I'm pleased to announce the availability of virt-manager 0.4.0 and virtinst 0.103.0 for download at http://virt-manager.org/download.html For virt-manager this release introduces major new functionality. There is new UI for the creation & management of virtual networks using the new libvirt networking APIs. The guest creation wizard can now attach VMs to a virtual network or shared physical devices. The initial connection dialog is no longer shown, either a QEMU or Xen connection is automatically opened based on host kernel capabilities. For existing guests there is support for the addition and removal of both disk & network devices (hot-add/remove too if supported by the virtualization platform being used - eg Xen paravirt). The keymap for guest VNC server is automatically set based on the local keymap to assist people using non-English keyboard layouts. There is improved error reporting for a number of critical operations such as starting guests / connecting to the hypervisor. http://virt-manager.org/download/sources/virt-manager/virt-manager-0.4.0.tar.gz Screenshots of the new networking functionality are available on the website http://virt-manager.org/screenshots.html For virtinst this release has again focused on stabalization and input validation. UUIDs are now checked for syntactic correctness. Fixed clashes with disk name & CDROM. Automatically reboot Windows guest installs with CDROM still attached. The '-' character is allowed in guest names. OS types /variants are now specified using their short names. The way Red Hat distros are detected is changed to be more robust, and cope with CentOS and RHEL 5 tree layouts. http://virt-manager.org/download/sources/virtinst/virtinst-0.103.0.tar.gz Thanks go out to all the people who have contributed to these releases both through testing, and by submitting bug fixes & implementing features. Regards, Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|
