Vx Manager 1.6.4

VX Manager 1.6.4 drops official support for VMware Workstation 14 and older. ESXi 6.7 remains partially supported but without live migration. Step-by-Step Installation Guide Installing VX Manager 1.6.4 is straightforward. Below is the process for a Linux-based host (Ubuntu 22.04 LTS), which is the most common deployment scenario. Step 1: Download the Binary Avoid third-party mirrors. Obtain the official checksum-signed release from the repository:

wget https://repos.vxmanager.com/releases/1.6.4/vxmgr-1.6.4-linux-amd64.tar.gz wget https://repos.vxmanager.com/releases/1.6.4/checksums.txt sha256sum -c checksums.txt # Verify integrity tar -xzf vxmgr-1.6.4-linux-amd64.tar.gz cd vxmgr-1.6.4 sudo ./install.sh --prefix=/opt/vxmgr The installer will auto-detect your hypervisors by scanning /dev/kvm , VBoxManage , and esxcli . Step 3: Initialize the Database VX Manager uses SQLite by default, but you can switch to PostgreSQL for multi-node clusters. vx manager 1.6.4

vxctl vm start test-ubuntu Monitor its console output: VX Manager 1

To start the VM:

sudo /opt/vxmgr/bin/vxctl init --db-type=sqlite --db-path=/var/lib/vxmgr/data.db sudo systemctl enable vxmanager sudo systemctl start vxmanager Step 5: Verify Installation vxctl version Expected output: Below is the process for a Linux-based host (Ubuntu 22

| Component | Minimum | Recommended | |-----------|---------|--------------| | | Windows 10 / Ubuntu 20.04 / macOS 11 | Windows Server 2022 / Rocky Linux 9 | | CPU | 2 cores @ 2.0 GHz | 8 cores @ 3.0 GHz+ | | RAM | 4 GB (host) | 16 GB+ (host) | | Storage | 2 GB for binaries | 10 GB for logs & cache | | Hypervisor | One of: VirtualBox 6.1, KVM, ESXi 7.0 | KVM + QEMU 7.2 |

vxctl snapshot create test-ubuntu --name "pre-upgrade" --live The entire operation completes in under 500ms for VMs with less than 10GB of active memory. Create a golden image from an existing VM: