News¶

Incus 6.10 has been released¶

28.02.2025

Introduction¶

The Incus team is pleased to announce the release of Incus 6.10!

This release brings in an easier way to run Incus on a valid HTTPS certificate, a new way to send through provisioning data to VMs, a very welcome API enhancement and much more!

As usual, you can try it for yourself online: https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/try-it/

Enjoy!

New features¶

ACME DNS-01 validation¶

New configuration keys have been added to allow for the DNS-01 challenge through ACME (most commonly Let's Encrypt).

This may provide an easier path at getting a valid TLS certificate on Incus servers.

Example configuration:

acme.agree_tos: true
acme.domain: foo.example.net
acme.email: admin@foo.example.net
acme.challenge: DNS-01
acme.provider: cloudflare
acme.provider.environment: |-
  CLOUDFLARE_EMAIL=admin@foo.example.net
  CLOUDFLARE_API_KEY=XYZ

Documentation: https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/server_config/#server-options-acme

API wide filtering support¶

Incus already supported server-side filtering for instances, images and storage volumes.
The same logic has now been expanded to all remaining API collections.

All of them support the filter parameter with the same OData filters.
We expect to see the Incus command line tool making use of this over the next few releases.

Documentation: https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/rest-api/#filtering

Support for SMBIOS11 provisioning in VMs¶

On systems with DMI tables (x86_64 or aarch64), it is now possible to seed data into the SMBIOS Type 11 table. This is a way for the hypervisor to provide data to the system without requiring a separate communication channel (network, serial, ...).

This is most notably supported by systemd where it can be used to pass in some provisioning data: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/smbios-type-11.html

Example:

stgraber@dakara:~$ incus launch images:debian/12 d12 --vm -c smbios11.io.systemd.credential:foo=bar
Launching d12
stgraber@dakara:~$ incus exec d12 -- systemd-creds --system cat foo
bar

IOMMU support in VMs¶

Incus VMs now automatically get IOMMU support which will help with security and device passthrough. For most users, this is a completely invisible change.

root@u1:~# dmesg | grep -i iommu
[    0.406474] iommu: Default domain type: Translated
[    0.406481] iommu: DMA domain TLB invalidation policy: strict mode
[    0.534812] virtio_iommu virtio0: input address: 48 bits
[    0.534820] virtio_iommu virtio0: page mask: 0xfffffffffffff000
[    0.637345] pcieport 0000:00:02.0: Adding to iommu group 0
[    0.642755] pcieport 0000:00:02.1: Adding to iommu group 1
[    0.649614] pcieport 0000:00:02.2: Adding to iommu group 2
[    0.656700] pcieport 0000:00:02.3: Adding to iommu group 3
[    0.663517] pcieport 0000:00:02.4: Adding to iommu group 4
[    0.669419] pcieport 0000:00:02.5: Adding to iommu group 5
[    0.675831] pcieport 0000:00:02.6: Adding to iommu group 6
[    0.682967] pcieport 0000:00:02.7: Adding to iommu group 7
[    0.688303] pcieport 0000:00:03.0: Adding to iommu group 8
[    0.695646] pcieport 0000:00:03.1: Adding to iommu group 9
[    0.700994] pcieport 0000:00:03.2: Adding to iommu group 10
[    0.709613] pcieport 0000:00:03.3: Adding to iommu group 11
[    0.715130] pcieport 0000:00:03.4: Adding to iommu group 12
[    0.722208] virtio-pci 0000:01:00.0: Adding to iommu group 13
[    0.728419] virtio-pci 0000:01:00.1: Adding to iommu group 13
[    0.732362] virtio-pci 0000:01:00.2: Adding to iommu group 13
[    0.737953] virtio-pci 0000:01:00.3: Adding to iommu group 13
[    0.746652] virtio-pci 0000:01:00.4: Adding to iommu group 13
[    0.752491] virtio-pci 0000:01:00.5: Adding to iommu group 13
[    0.781052] virtio-pci 0000:02:00.0: Adding to iommu group 14
[    0.791255] virtio-pci 0000:03:00.0: Adding to iommu group 15
[    0.799383] virtio-pci 0000:03:00.1: Adding to iommu group 15
[    0.809692] virtio-pci 0000:04:00.0: Adding to iommu group 16
[    0.820005] virtio-pci 0000:05:00.0: Adding to iommu group 17
[    1.399721] xhci_hcd 0000:01:00.6: Adding to iommu group 13

VRF support for routed NICs¶

Systems using multiple VRFs (Virtual Routing and Forwarding) can now have specific routed NICs land in the VRF of their choice.

This is done through a new vrf property on routed type nic devices.

Documentation: https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/reference/devices_nic/#nictype-routed

Creating profiles in a project through preseed¶

The Incus server preseed logic has been expanded to allow for profiles to be created in specific projects.

This is done through a new project key on the relevant profile entry.
The project then needs to also be defined within the preseed.

Documentation: https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/howto/initialize/#configuration-format

LZ4 support for backups and images¶

lz4 is now a fully supported compression format within Incus.
Provided the matching tool is installed on the system, it's now possible to use LZ4 for both instance, volume and bucket backups (import/export) as well as for images.

Complete changelog¶

Here is a complete list of all changes in this release:

Documentation¶

The Incus documentation can be found at:
https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/

Packages¶

There are no official Incus packages as Incus upstream only releases regular release tarballs. Below are some available options to get Incus up and running.

Installing the Incus server on Linux¶

Incus is available for most common Linux distributions. You'll find detailed installation instructions in our documentation.

https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/installing/

Homebrew package for the Incus client¶

The client tool is available through HomeBrew for both Linux and MacOS.

https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/incus

Chocolatey package for the Incus client¶

The client tool is available through Chocolatey for Windows users.

https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/incus/6.10.0

Winget package for the Incus client¶

The client tool is also available through Winget for Windows users.

https://winstall.app/apps/LinuxContainers.Incus

Support¶

Monthly feature releases are only supported up until the next release comes out. Users needing a longer support length and less frequent changes should consider using Incus 6.0 LTS instead.

Community support is provided at: https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org
Commercial support is available through: https://zabbly.com/incus
Bugs can be reported at: https://github.com/lxc/incus/issues

Incus 6.9 has been released¶

24.01.2025

Introduction¶

Happy new year!

The Incus team is pleased to announce the release of Incus 6.9!

This is a bit of a lighter release given the holiday break, but it features some nice feature additions on top of the usual health dose of bugfixes.

As usual, you can try it for yourself online: https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/try-it/

Enjoy!

New features¶

Instance network ACL on bridge networks¶

Network ACLs can now be directly applied to instances running on a managed network bridge, so long as the system is using nft for its firewalling (can be checked with incus info).

This allows for networking micro-segmentation by having various instances running on the same bridged network having individual ingress/egress firewall rules applied to them.

Network ACLs can be created and managed through incus network acl and then applied to the relevant NIC interfaces using the security.acls configuration key.

ACL documentation: https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/howto/network_acls/
Bridge documentation: https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/reference/network_bridge/
NIC documentation: https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/reference/devices_nic/#nic-bridged

Enhancements to QEMU scriptlet¶

The QEMU scriptlet has been further improved in this release.

All scriptlet calls now provide the full instance structure, offering access to the instance configuration, list of profiles, ...

A new config hook was also added which runs prior to QEMU being started at all.
This hook cannot be used to send QMP commands, but it allows calling new functions to alter the QEMU configuration file or command line arguments:

• get_qemu_cmdline
• set_qemu_cmdline
• get_qemu_conf
• set_qemu_conf

Documentation: https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/reference/instance_options/#advanced-use

VM memory dumps¶

A new incus debug memory-dump command and matching API has been added to provide an easy way to get a virtual machine memory dump.

Incus VMs also now include the necessary additional device to allow for Windows virtual machines to provide memory debug information allowing for a memory dump that can be loaded in the Windows debugger.

stgraber@dakara:~$ incus launch images:debian/12 v1 --vm
Launching v1
stgraber@dakara:~$ incus debug dump-memory v1 debug --format=elf
stgraber@dakara:~$ file debug
debug: ELF 64-bit LSB core file, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), SVR4-style

Uplink addresses in OVN network state¶

It's now possible to get the uplink IPv4 and IPv6 addresses directly from incus network info.

stgraber@athos:~# incus network info default
Name: default
MAC address: 00:16:3e:8d:51:b6
MTU: 1500
State: up
Type: broadcast

IP addresses:
  inet   10.22.45.1/24 (link)
  inet6  2602:fc62:b:8006::1/64 (link)

Network usage:
  Bytes received: 0B
  Bytes sent: 0B
  Packets received: 0
  Packets sent: 0

OVN:
  Chassis: delmak
  Logical router: incus-net13-lr
  IPv4 uplink address: 172.17.200.106
  IPv6 uplink address: 2602:fc62:b:200::106

Creation of storage volumes through server preseed file¶

It's now possible to define some initial storage volumes directly through the server preseed file.
This can be useful to set up some shared volumes to be used by a profile that's also part of the preseed, or as a way to define volumes to be used for Incus images or backups storage.

Documentation: https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/howto/initialize/#configuration-format

Setting description in create commands¶

All create commands now have a --description option which can be used to directly set the description field on the object.

stgraber@dakara:~$ incus profile create foo --description "Example profile"
Profile foo created
stgraber@dakara:~$ incus profile list
+---------+-----------------------+---------+
|  NAME   |      DESCRIPTION      | USED BY |
+---------+-----------------------+---------+
| default | Default Incus profile | 6       |
+---------+-----------------------+---------+
| foo     | Example profile       | 0       |
+---------+-----------------------+---------+

Complete changelog¶

Here is a complete list of all changes in this release:

Documentation¶

The Incus documentation can be found at:
https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/

Packages¶

There are no official Incus packages as Incus upstream only releases regular release tarballs. Below are some available options to get Incus up and running.

Installing the Incus server on Linux¶

Incus is available for most common Linux distributions. You'll find detailed installation instructions in our documentation.

https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/installing/

Homebrew package for the Incus client¶

The client tool is available through HomeBrew for both Linux and MacOS.

https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/incus

Chocolatey package for the Incus client¶

The client tool is available through Chocolatey for Windows users.

https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/incus/6.9.0

Winget package for the Incus client¶

The client tool is also available through Winget for Windows users.

https://winstall.app/apps/LinuxContainers.Incus

Support¶

Monthly feature releases are only supported up until the next release comes out. Users needing a longer support length and less frequent changes should consider using Incus 6.0 LTS instead.

Community support is provided at: https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org
Commercial support is available through: https://zabbly.com/incus
Bugs can be reported at: https://github.com/lxc/incus/issues

Incus 6.0.3 LTS has been released¶

19.12.2024

Introduction¶

The Incus team is pleased to announce the release of Incus 6.0.3!

This is the third bugfix release for Incus 6.0 which is supported until June 2029.

Changes¶

As usual this bugfix releases focus on stability and hardening.

Minor improvements have also been backported, specifically anything which does not require data migration, database changes or cause any unexpected change to user facing behavior.

The number of such improvements will decrease over time within the LTS branch.

Some of the highlights for this release are:

• OS info for virtual machines (incus info)
• Console history for virtual machines (incus console --show-log)
• Ability to create clustered LVM pools directly through Incus
• QCOW2 and VMDK support in incus-migrate
• Configurable macvlan mode (bridge, vepa, passthru or private)
• Load-balancer health information (incus network load-balancer info)
• External interfaces in OVN networks (support for bridge.external_interfaces)
• Parallel cluster evacuation/restore (on systems with large number of CPUs)
• Introduction of incus webui as a quick way to access the web interface
• Automatic cluster re-balancing
• Partial instance/volume refresh (incus copy --refresh-exclude-older --refresh)
• Configurable columns, formatting and refresh time in incus top
• Support for DHCP ranges in OVN (ipv4.dhcp.ranges)
• Support for changing the backing interface of a managed physical network
• Extended QEMU scriptlet (additional functions)
• New log file for QEMU QMP traffic (qemu.qmp.log)
• New get_instances_count function available in placement scriptlet
• Support for --format in incus admin sql
• Storage live migration for virtual machines
• New authorization scriptlet as an alternative to OpenFGA
• API to retrieve console screenshots
• Configurable initial owner for custom storage volumes (initial.uid, initial.gid, initial.mode)
• Image alias reuse on import (incus image import --reuse --alias)
• New incus-simplestreams prune command
• Console access locking (incus console --force to override)

The full list of commits is available below:

Support and upgrade¶

The Incus 6.0 branch is supported until June 2029. It's always strongly recommended to keep up and run the latest LTS bugfix release.

Downloads¶

• Main release tarball: incus-6.0.3.tar.xz
• GPG signature: incus-6.0.3.tar.xz.asc

Thanks¶

This LTS release update was made possible thanks to funding provided by the Sovereign Tech Fund (now part of the Sovereign Tech Agency).

[quote]
The Sovereign Tech Fund supports the development, improvement, and maintenance of open digital infrastructure. Its goal is to sustainably strengthen the open source ecosystem, focusing on security, resilience, technological diversity, and the people behind the code.
[/quote]

Find out more at: https://www.sovereign.tech

Incus 6.8 has been released¶

13.12.2024

Introduction¶

The Incus team is pleased to announce the release of Incus 6.8!

This is the last release for 2024 but it still packs a punch with a bunch of VM related improvements, including the ability to move a running VM between storage pools, a new authorization backend, improvements to volume handling for application containers and more.

As usual, you can try it for yourself online: https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/try-it/

Happy holidays!

New features¶

Storage live migration for VMs¶

It's now possible to move a VM between storage pools while it's running.
Note however that for this to work, the VM must also be moved to another server within a cluster, that's needed to avoid having two instances of QEMU for the same VM running on any one server during the migration

Moving from one pool to another can be done with:

incus move NAME --storage NEW-POOL --target ANOTHER-SERVER

Authorization scriptlet¶

A new authorization control method has been introduced in the form of an authorization scriptlet.
This allows for custom built-in authorization control which can be combined with TLS or OIDC authentication.

Documentation: https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/authorization/#scriptlet-authorization

Console screenshots for VMs¶

To make it easier to develop GUI or WebUI clients for Incus, we now have an easy way to get a one off screenshot of VM VGA consoles.

Doing so has the advantage of being pretty lightweight and can be done even when a user is currently connected to the VGA console.

To get a PNG screenshot of a VM, just hit GET /1.0/instances/NAME/console?type=vga

Initial owner and mode for custom storage volumes¶

To make it easier to create custom storage volumes used for storage of OCI containers data, a few new custom storage volume configuration options have been added:

• initial.uid
• initial.gid
• initial.mode

Those can be passed at volume creation time and as the name imply, will set the initial values for the uid, gid and mode of the root directory within that volume.

Example:

incus storage volume create default my-volume size=5GiB initial.uid=1000 initial.gid=1000 initial.mode=0700

Small updates to the OpenFGA model¶

The OpenFGA access model has been slightly tweaked with this release.

The initial permission of user:* viewer server:incus which was allowing basic read-only access to global resources for any authenticated user has now been replaced by the equivalent user:* authenticated server:incus.

And in turn the viewer permission can now directly be assigned to users and grants full server-wide read-only access (not just global resources).

The permission will automatically get updated on update.

Additionally a new can_view_sensitive entitlement has been added which allows controlling who can read sensitive configuration like the server configuration.

Image alias reuse on import¶

Similar to what's been around in incus publish, it's now possible to run incus image import --reuse --alias ALIAS image.tar.xz to have the image imported and have it replace the image identified by the alias ALIAS.

New incus-simplestreams prune command¶

A new incus-simplestreams prune command has been added to keep simplestreams image servers clean. When run it will identify and cleanup:

• Image files that don't belong to any image in the index
• Index entries for which image files are missing
• Older index entries (defaults to keeping the previous 2 images)

Console access locking¶

Console access has always been limited to a single user at a time.
Previously whoever would connect last would take over any existing session.

As this was often the source of some surprise and issues, console access is now under a lock. Connecting when a session is already active results in an error which can be overriden with the force flag.

Example:

incus console remote-server:windows-2022 --force

Complete changelog¶

Here is a complete list of all changes in this release:

Documentation¶

The Incus documentation can be found at:
https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/

Packages¶

There are no official Incus packages as Incus upstream only releases regular release tarballs. Below are some available options to get Incus up and running.

Installing the Incus server on Linux¶

Incus is available for most common Linux distributions. You'll find detailed installation instructions in our documentation.

https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/installing/

Homebrew package for the Incus client¶

The client tool is available through HomeBrew for both Linux and MacOS.

https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/incus

Chocolatey package for the Incus client¶

The client tool is available through Chocolatey for Windows users.

https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/incus/6.8.0

Winget package for the Incus client¶

The client tool is also available through Winget for Windows users.

https://winstall.app/apps/LinuxContainers.Incus

Support¶

Monthly feature releases are only supported up until the next release comes out. Users needing a longer support length and less frequent changes should consider using Incus 6.0 LTS instead.

Community support is provided at: https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org
Commercial support is available through: https://zabbly.com/incus
Bugs can be reported at: https://github.com/lxc/incus/issues

Incus 6.7 has been released¶

15.11.2024

Introduction¶

The Incus team is pleased to announce the release of Incus 6.7!

This is another one of those pretty well rounded releases with new features and improvements for everyone from standalone users to those running a small homelab all the way to large scale cluster users, there's something for everyone!

As usual, you can try it for yourself online: https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/try-it/

Enjoy!

New features¶

Easy access to the Incus web interface¶

A frequent source of frustration for our users have been about how to access the Incus web UI.

That's because out of the box, Incus doesn't listen on the network at all, then once configured to listen on the network, it only does so over HTTPS and unless running in an environment with a central OpenID Connect authentication server, it only authenticates through TLS client certificates.

It's certainly possible to make it work, but the process would normally look like:

1) Enable Incus to listen on the network
2) Access Incus from a web browser
3) Dismiss the certificate warning
4) Generate a client certificate from within the browser
5) Trust the public half through the Incus CLI
6) Import the public+private keypair into the browser as a user certificate
7) Reload the browser and hope it properly authenticates with that user certificate

Now there is a significantly simpler alternative to all that which still provides much of the same security, just run incus webui.

Running that command causes the Incus client tool to run a small HTTP web server on a random port of the loopback device. Access to that web server is limited to a unique token, used to prevent another user or piece of software on the system from interacting with Incus without authorization, when presented the correct token, all further interactions are proxied through to the Incus server using the same credentials as the client tool.

Automatic cluster re-balancing¶

With Incus clusters supporting VM live-migration, having pretty flexible scheduling/placement logic and the ability to automatically heal when a server goes down, the next logic piece was to add the ability for automatic re-balancing of the cluster.

This is now possible and can be configured through a few new configuration keys:

• cluster.rebalance.batch controls how many instances to relocate during one round
• cluster.rebalance.cooldown controls how long to wait before an instance can be moved again
• cluster.rebalance.interval controls how often to consider relocating instances
• cluster.rebalance.threshold controls how much difference (in percent) of estimated load difference is needed between two servers to trigger a re-balancing

Incus effectively calculates a score for each server within the cluster, then compares the one with the highest score to the one with the lowest score, if the difference exceeds the threshold, then a number of instances will be moved between the two.

The score is currently based on the server's 1min load average adjusted for the number of CPUs on the system and how much memory is available.

Only live-migratable virtual machines are moved and only when they meet all migration requirements both as far as their configuration and any restrictions applied to them in their project.

Documentation: https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/howto/cluster_manage/#cluster-re-balancing

DHCP renewal for OCI containers¶

A somewhat common issue with running OCI containers on Incus has been related to network configuration. OCI containers generally don't perform their own network configuration, they expect to start up and find a fully configured network stack (address, route, DNS).

To make that work, Incus has been running a small DHCP client during the instance initialization stage, setting up the networking. However this was a one-time process, leading to issues such as DNS records expiring when the DHCP lease would go un-renewed.

Starting with Incus 6.7, the DHCP client now goes into the background and joins the container, allowing it to handle lease renewal, avoiding such issues.

Partial instance/volume refresh¶

A commonly used feature for Incus instance backups is to use copy --refresh, this effectively has Incus compare the source and target instances, transferring any missing snapshots to the target before also synchronizing the current state.

This works quite well but there are cases where it makes sense to do some cleanup on the backup server and delete some of those snapshots. Unfortunately, the next refresh would then bring back anything that was deleted, even if those were older snapshots that didn't make much sense to keep around.

One solution to that is of course to go and delete the snapshots on the source, but there are cases where the source would like to hold on to those snapshots, effectively keeping more history than the backup server.

To accommodate that, a new --refresh-exclude-older flag has been added which when passed in combination with --refresh, will look for the most recent shared snapshot and only transfer any snapshots created after that point, effectively ignoring any missing older snapshots on the target.

Configurable columns, formatting and refresh time for incus top¶

incus top now joins a long list of commands in supporting --format and --columns, allowing to customize how and what to render.

Additionally, it also gets a --refresh flag to configure how often to refresh the output.

Support for DHCP address ranges on OVN networks¶

The ipv4.dhcp.ranges configuration option now also applies to OVN networks.

This allows for having just a subset of the network subnet be used for dynamic IP allocation, leaving the rest reserved for static IP assignments or for other uses.

Changing of parent device for physical networks¶

It's now possible to change the value of the parent property on a managed network of type physical. This allows for moving an OVN uplink network to a different device as sometimes may happen when the physical network is reconfigured or physical network interfaces are replaced.

Additional QMP helpers in QEMU scriptlet¶

A number of additional functions are now available to the QEMU scriptlet.

This includes a new run_command which is a convenience wrapper around run_qmp and makes it easier to run a simple command

As well as simple wrappers for the following commands:

• blockdev_add
• blockdev_del
• chardev_add
• chardev_change
• chardev_remove
• device_add
• device_del
• netdev_add
• netdev_del
• object_add
• object_del
• qom_get
• qom_list
• qom_set

New log file for QEMU QMP commands¶

A new qemu.qmp.log file is now available on virtual-machines and keeps a log of most interactions between Incus and QEMU.

root@castiana:~# incus list v1
+------+---------+-----------------------+-------------------------------------------------+-----------------+-----------+
| NAME |  STATE  |         IPV4          |                      IPV6                       |      TYPE       | SNAPSHOTS |
+------+---------+-----------------------+-------------------------------------------------+-----------------+-----------+
| v1   | RUNNING | 10.178.240.4 (enp5s0) | fd42:8384:a6f8:63a0:216:3eff:fe4d:5cad (enp5s0) | VIRTUAL-MACHINE | 0         |
+------+---------+-----------------------+-------------------------------------------------+-----------------+-----------+
root@castiana:~# cat /var/log/incus/v1/qemu.qmp.log 
[2024-11-15T13:11:52-05:00] QUERY: {"execute":"query-cpus-fast"}
[2024-11-15T13:11:52-05:00] REPLY: {"return": [{"thread-id": 443303, "props": {"core-id": 0, "thread-id": 0, "node-id": 0, "socket-id": 0}, "qom-path": "/machine/unattached/device[0]", "cpu-index": 0, "target": "x86_64"}]}

[2024-11-15T13:11:52-05:00] QUERY: {"execute":"netdev_add","arguments":{"fds":"/dev/net/tun.0:/dev/net/tun.1","id":"incus_eth0","type":"tap","vhost":true,"vhostfds":"/dev/vhost-net.0:/dev/vhost-net.1"}}
[2024-11-15T13:11:52-05:00] REPLY: {"return": {}}

[2024-11-15T13:11:52-05:00] QUERY: {"execute":"device_add","arguments":{"addr":"00.0","bootindex":"1","bus":"qemu_pcie4","driver":"virtio-net-pci","id":"dev-incus_eth0","mac":"00:16:3e:4d:5c:ad","mq":"on","netdev":"incus_eth0","vectors":"6"}}
[2024-11-15T13:11:52-05:00] REPLY: {"return": {}}

[2024-11-15T13:11:52-05:00] QUERY: {"execute":"blockdev-add","arguments":{"aio":"native","cache":{"direct":true,"no-flush":false},"discard":"unmap","driver":"host_device","filename":"/dev/fdset/0","locking":"off","node-name":"incus_root","read-only":false}}
[2024-11-15T13:11:52-05:00] REPLY: {"return": {}}

[2024-11-15T13:11:52-05:00] QUERY: {"execute":"device_add","arguments":{"bootindex":"0","bus":"qemu_scsi.0","channel":"0","drive":"incus_root","driver":"scsi-hd","id":"dev-incus_root","lun":"1","serial":"incus_root"}}
[2024-11-15T13:11:52-05:00] REPLY: {"return": {}}

[2024-11-15T13:11:52-05:00] QUERY: {"execute":"system_reset"}
[2024-11-15T13:11:52-05:00] REPLY: {"return": {}}

[2024-11-15T13:11:52-05:00] QUERY: {"execute":"set-action","arguments":{"panic":"pause","reboot":"shutdown","shutdown":"poweroff"}}
[2024-11-15T13:11:52-05:00] REPLY: {"return": {}}

[2024-11-15T13:11:52-05:00] QUERY: {"execute":"cont"}
[2024-11-15T13:11:52-05:00] REPLY: {"return": {}}

[2024-11-15T13:11:52-05:00] QUERY: {"execute":"query-status"}
[2024-11-15T13:11:52-05:00] REPLY: {"return": {"status": "running", "running": true}}

New get_instances_count command for placement scriptlet¶

A new get_instances_count function was added to the placement scriptlet.

This can be used to get a quick count of the number of instances in total, or within a project/location combination. It can also be made to include instances currently being created rather than just those that are already fully created.

As part of this addition, a small change was also made to the list of candidates provided to the scriptlet, the candidate list is now sorted based on the total number of instances that they hold (from least to most busy).

Support of --format in incus admin sql¶

incus admin sql now supports the usual --format option.

This is particularly useful when querying a single SQL column and using --format=csv as this then allows getting the raw value in a format already usable within scripts.

Complete changelog¶

Here is a complete list of all changes in this release:

Documentation¶

The Incus documentation can be found at:
https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/

Packages¶

There are no official Incus packages as Incus upstream only releases regular release tarballs. Below are some available options to get Incus up and running.

Installing the Incus server on Linux¶

Incus is available for most common Linux distributions. You'll find detailed installation instructions in our documentation.

https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/installing/

Homebrew package for the Incus client¶

The client tool is available through HomeBrew for both Linux and MacOS.

https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/incus

Chocolatey package for the Incus client¶

The client tool is available through Chocolatey for Windows users.

https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/incus/6.7.0

Winget package for the Incus client¶

The client tool is also available through Winget for Windows users.

https://winstall.app/apps/LinuxContainers.Incus

Support¶

Monthly feature releases are only supported up until the next release comes out. Users needing a longer support length and less frequent changes should consider using Incus 6.0 LTS instead.

Community support is provided at: https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org
Commercial support is available through: https://zabbly.com/incus
Bugs can be reported at: https://github.com/lxc/incus/issues

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