Proxmox is a company offering specialised products based on Debian GNU/Linux, notably Proxmox Virtual Environment and Proxmox Mail Gateway. The distribution's latest development snapshot offers a preview of Proxmox Virtual Environment running on Debian 11 "Bullseye". "We are pleased to announce the first beta release of Proxmox Virtual Environment 7.0! The 7.x family is based on the great Debian 11 "Bullseye" and comes with a 5.11 kernel, QEMU 6.0, LXC 4.0, OpenZFS 2.0.4. Note: The current release of Proxmox Virtual Environment 7.0 is a beta version. If you test or upgrade, make sure to first create backups of your data. We recommend Proxmox Backup Server to do so. Here are some of the highlights of the Proxmox VE 7.0 beta version Ceph Server: Ceph Pacific 16.2 is the new default. Ceph Octopus 15.2 comes with continued support. Btrfs: modern copy on write file system natively supported by the Linux kernel, implementing features such as snapshots, built-in RAID, and self healing via checksums for data and metadata. ifupdown2 is the default for new installations using the Proxmox VE official ISO. QEMU 6.0 has support for io_uring as asynchronous I/O engine for virtual drives - this is now the default for newly started or migrated guests." Additional information can be found in the distribution's release announcement. Download: proxmox-ve_7.0-BETA-1.iso (1,003MB, SHA256, pkglist).
