In comparison with the FOSS-Cloud 0.4.1, the following improvements were made:
- Installer
- FOSS-Cloud Version included in the installation process.
- Higher Grub default timeout (gives you more time to choose the preferred Linux kernel).
- Network: Changed the sequence of the network user query.
- Network: Clarified the user information by the network query.
- Added SSH login information to the login screen.
- Virtual Mashines
- The two default Linux openSUSE and Ubuntu virtual machines where reduced to a only the Ubuntu Linux virtual machine to save disk space on the installation medium.
- Backend
- The virtual machines retrieve their IP addresses via DHCP (which in turn retrieves the information from the inbuilt OpenLDAP server).
- VM-Manager
- Added FOSS-Cloud version information to the "About" page.
- VM-Profile can be created. Upload of ISO-file must still be done manually, please refer to the Admin Guide.
- VM-Templates can be created from VM-Profiles.
- Virtual Machines (VMs) can be created from VM-Templates.
- Users can be assigned to Virtual Machines (VMs). The user administration is planned for version 0.6.1, which should be release by the middle of March 2011.
The FOSS-Cloud offers a redundant infrastructure for the operation of virtual servers and desktops (Linux and Windows).