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# Virtual Machine Manager News
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## Release 2.2.1 (July 03, 2019)
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- CVE-2019-10183: Replace --unattended user-password and admin-password with
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user-password-file and admin-password-file (Fabiano Fidêncio)
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- Consistent --memballoon default across non-x86 (Andrea Bolognani)
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- virt-install: add --numatune memnode.* (Athina Plaskasoviti)
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- Drop hard dep on gtksourceview4, gtksourceview3 is fine as well
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## Release 2.2.0 (June 17, 2019)
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- libvirt XML viewing and editing UI for new and existing domain, pools,
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volumes, networks
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- virt-install: libosinfo --unattended support (Fabiano Fidêncio, Cole
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Robinson)
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- Improve CPU model security defaults (Pavel Hrdina)
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- virt-install: new --install option. Ex: virt-install --install fedora29
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- virt-install: new --install kernel=,initrd=
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- virt-install: --disk, --memory, --name defaults from libosinfo (Fabiano
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Fidêncio, Cole Robinson)
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- virt-install: add device suboption aliases which consistently match
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libvirt XML naming
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- virt-xml: new --start, --no-define options (Marc Hartmayer)
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- virt-install: Add driver_queues argument to --controller (Vasudeva Kamath)
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- RISC-V support (Andrea Bolognani)
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- Device default improvements for non-x86 KVM (Andrea Bolognani)
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- Redesigned 'New Network' wizard
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- libguestfs inspection improvements (Pino Toscano)
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- virt-install: Add support for xenbus controller (Jim Fehlig)
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- cli: Add --disk wwn=,rawio= (Athina Plaskasoviti)
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- cli: Add --memballoon autodeflate=,stats.period= (Athina Plaskasoviti)
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- cli: Add --iothreads (Athina Plaskasoviti)
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- cli: Add --numatune memory.placement (Athina Plaskasoviti)
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- cli: Add --launchSecurity option (Erik Skultety)
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- cli: Fill in --memorybacking options
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- cli: --smartcard: support database= and certificate[0-9]*=
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- cli: --sysinfo: Add chasis suboptions
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- cli: --metadata: add genid= and genid_enable=
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- cli: --vcpus: add vcpus.vcpu[0-9]* config
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- cli: fill in all common char source options for --serial, --parellel,
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--console, --channel, --smartcard, --rng, --redirdev
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## Release 2.1.0 (February 03, 2019)
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- Bash autocompletion support (Lin Ma, Cole Robinson)
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- UI and command line --vsock support (Slavomir Kaslev)
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- virt-xml: Add --os-variant option (Andrea Bolognani)
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- virt-install: use libosinfo cpu, mem, disk size defaults (Fabiano
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Fidencio)
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- virt-install: Better usage of libosinfo -unknown distro IDs (Fabiano
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Fidencio)
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- virt-install: More usage of libosinfo for ISO --location detection
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- virt-install: Add --location LOCATION,kernel=X,initrd=Y for pointing to
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kernel/initrd in media that virt-install/libosinfo fails to detect
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## Release 2.0.0 (October 15, 2018)
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- Finish port to Python 3 (Radostin Stoyanov, Cole Robinson)
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- Improved VM defaults for supported OS: q35 PCIe, usb3, CPU host-model
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- Search based OS selection UI for new VMs (Daniel P. Berrangé, Cole
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Robinson)
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- Track OS name for lifetime of domain in <metadata> XML
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- Host interface management UI has been completely removed
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- Show domain IP on interface details page (Lin Ma, Cole Robinson)
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- More efficient stats polling with AllDomainStats (Simon Kobyda, Cole
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Robinson)
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- TPM device model and backend UI (Marc-André Lureau, Stefan Berger)
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- Show <channel> connection state in UI (Lin Ma)
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- Show attached devices in <controller> UI (Lin Ma)
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- UI option to plug/unplug VM nic link (Simon Kobyda)
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- UI support for disk discard and detect_zeroes (Povilas Kanapickas, Lin Ma)
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- Improved SUSE --location URL/ISO detection (Charles Arnold)
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- cli and UI support for SCSI persistent reservations (Lin Ma)
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- cli: Add --network mtu.size= option (Anya Harter)
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- cli: Add --disk driver.copy_on_read (Anya Harter)
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- cli: Add --disk geometry support (Anya Harter)
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- cli: Add --sound codec support (Anya Harter)
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- cli: Add --hostdev net/char/block for LXC (Lubomir Rintel)
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- cli: Add --memorybacking access_mode and source_type (Marc-André Lureau)
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- cli: Add --boot rebootTimout (Yossi Ovadia)
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- cli: Add --boot bootloader=
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- cli: Add --destroy-on-exit
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## Release 1.5.0 (February 06, 2018)
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- python3 prep work (Radostin Stoyanov, Cole Robinson, Cédric Bosdonnat)
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- Switch --location ISO to use isoinfo (Andrew Wong)
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- virt-install: add --cpu numa distance handling (Menno Lageman)
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- virt-install: fix --disk for rbd volumes with auth (Rauno Väli)
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- virt-install: add --cputune vcpupin handling (Wim ten Have)
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- details ui: Showing attached scsi devices per controller (Lin Ma)
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- network ui: Show details about SR-IOV VF pool (Lin Ma)
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- Greatly expand UI test suite coverage
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## Release 1.4.3 (September 19, 2017)
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- Improve install of debian/ubuntu non-x86 media (Viktor Mihajlovski, Andrew
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Wong)
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- New virt-install --graphics listen.* (Pavel Hrdina)
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- New virt-install --disk snapshot_policy= (Pavel Hrdina)
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- New virt-install --cpu cache.* (Lin Ma)
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- Several bug fixes
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## Release 1.4.2 (August 08, 2017)
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- New VM wizard virt-bootstrap integration (Radostin Stoyanov)
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- New VM wizard support for virtuozzo containers (Mikhail Feoktistov)
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- network UI: add support to create SR-IOV VF pool (Lin Ma)
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- Nicer OS list in New VM wizard (Pino Toscano)
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- Better defaults for UEFI secureboot builds (Pavel Hrdina)
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- Fix defaults for aarch64 VMs if graphics are requested
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- virt-install: new `--memdev` option (Pavel Hrdina)
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- virt-install: add `--disk logical/physical_block_size` (Yuri Arabadji)
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- virt-install: add `--features hyperv_reset=, hyperv_synic=` (Venkat Datta N
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## Release 1.4.1 (March 08, 2017)
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- storage/nodedev event API support (Jovanka Gulicoska)
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- UI options for enabling spice GL (Marc-André Lureau)
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- Add default virtio-rng /dev/urandom for supported guest OS
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- Cloning and rename support for UEFI VMs (Pavel Hrdina)
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- libguestfs inspection UI improvements (Pino Toscano)
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- virt-install: Add `--qemu-commandline`
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- virt-install: Add `--network vhostuser` (Chen Hanxiao)
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- virt-install: Add `--sysinfo` (Charles Arnold)
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## Release 1.4.0 (June 18, 2016)
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- virt-manager: spice GL console support (Marc-André Lureau, Cole Robinson)
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- Bump gtk and pygobject deps to 3.14
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- virt-manager: add checkbox to forget keyring password (Pavel Hrdina)
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- cli: add `--graphics gl=` (Marc-André Lureau)
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- cli: add `--video accel3d=` (Marc-André Lureau)
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- cli: add `--graphics listen=none` (Marc-André Lureau)
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- cli: add `--transient` flag (Richard W.M. Jones)
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- cli: `--features gic=` support, and set a default for it (Pavel Hrdina)
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- cli: Expose `--video heads, ram, vram, vgamem`
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- cli: add `--graphics listen=socket`
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- cli: add device address.type/address.bus/...
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- cli: add `--disk seclabelX.model` (and .label, .relabel)
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- cli: add `-cpu cellX.id` (and .cpus, and .memory)
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- cli: add `--network rom_bar=` and `rom_file=`
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- cli: add `--disk backing_format=`
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- Many bug fixes and improvements
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## Release 1.3.2 (December 24, 2015)
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- Fix dependency issues with vte
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## Release 1.3.1 (December 06, 2015)
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- Fix command line API on RHEL7 pygobject
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## Release 1.3.0 (November 24, 2015)
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- Git hosting moved to http://github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager
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- Switch translation infrastructure from transifex to fedora.zanata.org
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- Add dogtail UI tests and infrastructure
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- Improved support for s390x kvm (Kevin Zhao)
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- virt-install and virt-manager now remove created disk images if VM
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install startup fails
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- Replace urlgrabber usage with requests and urllib2
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- virt-install: add `--network` virtualport support for openvswitch
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(Daniel P. Berrange)
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- virt-install: support multiple `--security` labels
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- virt-install: support `--features kvm_hidden=on|off` (Pavel Hrdina)
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- virt-install: add `--features pmu=on|off`
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- virt-install: add `--features pvspinlock=on|off` (Abhijeet Kasurde)
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- virt-install: add `--events on_lockfailure=on|off` (Abhijeet Kasurde)
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- virt-install: add `--network link_state=up|down`
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- virt-install: add `--vcpu placement=static|auto`
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## Release 1.2.1 (June 06, 2015)
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- Bugfix release
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- Fix connecting to older libvirt versions (Michał Kępień)
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- Fix connecting to VM console with non-IP hostname (Giuseppe Scrivano)
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- Fix addhardware/create wizard errors when a nodedev disappears
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- Fix adding a second cdrom via customize dialog
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## Release 1.2.0 (May 04, 2015)
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- OVMF/AAVMF Support (Laszlo Ersek, Giuseppe Scrivano, Cole Robinson)
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- Improved support for AArch64 qemu/kvm
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- virt-install: Support `--disk type=network` parameters
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- virt-install: Make `--disk` just work
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- virt-install: Add `--disk sgio=` option (Giuseppe Scrivano)
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- addhardware: default to an existing bus when adding a new disk
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(Giuseppe Scrivano)
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- virt-install: Add `--input` device option
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- virt-manager: Unify storagebrowser and storage details functionality
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- virt-manager: allow setting a custom connection row name
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- virt-install: Support `--hostdev scsi` passthrough
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- virt-install: Fill in a bunch of `--graphics` spice options
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- Disable spice image compression for new local VMs
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- virt-manager: big reworking of the migration dialog
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## Release 1.1.0 (September 07, 2014)
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- Switch to libosinfo as OS metadata database (Giuseppe Scrivano)
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- Use libosinfo for OS detection from CDROM media labels (Giuseppe
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Scrivano)
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- Use libosinfo for improved OS defaults, like recommended disk size
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(Giuseppe Scrivano)
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- virt-image tool has been removed, as previously announced
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- Enable Hyper-V enlightenments for Windows VMs
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- Revert virtio-console default, back to plain serial console
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- Experimental q35 option in new VM 'customize' dialog
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- UI for virtual network QoS settings (Giuseppe Scrivano)
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- virt-install: `--disk discard=` support (Jim Minter)
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- addhardware: Add spiceport UI (Marc-André Lureau)
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- virt-install: `--events on_poweroff` etc. support (Chen Hanxiao)
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- cli:`--network portgroup=` support and UI support
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- cli:`--boot initargs=` and UI support
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- addhardware: allow setting controller model (Chen Hanxiao)
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- virt-install: support setting hugepage options (Chen Hanxiao)
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## Release 1.0.1 (March 22, 2014)
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- virt-install/virt-xml: New `--memorybacking` option (Chen Hanxiao)
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- virt-install/virt-xml: New `--memtune option` (Chen Hanxiao)
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- virt-manager: UI for LXC `<idmap>` (Chen Hanxiao)
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- virt-manager: gsettings key to disable keygrab (Kjö Hansi Glaz)
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- virt-manager: Show domain state reason in the UI (Giuseppe Scrivano)
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- Fix a number of bugs found since the 1.0.0 release
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## Release 1.0.0 (February 14, 2014)
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- virt-manager: Snapshot support
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- New tool virt-xml: Edit libvirt XML in one shot from the command line
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- Improved defaults: qcow2, USB2, host CPU model, guest agent channel,...
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- Introspect command line options like `--disk=?` or `--network=help`
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- The virt-image tool will be removed before the next release, speak up
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if you have a good reason not to remove it.
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- virt-manager: Support arm vexpress VM creation
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- virt-manager: Add guest memory usage graphs (Thorsten Behrens)
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- virt-manager: UI for editing `<filesystem>` devices (Cédric Bosdonnat)
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- Spice USB redirection support (Guannan Ren)
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- `<tpm>` UI and command line support (Stefan Berger)
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- `<rng>` UI and command line support (Giuseppe Scrivano)
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- `<panic>` UI and command line support (Chen Hanxiao)
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- `<blkiotune>` command line support (Chen Hanxiao)
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- virt-manager: support for glusterfs storage pools (Giuseppe Scrivano)
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- cli: New options `--memory`, `--features`, `--clock`, `--metadata`, `--pm`
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- Greatly improve app responsiveness when connecting to remote hosts
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- Lots of UI cleanup and improvements
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## Release 0.10.0 (June 19, 2013)
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- Merged code with python-virtinst. virtinst is no longer public
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- Port from GTK2 to GTK3 (Daniel Berrange, Cole Robinson)
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- Port from gconf to gsettings
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- Port from autotools to python distutils
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- Remove virt-manager-tui
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- Remove HAL support
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- IPv6 and static route virtual network support (Gene Czarcinski)
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- virt-install: Add `--cpu host-passthrough` (Ken ICHIKAWA, Hu Tao)
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## Release 0.9.5 (April 01, 2013)
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- Enable adding virtio-scsi disks (Chen Hanxiao)
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- Support security auto-relabel setting (Martin Kletzander)
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- Support disk iotune settings (David Shane Holden)
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- Support 'reset' as a reboot option (John Doyle)
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- Bug fixes and minor improvements
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## Release 0.9.4 (July 29, 2012)
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- Fix VNC keygrab issues
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## Release 0.9.3 (July 09, 2012)
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- Fix broken release tar.gz of version 0.9.2
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## Release 0.9.2 (July 09, 2012)
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- Convert to gtkbuilder: UI can now be edited with modern glade tool
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- virt-manager no longer runs on RHEL5, but can manage a remote RHEL5
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host
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- Option to configure spapr net and disk devices for pseries (Li Zhang)
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- Many bug fixes and improvements
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## Release 0.9.1 (January 31, 2012)
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- Support for adding usb redirection devices (Marc-André Lureau)
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- Option to switch usb controller to support usb2.0 (Marc-André Lureau)
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- Option to specify machine type for non-x86 guests (Li Zhang)
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- Support for filesystem device type and write policy (Deepak C Shetty)
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- Many bug fixes!
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## Release 0.9.0 (July 26, 2011)
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- Use a hiding toolbar for fullscreen mode
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- Use libguestfs to show guest packagelist and more (Richard W.M. Jones)
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- Basic 'New VM' wizard support for LXC guests
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- Remote serial console access (with latest libvirt)
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- Remote URL guest installs (with latest libvirt)
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- Add Hardware: Support `<filesystem>` devices
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- Add Hardware: Support `<smartcard>` devices (Marc-André Lureau)
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- Enable direct interface selection for qemu/kvm (Gerhard Stenzel)
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- Allow viewing and changing disk serial number
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## Release 0.8.7 (March 24, 2011)
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- Allow renaming an offline VM
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- Spice password support (Marc-André Lureau)
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- Allow editting NIC `<virtualport>` settings (Gerhard Stenzel)
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- Allow enabling/disabling individual CPU features
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- Allow easily changing graphics type between VNC and SPICE for existing
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- Allow easily changing network source device for existing VM
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## Release 0.8.6 (Jan 14, 2011)
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- SPICE support (requires spice-gtk) (Marc-André Lureau)
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- Option to configure CPU model
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- Option to configure CPU topology
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- Save and migration cancellation (Wen Congyang)
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- Save and migration progress reporting
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- Option to enable bios boot menu
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- Option to configure direct kernel/initrd boot
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## Release 0.8.5 (August 24, 2010)
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- Improved save/restore support
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- Option to view and change disk cache mode
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- Configurable VNC keygrab sequence (Michal Novotny)
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## Release 0.8.4 (March 24, 2010)
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- 'Import' install option, to create a VM around an existing OS image
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- Support multiple boot devices and boot order
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- Watchdog device support
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- Enable setting a human readable VM description.
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- Option to manually specifying a bridge name, if bridge isn't detected
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## Release 0.8.3 (February 8th, 2010)
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- New ability to manage network interfaces: start, stop, and view existing
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interfaces. Provision new bridge, bond, and vlan devices.
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- New option to 'customize VM before install', which allows adjusting most
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VM options from the install wizard.
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## Release 0.8.2 (December 14th, 2009)
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This is largely a bug fix release. The following important bugs were fixed:
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- Right click in the manager window operates on the clicked row, NOT
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the last selected row. This could cause an admin to accidentally shut down
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the wrong machine.
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- Running virt-manager on a new machine / user account no longer produces
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a traceback.
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Additionally, there is one new feature:
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- Allow ejecting and connecting floppy media
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## Release 0.8.1 (December 3rd, 2009)
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- VM Migration wizard, exposing various migration options
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- Enumerate CDROM and bridge devices on remote connections
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- Can once again list multiple graphs in main manager window (Jon Nordby)
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- Support disabling dhcp (Michal Novotny), and specifying 'routed' type for
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new virtual networks
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- Support storage pool source enumeration for LVM, NFS, and SCSI
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- Allow changing VM ACPI, APIC, clock offset, individual vcpu pinning,
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and video model (vga, cirrus, etc.)
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- Many improvements and bugfixes
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## Release 0.8.0 (July 28th, 2009)
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This release includes:
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- New 'Clone VM' Wizard
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- Improved UI, including an overhaul of the main 'manager' view
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- System tray icon for easy VM access (start, stop, view console/details)
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- Wizard for adding serial, parallel, and video devices to existing VMs.
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- CPU pinning support (Michal Novotny)
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- Ability to view and change VM security (sVirt) settings (Dan Walsh)
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- Many bug fixes and improvements
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## Release 0.7.0 (March 9th, 2009)
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This release includes:
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- Redesigned 'New Virtual Machine' wizard (Jeremy Perry, Tim Allen,
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Cole Robinson)
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- Option to remove storage when deleting a virtual machine.
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- File browser for libvirt storage pools and volumes, for use when
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attaching storage to a new or existing guest.
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- Physical device assignment (PCI, USB) for existing virtual machines.
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- Bug fixes and minor improvements.
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## Release 0.6.1 (January 26th, 2009)
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This release includes:
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- VM disk and network stats reporting (Guido Gunther)
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- VM Migration support (Shigeki Sakamoto)
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- Support for adding sound devices to an existing VM
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- Enumerate host devices attached to an existing VM
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- Allow specifying a device model when adding a network device to an
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|
existing VM
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- Combine the serial console view with the VM Details window
|
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- Allow connection to multiple VM serial consoles
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|
- Bug fixes and many minor improvements.
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|
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|
## Release 0.6.0 (September 10th, 2008)
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This release includes:
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- Remote storage management and provisioning: View, add, remove, and
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|
provision libvirt managed storage. Attach managed storage to a
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|
remote VM.
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|
- Remote VM installation support: Install from managed media (cdrom)
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||
|
or PXE. Simple install time storage provisioning.
|
||
|
- VM details and console windows merged: each VM is now represented by a
|
||
|
single tabbed window.
|
||
|
- Use Avahi to list libvirtd instances on network
|
||
|
- Hypervisor Autoconnect: Option to connect to hypervisor at virt-manager
|
||
|
start up.
|
||
|
- Option to add sound device emulation when creating new guests.
|
||
|
- Virtio and USB options when adding a disk device.
|
||
|
- Allow viewing and removing VM sound, serial, parallel, and console devices.
|
||
|
- Specifying a specific keymap when adding display device.
|
||
|
- Keep app running if manager window is closed by VM window is still open.
|
||
|
- Allow limiting amount of stored stats history
|
||
|
- Numerous bug fixes and minor improvements.
|
||
|
|
||
|
## Release 0.5.4
|
||
|
|
||
|
This release focuses on minor feature enhancement and bug fixes. Using
|
||
|
the new GTK-VNC accelerated scaling support, the guest console window
|
||
|
can be smoothly resized to fill the screen. The SSH username is passed
|
||
|
through to the VNC console when tunnelling. Adding bridged network
|
||
|
devices is fixed. Support for all libvirt authentication methods is
|
||
|
enabled including Kerberos and PolicyKit. Solaris portability fix for
|
||
|
the text console. Support for detecting bonding and VLAN devices for
|
||
|
attaching guest NICs. Allow fullvirt guests to install off kernel and
|
||
|
initrd as well as existing CDROM methods. Fix invocation of DBus methods
|
||
|
to use an interface. Allow setting of autostart flag, and changing boot
|
||
|
device ordering. Control the new VM wizard based on declared hypervisor
|
||
|
capabilities.
|
||
|
|
||
|
## Release 0.5.3
|
||
|
|
||
|
This is a bug fix release. The sizing of the VNC window is fixed for
|
||
|
screens where the physical size is less than the guest screen size.
|
||
|
The 'new vm' button is switched back to its old (more obvious style/
|
||
|
placement). Restore of VMs is working again for local connections. A
|
||
|
menu for sending special key sequences to the guest is added. Lots of
|
||
|
other misc bug fixes
|
||
|
|
||
|
## Release 0.5.2
|
||
|
|
||
|
This is a bug fix release. Some broken menu items are hooked up again.
|
||
|
The rounding of memory values is fixed. Re-connecting to the VNC display
|
||
|
is fixed. Blocking of GTK accelerators is re-introduced when VNC is
|
||
|
active. Scrollbars on the VNC widget are re-introduced if the console
|
||
|
is close to the maximum local screensize. One new VM wizard is enabled
|
||
|
per connection. Hardware device details are immediately refreshed after
|
||
|
changes. Ability to add/remove display and input devices is enabled.
|
||
|
|
||
|
## Release 0.5.1
|
||
|
|
||
|
This release improves upon the remote management capabilities. It can
|
||
|
now tunnel connections to the VNC server over SSH. It avoids prompting
|
||
|
for SSH passwords on the console. Handling of VNC connections & retries
|
||
|
is made more robust. There is support for changing CDROM media on the
|
||
|
fly (requires suitably updated libvirt). There is ability to PXE boot
|
||
|
install fullyvirtualized guests. Connetions to hypervisors are opened
|
||
|
in the background to avoid blocking the whole UI.
|
||
|
|
||
|
## Release 0.5.0
|
||
|
|
||
|
This release introduces the ability to manage multiple remote machines,
|
||
|
using either SSH+public keys, or TLS+x509 certificates to connect and
|
||
|
authenticate. The main user interface is re-worked to show multiple
|
||
|
hosts in a tree view, remebering connections across restarts. It is
|
||
|
not currently possible to create new guests with a remote host connection.
|
||
|
This capability will be added in a future release. The guest VNC console
|
||
|
implementation has been replaced with the GTK-VNC widget for greatly
|
||
|
improved performance and increased feature set. Other miscellaneous bug
|
||
|
fixes and feature enhancements are also included.
|
||
|
|
||
|
## Release 0.4.0
|
||
|
|
||
|
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.
|
||
|
|
||
|
## Release 0.3.2
|
||
|
|
||
|
The release introduces online help for all windows / dialogs in the
|
||
|
application, to explain usage & operation of key functions. Auto-popup
|
||
|
of consoles was fixed for existing inactive domains. Additional control
|
||
|
operations are available on the right-click menu in the VM list. A
|
||
|
handful of other minor bug fixes are also applied.
|
||
|
|
||
|
## Release 0.3.1
|
||
|
|
||
|
This release introduces support for managing QEMU / KVM virtual machines
|
||
|
using the new libvirt QEMU driver backend. This requires a new libvirt
|
||
|
(at least 0.2.0) to enable the QEMU driver. It also requires an install
|
||
|
of the virtinst package of at least version 0.101.0 to support QEMU. The
|
||
|
dual cursor problem is worked around by grabbing the mouse pointer upon
|
||
|
first button press (release with Ctrl+Alt). The progress bar display
|
||
|
when creating new VMs has had its appearance tweaked. The new VM creation
|
||
|
wizard also allows the user to specify the type of guest OS being installed.
|
||
|
This will allow the setup of virtual hardware to be optimized for the needs
|
||
|
of specific guest OS.
|
||
|
|
||
|
## Release 0.3.0
|
||
|
|
||
|
This release brings a major functionality update, enabling management
|
||
|
of inactive domains. This requires a new libvirt (at least 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.
|
||
|
|
||
|
## Release 0.2.6
|
||
|
|
||
|
The release focus has been on major bug fixing. This is also the
|
||
|
first release in which (partial) translations are available for
|
||
|
the UI in approximately 20 languages - thanks to the Fedora i18n
|
||
|
team for excellent progress on this. It is now possible to control
|
||
|
the virt-manager UI with command line arguments as well as the DBus
|
||
|
API & it DBus activation is no longer used by default which fixes
|
||
|
interaction with GNOME keyring & AT-SPI accesibility. Numerous
|
||
|
UI issues were fixed / clarified, particularly in the graphical
|
||
|
console and new VM creation wizard.
|
||
|
|
||
|
|
||
|
## Release 0.1.4
|
||
|
|
||
|
* Integration with GNOME keyring for the VNC console to avoid
|
||
|
need to remember passwords when accessing the guest domain's
|
||
|
console
|
||
|
* Use cairo to rendered a '50% alpha gray wash' over the screenshot
|
||
|
to give appearance of a 'dimmed' display when paused. Also render
|
||
|
the word 'paused' in big letters.
|
||
|
* Initial cut of code for saving domain snapshots to disk
|
||
|
* Added icons for buttons which were missing graphics
|
||
|
* Miscellaneous RPM spec file fixes to comply with rpmlint
|
||
|
* Update status icons to match those in the gnome-applet-vm
|
||
|
* Added domain ID and # VCPUs to summary view
|
||
|
* Misc bug fixes
|
||
|
|
||
|
## Release 0.1.3
|
||
|
|
||
|
* Fixed DBus service activation & general brokenness
|
||
|
* Added a display of virtual CPU count in summary page
|
||
|
* Fixed alignment of status label in details page
|
||
|
* Make hardware config panel resizeable
|
||
|
* Switch detailed graph rendering to use sparkline code
|
||
|
* Switch to use filled sparkline graphs
|
||
|
|
||
|
## Release 0.1.2
|
||
|
|
||
|
* First public release
|