + 'boot' configuration option for specifying the boot order of the
    virtual
         machine.
       + 'nic' option now optimises the virtio driver for throughput.
       + Allows access to the built-in DHCP server for setting IP addresses
    from
         the configuration file. See the 'nic' option.
       + Matches MAC addresses of vnics created; this matters for some of
    the
         optimisations. In the future, we'll also allow random mac addresses
         generated by the OS.
       + 'keyboard_layout' option for defining the layout for VNC
    connections
       + Support for a 'lib'-directory in /etc for helper functions
       + Support for using Ruby libraries in VM definitions
       * Now uses /dev/zvol/rdsk to access volumes, yielding a 2-10 times
         performance boost.

    We're running this in our lab for all kinds of client work (from
    websites to machines crunching numbers 24/7) and have never been happier
    with a virtualization solution. qemu-toolkit is running KVM machines
    without all the cloud bogus.

    Hope you like it as much! Contributions are welcome!
    kaspar

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