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SolusVM supports two generations (1 or 2) of KVM templates. The generations are explained below:

Generation 1

Generation 1 templates are fixed size byte by byte images. G1 should be used when you need to create a special template that either includes obscure partitions or filesystems that can't be manipulated from the host node. These include but are not limited to FreeBSD (Unix) or logical partitions. G1 templates can still have networking setup by SolusVM, ...

http://docs.solusvm.com/software_repositories

We now maintain our own Xen repos. To keep things simple we will maintain and update the lastest stable version in each branch.

Xen3

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wget http://repo.soluslabs.com/soluslabs-xen3.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/soluslabs-xen3.repo

Xen4

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wget http://repo.soluslabs.com/soluslabs-xen4.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/soluslabs-xen4.repo

http://wiki.solusvm.com/index.php/Lighttpd_-_Nginx

Working solution on how to migrate existing Xen PV/HVM VPS can be found below:
http://wiki.solusvm.com/index.php/Xen_Migrations

Exists official ready-to-use version of script to create and restore Windows* templates:
http://wiki.solusvm.com/index.php/Xen_HVM_Templates

As stated below, FTP backup/restore solution of Xen HVM VPS also is ready. So, it can be used to achieve the same aim as Windows* template create/restore script for other operating systems:
http://wiki.solusvm.com/index.php/Automated_Backups

Original source:
http://blog.soluslabs.com/2010/09/07/version-2-what-why-how-when/

Version 2 of SolusVM is a total rebuild of SolusVM. V2 is primarily written in C with a PHP frontend, allowing better stability and more advanced functions and features over version 1.

When will Version 2 be released?

As you know this is not something we can really answer, however we hope to see it hit you guys around April – May 2012.

You can find recent news and activities on the official SolusVM blog:
http://blog.soluslabs.com/feed/