Canonical Announces MicroCloud 3.1 with Cluster Manager Integration
Canonical releases MicroCloud 3.1, adding support for Cluster Manager to manage and monitor multiple clusters from one place.
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Incus 6.22 Container & Virtual Machine Manager Released
Incus 6.22 introduces vsock support for the Windows VM agent, direct backup streaming, disk-only snapshot restore, and expanded cluster and storage improvements.
LXD 6.7 Container & Virtual Machine Manager Released
LXD 6.7 adds AMD GPU CDI support and enhances VM GPU passthrough with updated QEMU and EDK2 versions, improving virtualization performance.
VirtualBox Gains a Working KVM Backend in Development Builds
VirtualBox developers confirm an early but usable KVM backend, currently available only through manual source builds.
VirtualBox 7.2.6 Released With Stability Fixes Across Windows, Linux, and macOS
VirtualBox 7.2.6 improves reliability on Windows 11, AMD systems, and Linux hosts, with fixes across VMM, GUI, and Guest Additions.
Incus 6.21 Container & Virtual Machine Manager Released
With Incus 6.21, users get a new incus wait command, smarter SR-IOV NIC handling, and stronger access controls.
QEMU 10.2 Expands RISC-V, PowerPC, and s390x Emulation Capabilities
QEMU 10.2 expands emulation support for RISC-V, PowerPC, and s390x, adding performance improvements, new machine support, and fixes.
Qubes OS 4.3 Brings Fedora 42, Debian 13, and Whonix 18 Templates
The Qubes OS 4.3 release updates default templates to Fedora 42, Debian 13, and Whonix 18, dropping support for older template versions.
Incus 6.20 Container & Virtual Machine Manager Released
Incus 6.20 delivers new clustering, storage, and VM enhancements, including reliable snapshots on clustered LVM and improved administration tools.
Xen 4.21 Hypervisor Arrives With New PDX Compression
Xen 4.21 open-source type-1 hypervisor adds a new PDX compression algorithm, updated toolchain requirements, and improvements across x86, Arm, and RISC-V.