Kodiak 0.0.2 will be out in a few hours! I’m currently preparing my VM’s to check it out! And I will post a couple of screenshots tonight! For those that never heard of Kodiak(by Bluebear) before, read this blog entry, in short it’s a cross platform application with which you will be able to manage multiple hypervisors and management applications! The new features look promising!
Taken from the release notes:
New functionality:
We have added support for configuring existing virtual machines. All the expected functions are available. Configuration for a Virtual Machine is accessible via the configure button attached to a given VM object on the screen (Inspector Panels / Map)Configuration of all standard resources is available, e.g. Memory Size, CPU allocation/shares, virtual disks, virtual NICs, and removable devices.
Usage Notes
- Virtual disks are of the “preallocated/thick” type, support for all disk types will be available in the next release.
- ‘Host-device-backed’ virtual devices (e.g. floppy/cdrom/raw) are not supported, but will be available in a future release.
- ‘Remote-backed’ virtual devices (e.g. floppy/cdrom/ISO images on the client) are not supported, but will be available in a future release.
- VMs must be powered off for configuration. While it is possible to reconfigure a running VM, it may result in a host fault that will cause your changes to be discarded.
- If you make changes to a VM that you don’t want to commit, simply close the configure window and the changes will be discarded, (or hit the discard button).
- Support for VM Creation will be available in the next release.
Known Issues
- Untrusted certificates on windows may cause an authorization dialog to continually appear. The certificate must be added to the local store, please see this page for a work-around.
- License keycodes are case sensitive, please ensure you enter them exactly.
- VirtualCenter is not yet fully supported. While it might work, functionality is not guaranteed to give predictable results. We are currently adapting Kodiak’s back-end data model to more effectively handle VirtualCenter’s data structures.