On behalf of everyone who has worked hard on this release, I am pleased to announce the availability of *Wok 2.5* and *Kimchi 2.5*! Kimchi 2.5 depends on *Wok 2.5*! So make sure to have both of them properly installed in your system. Among many features, Wok 2.5 release includes: ✔ Allow Wok server discover others on same subnet (Check: README-federation.md for more details) ✔ Remove OpenSans fonts need ✔ Bug fixes Kimchi 2.5 release includes: ✔ Does not depend on Ginger Base anymore ✔ Remove OpenSans fonts need ✔ Move federation feature to Wok ✔ Bug fixes We have worked hard to ensure that Wok and Kimchi run well on the most popular Linux distributions including: Fedora 25, Ubuntu 17.04, openSUSE LEAP 42.2, and CentOS 7. They use standard Linux interfaces so it should run well on many other distributions too. You can easily grab this release in tarball format or via git: ✔ https://github.com/kimchi-project/wok/archive/2.5.0.tar.gz ✔ https://github.com/kimchi-project/kimchi/archive/2.5.0.tar.gz ✔ git clone -b stable-2.5.x --recursive https://github.com/kimchi-project/wok.git There are also some packages available for download at: ✔http://kimchi-project.github.io/wok/downloads/ ✔http://kimchi-project.github.io/kimchi/downloads/ Go ahead! Give it a try and let us know what you think! Although the Wok and Kimchi development have slowed down due the small number of active developers, Kimchi and Wok are still alive! And I will do my best to keep them going. Any help on any area is more than welcome. I count on you to make it better and better. ;-) Regards, Aline Manera
Excellent, Just back from holiday and saw this. I'll try an install on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and report back. I'll also try an upgrade on U16 LTS from 2.4 to 2.5 In the meantime, who/what org does the publicity for this project? It seems to be the big secret of medium scale virtualization (i.e. those projects that have outgrown VirtBox or even virt-manager) I just turned another friend at another facility onto it. He had first struggled with OpenStack (which blew his mind at the complexity of all the components), then he had some success with oVirt but found it still a little wonky (and oVirt is always bleeding edge, RHEV is the stable, but spendy). He is thrilled with Kimchi after it just installed via packages and worked on the first try connecting to his NFS storage cluster. -bill On 7/2/2017 5:08 PM, Aline Manera wrote:
On behalf of everyone who has worked hard on this release, I am pleased to announce the availability of *Wok 2.5* and *Kimchi 2.5*!
Kimchi 2.5 depends on *Wok 2.5*! So make sure to have both of them properly installed in your system.
Among many features,
Wok 2.5 release includes: ✔ Allow Wok server discover others on same subnet (Check: README-federation.md for more details) ✔ Remove OpenSans fonts need ✔ Bug fixes
Kimchi 2.5 release includes: ✔ Does not depend on Ginger Base anymore ✔ Remove OpenSans fonts need ✔ Move federation feature to Wok ✔ Bug fixes
We have worked hard to ensure that Wok and Kimchi run well on the most popular Linux distributions including: Fedora 25, Ubuntu 17.04, openSUSE LEAP 42.2, and CentOS 7. They use standard Linux interfaces so it should run well on many other distributions too.
You can easily grab this release in tarball format or via git: ✔ https://github.com/kimchi-project/wok/archive/2.5.0.tar.gz ✔ https://github.com/kimchi-project/kimchi/archive/2.5.0.tar.gz
✔ git clone -b stable-2.5.x --recursive https://github.com/kimchi-project/wok.git
There are also some packages available for download at: ✔http://kimchi-project.github.io/wok/downloads/ ✔http://kimchi-project.github.io/kimchi/downloads/
Go ahead! Give it a try and let us know what you think!
Although the Wok and Kimchi development have slowed down due the small number of active developers, Kimchi and Wok are still alive! And I will do my best to keep them going. Any help on any area is more than welcome. I count on you to make it better and better. ;-)
Regards, Aline Manera
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Hi Bill, Well, basically I do the publicity of the project. :-) I've already attended some conferences and talked about Kimchi and I also try to make it well known on social networks. Do you have any idea on how to improve that? Regards, On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 6:54 PM, WK <wkmail@bneit.com> wrote:
Excellent,
Just back from holiday and saw this.
I'll try an install on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and report back.
I'll also try an upgrade on U16 LTS from 2.4 to 2.5
In the meantime, who/what org does the publicity for this project?
It seems to be the big secret of medium scale virtualization (i.e. those projects that have outgrown VirtBox or even virt-manager)
I just turned another friend at another facility onto it.
He had first struggled with OpenStack (which blew his mind at the complexity of all the components), then he had some success with oVirt but found it still a little wonky (and oVirt is always bleeding edge, RHEV is the stable, but spendy).
He is thrilled with Kimchi after it just installed via packages and worked on the first try connecting to his NFS storage cluster.
-bill
On 7/2/2017 5:08 PM, Aline Manera wrote:
On behalf of everyone who has worked hard on this release, I am pleased to announce the availability of *Wok 2.5* and *Kimchi 2.5*!
Kimchi 2.5 depends on *Wok 2.5*! So make sure to have both of them properly installed in your system.
Among many features,
Wok 2.5 release includes: ✔ Allow Wok server discover others on same subnet (Check: README-federation.md for more details) ✔ Remove OpenSans fonts need ✔ Bug fixes
Kimchi 2.5 release includes: ✔ Does not depend on Ginger Base anymore ✔ Remove OpenSans fonts need ✔ Move federation feature to Wok ✔ Bug fixes
We have worked hard to ensure that Wok and Kimchi run well on the most popular Linux distributions including: Fedora 25, Ubuntu 17.04, openSUSE LEAP 42.2, and CentOS 7. They use standard Linux interfaces so it should run well on many other distributions too.
You can easily grab this release in tarball format or via git: ✔ https://github.com/kimchi-project/wok/archive/2.5.0.tar.gz ✔ https://github.com/kimchi-project/kimchi/archive/2.5.0.tar. gz
✔ git clone -b stable-2.5.x --recursive https://github.com/kimchi-project/wok.git
There are also some packages available for download at: ✔http://kimchi-project.github.io/wok/downloads/ ✔http://kimchi-project.github.io/kimchi/downloads/
Go ahead! Give it a try and let us know what you think!
Although the Wok and Kimchi development have slowed down due the small number of active developers, Kimchi and Wok are still alive! And I will do my best to keep them going. Any help on any area is more than welcome. I count on you to make it better and better. ;-)
Regards, Aline Manera
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-- Aline Manera
On 7/11/2017 7:08 AM, aline.manera@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Bill,
Well, basically I do the publicity of the project. :-) I've already attended some conferences and talked about Kimchi and I also try to make it well known on social networks. Do you have any idea on how to improve that?
No, I'm not a marketing nerd <grin>, I am just constantly amazed that all very few people seem to know about it, given its usefulness. Every person I have showed it to is impressed, and that includes guys I know who run large OpenStack racks. Its now up their lab. I did some searching and I found a chapter on it in the book "Mastering KVM Virtualization by Vettathu, Mukhedkar et all" and a few articles here and there. We get the obligatory 'project' listing at libvirt.org. The searchable (i.e. what I found) IBM literature mentions it but always as part of their PowerKVM project and if that was your first exposure, you would assume it was limited to that. So its searchable and out there. Maybe the problem is the name <grin>, If you google "Kimchi" its not exactly what you find. Maybe we could start referring to it as KimchiKVM or KimchiVirt or something. Again, I'm not criticizing, I'm just a little baffled that a project that clearly is supported by a big name like IBM doesn't get a little more love. Obviously OpenStack gets all the press given the big companies who have invested in it, and Vagrant has really helped VirtBox get mindshare among devops people and then Docker really has been hot until people figured out that it IS NOT a VM replacement (in fact everyone I know runs Docker INSIDE VMs to get all the docker "pull and run" goodness their devs want, but still sleep at night). So yeah, its a crowded field. Anyway, maybe if the PR people know editors at the major mag/sites we can get some articles in there like this one. http://www.ubuntuboss.com/ubuntu-server-16-04-as-a-hypervisor-using-kvm-and-... which shows how simple it is to get it up and running. -bill
Follow Up. We have upgraded several hosts and the 2.5 stuff works perfectly fine with U16.04 LTS both as a straight install (onto a minimal Distro install) and as an upgrade from the 2.x Wok/Kimchi/Ginger versions. On a Minimal U16 install, you still need to install nginx PRIOR to wok/ginger or apt gets fussy. Maybe you should mention on the webpage that U16 LTS works along with U17 since a lot of providers/admins only use the LTS editions. On a side note. 2.5 subjectively seems snappier when you have a large number of VMs. -bill On 7/10/2017 2:54 PM, WK wrote:
Excellent,
Just back from holiday and saw this.
I'll try an install on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and report back.
I'll also try an upgrade on U16 LTS from 2.4 to 2.5
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