Public Beta

MFConsole Downloads

Two pieces: the console (the control plane you run once) and the node ISO (flashed onto every KVM host it manages).

Console Node ISO

Deploy the Console

MFCloud Console is the control plane for the MFCloud platform — an enterprise KVM hypervisor manager. One image runs the web console, Celery worker, and beat scheduler (selected by command: in the shipped compose files). It manages VM lifecycle and live migration, Ceph/LINSTOR/ZFS storage, OVN networking, Kubernetes clusters, and multi-tenant RBAC, with optional HA via Patroni/TimescaleDB.

Public beta. Runs on the Free edition out of the box (2 nodes / 10 VMs, no license key needed) — paste a license key in Settings → Edition & License later to unlock higher caps and paid features (HA, S3 backup, multi-tenant, LDAP, and more). KVM hosts are added from its UI afterward — see the Node ISO below.

MFConsole 0.42.5.12-beta

Released 2026-07-29

Quick Start

Pull the image, extract the deploy files with cp (no login, no separate download needed), and run the installer — works with Docker or Podman:

docker pull mfconsole/kvm-manager:latest
id=$(docker create mfconsole/kvm-manager:latest)
docker cp "$id":/app/deploy-files ./mfconsole
docker rm "$id"
cd mfconsole
./install.sh

podman pull docker.io/mfconsole/kvm-manager:latest
id=$(podman create docker.io/mfconsole/kvm-manager:latest)
podman cp "$id":/app/deploy-files ./mfconsole
podman rm "$id"
cd mfconsole
./install.sh

install.sh auto-detects Docker or Podman on the host (pass --engine docker or --engine podman to force one) — handles .env setup, secret generation, and bringing the stack up, then prints the console URL and login when it's done. Requires Docker (Compose v2.24+) or Podman (podman compose or podman-compose).

What's New — 0.42.5.12-beta (2026-07-29)

Fixed console access after VM migration — the noVNC console could stop working for a VM after a live or cold migration; the destination host now self-heals the display configuration on every move.
Closed a container networking security gap — a specific network configuration could silently bypass a container's security-group ACLs while still reporting as protected; that combination is now rejected outright with a clear error.
Root-caused the intermittent "0 VMs" / "awaiting host data" dashboard blips some multi-host deployments saw — a host SSH allowlist only covered the cluster's floating IP, not each console replica's real source IP.
Dashboard stats no longer blank out on a transient API hiccup — the Summary tab's VM/host counts and overview widgets could briefly drop to zero; a malformed response no longer overwrites known-good data.
Real monitoring-style Summary tab — host availability donuts, a per-host health honeycomb, alert summary, and top-VMs-by-usage rankings. Datastores got a matching Overview tab (capacity, IOPS, throughput, utilization).
Multi-VM live-copy import — select several guests at once, pick a placement cluster, and MFConsole spreads the batch across hosts by free capacity, with a per-VM preview before anything imports.
Live hardware/NIC editing for containers, NFS datastores now show which VMs live on them, and several browser pop-up prompts across Storage/Identity were replaced with real on-screen forms.

First login

install.sh prints the exact URL and login at the end of the run. By default: open https://<your-master-ip>/ (self-signed TLS — accept the browser warning). Username admin, password mfpro — the console forces a password change before the dashboard loads.

Download MFConsole Node ISO

The all-in-one Rocky-based hypervisor installer. Flash it, boot a server, and enroll the node into your MFConsole control plane. Two builds — pick the one matching your hardware.

Standard Hypervisor el9

Rocky Linux 9.8 (el9) · x86-64 · UEFI · For regular KVM hosts (no GPU/SR-IOV passthrough) · Released 2026-07-21 · ~4.89 GB

Download ISO

SHA-256 checksum

c481f2be8e669c20ecb8b4300ec73db8e0cb2bf7bb1f1b5350b69e38b0606166

GPU & SR-IOV Hypervisor (el10, GPU)

Rocky Linux 10.2 (el10) · x86-64 · UEFI · For hosts with GPU passthrough / SR-IOV NICs · Released 2026-06-08 · ~2.94 GB

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SHA-256 checksum

2f257bbd5ba3c65ede5b396cf9e4c2202d3dd328a4a4e77faaf467c8450e0d4d

Verify before you flash

Confirm the download wasn't corrupted or tampered with. Run the checksum check for whichever ISO you downloaded.

Checksum (integrity)

sha256sum mfcloud-min-el9.iso        # standard hypervisor
sha256sum mfcloud-v40-el10-gpu.iso   # GPU / SR-IOV hypervisor
# compare the output against the matching SHA-256 shown above

Quick start

1.Write the ISO to a USB stick on Windows with Rufus (see warning below), or on Linux/Mac with balenaEtcher or dd — or mount it directly via iDRAC/iLO virtual media.
2.Boot the target server (UEFI). The installer runs unattended and reboots into the node agent.
3.From the MFConsole UI, Add Host with the node's IP to enroll it into your cluster.
4.Full walkthrough in the Install a Node guide.

Using Rufus? Select "DD Image mode" — not "ISO Image mode"

Rufus defaults to "ISO Image mode (Recommended)" for this ISO, but that repartitions the drive and breaks the installer's boot layout. The symptom is silent: the installer boots and appears to run, then sits frozen on "Installing base system" indefinitely with no error. When Rufus prompts you to choose, pick "DD Image mode" instead. (balenaEtcher and dd always write raw/DD-style by default — this only applies to Rufus.)

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Beta builds are lab-mode

This ISO ships with default lab credentials and is intended for trusted lab / LAN environments only — not internet-facing production. Change the default admin password on first login, and restrict node management ports to your control-plane network. See the beta known-issues notes for details.

Hit a problem? Join our Discord or open a thread on the forum — beta feedback goes straight to the team.