Apex 23.05
Apex 23.05 is now available. This is an app for managing virtual machines and QCOW2 disk images created by Virt-Manager for Qemu/KVM.
Apex 23.04
This is a new app for managing virtual machines and QCOW2 disk images created by Virt-Manager for Qemu/KVM.
Apex provides a GUI for creating overlay files (“undo” disks) for the base disk image. When the overlay disk is attached to a VM, the VM sees the combined data from the overlay disk and the base image. However, changes made by the VM are written to the overlay disk instead of the base image. These changes can be committed (merged) to the base image, or discarded to reset the overlay disk.
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Aptik 21.05 is now available. This is a minor update with new repositories.
What’s New
Optimised Packages
Packages for Aptik are now optimized for each distribution that it runs on. So instead of a single repository and a single set of packages, there are now different repositories for each release of Ubuntu and Debian; and for each hardware architecture that it runs on (amd64, i386, arm64, armhf). Please re-run the installation steps that you received at the time of purchase to switch over to the newer repository.
The repository now uses keyring files as recommended by Debian instead of using apt-key which is deprecated. apt-key is going to be removed in future versions of Debian and Ubuntu (after Debian 11 / Ubuntu 22.04) so it’s as good a time as any to switch over to newer standards. All Debian and Ubuntu-based distributions continue to be supported starting from Debian 9 Stretch and Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial. Aptik will drop support for Debian 9 and Ubuntu 16.04 by end of 2022 after Debian 11 / Ubuntu 22.04 is released.
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