[fedora-virt] ANNOUNCE: virt-manager 0.9.0 and virtinst 0.600.0 released
I'm happy to announce two new releases:
virt-manager 0.9.0: virt-manager is a desktop application for managing
KVM and Xen virtual machines via libvirt.
virtinst 0.600.0: virtinst is a collection of command line tools for
provisioning libvirt virtual machines, including virt-install and
virt-clone.
The releases can be downloaded from:
http://virt-manager.org/download.html
The direct download links are:
http://virt-manager.org/download/sources/virt-manager/virt-manager-0.9.0....
http://virt-manager.org/download/sources/virtinst/virtinst-0.600.0.tar.gz
The virt-manager release includes:
- Use a hiding toolbar for fullscreen mode
- Use libguestfs to show guest packagelist and more (Richard W.M. Jones)
- Basic 'New VM' wizard support for LXC guests
- Remote serial console access (with latest libvirt)
- Remote URL guest installs (with latest libvirt)
- Add Hardware: Support <filesystem> devices
- Add Hardware: Support <smartcard> devices (Marc-André Lureau)
- Enable direct interface selection for qemu/kvm (Gerhard Stenzel)
- Allow viewing and changing disk serial number
The virtinst release includes:
- virt-install: Various improvements to enable LXC/container guests:
- New --filesystem option for <filesystem> devices
- New --init option for container <init> path
- New --container option (similar to --paravirt or --hvm)
- virt-install: Make --location remotely (with latest libvirt)
- virt-install: New --smartcard option for <smartcard> devices
(Marc-André Lureau)
- virt-install: New --numatune option for building guest <numatune> XML
- virt-install: option to set --disk error_policy=
- virt-install: option to set --disk serial=
Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release through testing,
bug reporting, submitting patches, and otherwise sending in feedback!
Thanks,
Cole