The OpenNebula team is pleased to announce the availability of OpenNebula 1.2 (a.k.a. “Tarantula”(1)). OpenNebula 1.2 is an important milestone for the project that marks that most of the components are now in place and functional. OpenNebula 1.2 builds on the state-of-the-art technology for the distributed management of virtual infrastructures introduced with OpenNebula 1.0, and it brings important improvements in the following areas:

• Network Management
• Image Management
• Scalability and Robustness
• Configuration and Installation
• Documentation

Relevant links

• Complete Release Notes of OpenNebula 1.2:
• Download OpenNebula 1.2
• Installation, Configuration and User Guides
• OpenNebula FAQ

The OpenNebula team would like to thank everyone that sent comments, reported bugs and provide patches. It definitely helped to get a better OpenNebula 1.2. Specially, we would like to thank the great labour done by Soren Hansen, reflected in submitted patches that helped to get OpenNebula closer to work with Ubuntu and Debian and cleared subtle important issues.

The OpenNebula Team.

(1) The Tarantula Nebula (also known as 30 Doradus, or NGC 2070) is an H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantula_Nebula