On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 03:16:05AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > Following on from the recent libvirt 0.1.11 release, I'm pleased to announce > new releases of the virtinst & virt-manager applications. > > The virtinst 0.100.0 release is a major re-factoring to make use of the > libvirt inactive domain management APIs when provisioning guests. It also > tries to clean up many of the Xen specific bits to facilitate future use > with the QEMU backend of libvirt. From a usability point of view it also > now displays progress information when downloading kernel & initrd and > creating the filesystem images. > > The virt-manager 0.3.0 release brings a major functionality update, enabling > of inactive domain management. This requires libvirt at least version 0.1.11 > to provide implementations of inactive domain management for Xen 3.0.3 > and Xen 3.0.4. With this new functionality the display will list all > guests which are in the 'shutoff' state. The guest can be started with > the 'Run' button in the virtual console window. The vistinst package > must also be updated to at least version 0.100.0 to ensure that during > provisioning of guests it uses the new inactive domain management APIs. > Finally there have been a variety of minor UI fixes & enhancements > such as progress bars during guest creation, reliability fixes to the > virtual console and even greater coverage for translations. > > As of today, virtinst is now formally a part of the virt-manager project, > so downloads for both virtinst & virt-manager are available from the same > download page: > > http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/downloads.html Delibrate typo in that url - it should have been: http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/download.html > All historical release from virtinst 0.95.0 onwards are available there. > > In addition, to encourage / facilitate broader community development & > feedback on the virtinst/virt-manager applications we have decided to > designate et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx as the project primary mailing list: > > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools > > We welcome feedback on what additional capabilities / features people would > like to see in future virtinst / virt-manager releases. As a taste of things > to come, we have active developments plans for: > > - Secure authenticated remote management > - Support for QEMU & KVM virtualization 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 -=|