Orka Engine 3.0 Release Notes

What’s New in the Release

  • Deploy Orka Virtualization on an Apple Silicon host whether private or public infrastructure via a Command Line Interface (CLI).
    • List Virtual Machines and running status
    • Restart Virtual Machines
    • Stop Virtual Machines
    • Clone Virtual Machine images
    • Edit Virtual Machine settings for (Ex. CPUs, Mem, Display Resolution, Dots Per Inch)
    • Delete Virtual Machines
    • Save Virtual Machines
    • Push VMs to Open Container Initiative (OCI) compliant registry
    • Pull VMs from OCI registry
    • List available VM images on local file system
    • Copy VMs on local file system
  • Delete VMs from local file systemCreate and deploy Orka OCI compliant Virtual Machine images.
  • Deploy headless VMs (no display console)

System Requirements

  • Apple M1 with 8GB RAM and 50GB disk space
  • macOS X 13.0+ (Ventura)

Known Issues

  • Orka Engine VMs may become unresponsive and show a black/blank screen for a few minutes before activating from sleep or a fresh boot.
  • Orka Engine VMs may show a flickering screen when the mouse or keyboard attempts to wake the VM from sleep mode.
  • Orka Engine VM may experience slow network performance. Workaround: Restart the VM.
  • Orka Engine and Orka Desktop share the same VM image directory on the local file system and discrepancies may develop between available VM images, if both applications are installed on the same host and VMs are added or deleted using both applications.

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