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- Virtual machines (guests) stop script:
- 3 scripts have been added for ease of clean shutdown of your guests. They can work with either 'expect', 'ssh' or 'rsh' (warning: there are restrictions with the guest operating system version). It is still possible to install your own customized scripts.
- A new way of editing the script has been implemented and now, newly discovered guests will be added automatically in the script file. This does not mean you won't have to provide the necessary information depending on the method chosen.
- Information on how to implement these 3 methods is available from the "Create/Edit guest stop script" option in the form of how-to files.
- Option added to test the stop script.
- When displaying the guests, more information is provided in the "stop script" column. It can now tell if a provided charon_gstop_<xxx> script is used or if a customized script is.
- Syntax highlighting added while editing a configuration file with vim/gvim
- Information on PuTTY settings and recommendations added in the Documentation menu.
- New command lines added:
- 'vmstart': starts a virtual machine
- 'vmstop': stops a virtual machine
- 'vmconsole': connection to the virtual console
- 'vmcfg': edit the configuration file and performs some checks on exit
Note: these commands work only for existing virtual machines managed by the toolkit.
- After editing a configuration log file (using the "menu" or "vmcfg"), a test is performed to check the Charon log and OPA0 log files (if defined) can be created. This is to avoid specifying log files in folders that do not exist.
- An option has been added in the preferences to disable semi-graphics/drawing tables (can be useful with some terminal emulators).
- A script can be executed before the virtual machine starts (pre-start). The option is available from the "VM Management" menu option then "Create/Edit guest pre-start script". On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x servers, this requires the service to be reinstalled from the "VM Management" menu option.
Known bugs in kit 1.48
- If a stop script is set and comment lines are not removed, the list of guests displayed is showing the wrong method used to stop the virtual machine.
- Newly added guests are not found until the boot settings (Enable/Disable start at server boot) are set when using the 'vmstart', 'vmstop', 'vmconsole' and 'vmcfg' commands.
Problems fixed
- When editing a configuration file with gvim, the checks were executed before the gvim window was closed. This is now solved.
- When starting/stopping a service, if CTRL-C was pressed, the next operation displayed the service status more than once. This is now solved.
- Fixed a problem that did set all stopped virtual machines status to "unrequested" if the license was not found when starting one virtual machine.
- A freeze could occur when starting a virtual machine or when checks were performed if a "load / interface" line was misconfigured in the configuration file
- USB dongle connection message updated. It is now more simple and understandable. This requires a restart of the aksusb monitor service: menu option "Manage monitored guests logs" then "Start or Restart aksusbd log monitor"
- Copyright updated to 2013-2018
Fixed a bug that in the connect to console menu: when viewing console logs errors could be listed and number of lines in the log were not displayed
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