Virtual Machine Manager News ============================ Release 0.8.5 (August 24, 2010) ------------------------------- - Improved save/restore support - Option to view and change disk cache mode - Configurable VNC keygrab sequence (Michal Novotny) Release 0.8.4 (March 24, 2010) ------------------------------ - 'Import' install option, to create a VM around an existing OS image - Support multiple boot devices and boot order - Watchdog device support - Enable setting a human readable VM description. - Option to manually specifying a bridge name, if bridge isn't detected Release 0.8.3 (February 8th, 2010) ---------------------------------- - New ability to manage network interfaces: start, stop, and view existing interfaces. Provision new bridge, bond, and vlan devices. - New option to 'customize VM before install', which allows adjusting most VM options from the install wizard. Release 0.8.2 (December 14th, 2009) ----------------------------------- This is largely a bug fix release. The following important bugs were fixed: - Right click in the manager window operates on the clicked row, NOT the last selected row. This could cause an admin to accidentally shut down the wrong machine. - Running virt-manager on a new machine / user account no longer produces a traceback. Additionally, there is one new feature: - Allow ejecting and connecting floppy media Release 0.8.1 (December 3rd, 2009) ---------------------------------- - VM Migration wizard, exposing various migration options - Enumerate CDROM and bridge devices on remote connections - Can once again list multiple graphs in main manager window (Jon Nordby) - Support disabling dhcp (Michal Novotny), and specifying 'routed' type for new virtual networks - Support storage pool source enumeration for LVM, NFS, and SCSI - Allow changing VM ACPI, APIC, clock offset, individual vcpu pinning, and video model (vga, cirrus, etc.) - Many improvements and bugfixes Release 0.8.0 (July 28th, 2009) ------------------------------- This release includes: - New 'Clone VM' Wizard - Improved UI, including an overhaul of the main 'manager' view - System tray icon for easy VM access (start, stop, view console/details) - Wizard for adding serial, parallel, and video devices to existing VMs. - CPU pinning support (Michal Novotny) - Ability to view and change VM security (sVirt) settings (Dan Walsh) - Many bug fixes and improvements Release 0.7.0 (March 9th, 2009) ------------------------------- This release includes: - Redesigned 'New Virtual Machine' wizard (Jeremy Perry, Tim Allen, Cole Robinson) - Option to remove storage when deleting a virtual machine. - File browser for libvirt storage pools and volumes, for use when attaching storage to a new or existing guest. - Physical device assignment (PCI, USB) for existing virtual machines. - Bug fixes and minor improvements. Release 0.6.1 (January 26th, 2009) ---------------------------------- This release includes: - VM disk and network stats reporting (Guido Gunther) - VM Migration support (Shigeki Sakamoto) - Support for adding sound devices to an existing VM - Enumerate host devices attached to an existing VM - Allow specifying a device model when adding a network device to an existing VM - Combine the serial console view with the VM Details window - Allow connection to multiple VM serial consoles - Bug fixes and many minor improvements. Release 0.6.0 (September 10th, 2008) ------------------------------------ This release includes: - Remote storage management and provisioning: View, add, remove, and provision libvirt managed storage. Attach managed storage to a remote VM. - Remote VM installation support: Install from managed media (cdrom) 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 excellant 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