ANNOUNCE: virt-manager 0.9.0 and virtinst 0.600.0 released

[Cole Robinson]

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

[virt-tools-list] ANNOUNCE: virt-manager 0.9.0 and virtinst 0.600.0 released

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:31:10PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
>  - Use libguestfs to show guest packagelist and more (Richard W.M.
> Jones) 
I had one complaint that the dependency on python-libguestfs pulls in
qemu (from someone using virt-manager to remotely manage systems, so
they don't want qemu locally and it wouldn't be any use to them for
libguestfs).

This is hard to solve, unless RPM grows soft dependencies like dpkg,
which unfortunately has been rejected many times upstream even though
it's a good feature of dpkg.

We might _not_ make it a dependency at all.  Virt-manager will still
work, just without the enhanced inspection features.

Just so you know ...

Rich.

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[virt-tools-list] ANNOUNCE: virt-manager 0.9.0 and virtinst 0.600.0 released

[Cole Robinson]

On 07/30/2011 01:15 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>  On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:31:10PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> > - Use libguestfs to show guest packagelist and more (Richard W.M. Jones)
>  
>  I had one complaint that the dependency on python-libguestfs pulls in
>  qemu (from someone using virt-manager to remotely manage systems, so
>  they don't want qemu locally and it wouldn't be any use to them for
>  libguestfs).
>  
>  This is hard to solve, unless RPM grows soft dependencies like dpkg,
>  which unfortunately has been rejected many times upstream even though
>  it's a good feature of dpkg.
>  
>  We might _not_ make it a dependency at all.  Virt-manager will still
>  work, just without the enhanced inspection features.
>  
>  Just so you know ...
>   
Yeah I had a similar report (or maybe the same one?) Figuring that we go to
great pains in virt-manager to avoid having a dep on qemu or libvirtd (since
virt-manager doesn't need either to be useful), we can't have a hard dep on
libguestfs, so I'll be dropping it for the Fedora packages.

Thanks,
Cole

[libvirt] [virt-tools-list] ANNOUNCE: virt-manager 0.9.0 and virtinst 0.600.0 released

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 09:13:07AM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
>  On 07/30/2011 01:15 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>  > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:31:10PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
>  >> - Use libguestfs to show guest packagelist and more (Richard W.M. Jones)
>  > 
>  > I had one complaint that the dependency on python-libguestfs pulls in
>  > qemu (from someone using virt-manager to remotely manage systems, so
>  > they don't want qemu locally and it wouldn't be any use to them for
>  > libguestfs).
>  > 
>  > This is hard to solve, unless RPM grows soft dependencies like dpkg,
>  > which unfortunately has been rejected many times upstream even though
>  > it's a good feature of dpkg.
>  > 
>  > We might _not_ make it a dependency at all.  Virt-manager will still
>  > work, just without the enhanced inspection features.
>  > 
>  > Just so you know ...
>  > 
>  
>  Yeah I had a similar report (or maybe the same one?) Figuring that we go to
>  great pains in virt-manager to avoid having a dep on qemu or libvirtd (since
>  virt-manager doesn't need either to be useful), we can't have a hard dep on
>  libguestfs, so I'll be dropping it for the Fedora packages. 
Make sure that python-libguestfs is included in the 'Virtualization' group
of Fedora comps.xml then. So that when someone does 'yum groupinstall
Virtualizaation' or selects Virtualization in Anaconda, they get all the bits by
default


Daniel
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[libvirt] [virt-tools-list] ANNOUNCE: virt-manager 0.9.0 and virtinst 0.600.0 released

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 12:05:19PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>  On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 09:13:07AM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
>  > On 07/30/2011 01:15 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>  > > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:31:10PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
>  > >> - Use libguestfs to show guest packagelist and more (Richard W.M. Jones)
>  > > 
>  > > I had one complaint that the dependency on python-libguestfs pulls in
>  > > qemu (from someone using virt-manager to remotely manage systems, so
>  > > they don't want qemu locally and it wouldn't be any use to them for
>  > > libguestfs).
>  > > 
>  > > This is hard to solve, unless RPM grows soft dependencies like dpkg,
>  > > which unfortunately has been rejected many times upstream even though
>  > > it's a good feature of dpkg.
>  > > 
>  > > We might _not_ make it a dependency at all.  Virt-manager will still
>  > > work, just without the enhanced inspection features.
>  > > 
>  > > Just so you know ...
>  > > 
>  > 
>  > Yeah I had a similar report (or maybe the same one?) Figuring that we go to
>  > great pains in virt-manager to avoid having a dep on qemu or libvirtd (since
>  > virt-manager doesn't need either to be useful), we can't have a hard dep on
>  > libguestfs, so I'll be dropping it for the Fedora packages.
>  
>  Make sure that python-libguestfs is included in the 'Virtualization' group
>  of Fedora comps.xml then. So that when someone does 'yum groupinstall
> Virtualizaation' or selects Virtualization in Anaconda, they get all the bits by
> default 
Done it.  I added guestfs-browser as an optional component too.

Rich.

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