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Virtual Machine Manager News
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Release 0.5.0
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This release introduces the ability to manage multiple remote machines,
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using either SSH+public keys, or TLS+x509 certificates to connect and
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authenticate. The main user interface is re-worked to show multiple
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hosts in a tree view, remebering connections across restarts. It is
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not currently possible to create new guests with a remote host connection.
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This capability will be added in a future release. The guest VNC console
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implementation has been replaced with the GTK-VNC widget for greatly
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improved performance and increased feature set. Other miscellaneous bug
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fixes and feature enhancements are also included.
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Release 0.4.0
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This release introduces major new functionality. There is new UI for the
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creation & management of virtual networks using the new libvirt networking
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APIs. The guest creation wizard can now attach VMs to a virtual network or
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shared physical devices. The initial connection dialog is no longer shown,
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either a QEMU or Xen connection is automatically opened based on host kernel
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capabilities. For existing guests there is support for the addition and
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removal of both disk & network devices (hot-add/remove too if supported by
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the virtualization platform being used - eg Xen paravirt). The keymap for
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guest VNC server is automatically set based on the local keymap to assist
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people using non-English keyboard layouts. There is improved error reporting
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for a number of critical operations such as starting guests / connecting
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to the hypervisor.
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Release 0.3.2
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The release introduces online help for all windows / dialogs in the
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application, to explain usage & operation of key functions. Auto-popup
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of consoles was fixed for existing inactive domains. Additional control
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operations are available on the right-click menu in the VM list. A
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handful of other minor bug fixes are also applied.
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Release 0.3.1
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This release introduces support for managing QEMU / KVM virtual machines
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using the new libvirt QEMU driver backend. This requires a new libvirt
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(at least 0.2.0) to enable the QEMU driver. It also requires an install
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of the virtinst package of at least version 0.101.0 to support QEMU. The
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dual cursor problem is worked around by grabbing the mouse pointer upon
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first button press (release with Ctrl+Alt). The progress bar display
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when creating new VMs has had its appearance tweaked. The new VM creation
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wizard also allows the user to specify the type of guest OS being installed.
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This will allow the setup of virtual hardware to be optimized for the needs
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of specific guest OS.
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Release 0.3.0
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This release brings a major functionality update, enabling management
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of inactive domains. This requires a new libvirt (at least 0.1.11)
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to provide implementations of inactive domain management for Xen 3.0.3
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and Xen 3.0.4. With this new functionality the display will list all
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guests which are in the 'shutoff' state. The guest can be started with
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the 'Run' button in the virtual console window. The vistinst package
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must also be updated to at least version 0.100.0 to ensure that during
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provisioning of guests it uses the new inactive domain management APIs.
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Finally there have been a variety of minor UI fixes & enhancements
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such as progress bars during guest creation, reliability fixes to the
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virtual console and even greater coverage for translations.
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Release 0.2.6
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The release focus has been on major bug fixing. This is also the
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first release in which (partial) translations are available for
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the UI in approximately 20 languages - thanks to the Fedora i18n
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team for excellant progress on this. It is now possible to control
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the virt-manager UI with command line arguments as well as the DBus
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API & it DBus activation is no longer used by default which fixes
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interaction with GNOME keyring & AT-SPI accesibility. Numerous
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UI issues were fixed / clarified, particularly in the graphical
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console and new VM creation wizard.
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Release 0.1.4
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* Integration with GNOME keyring for the VNC console to avoid
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need to remember passwords when accessing the guest domain's
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console
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* Use cairo to rendered a '50% alpha gray wash' over the screenshot
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to give appearance of a 'dimmed' display when paused. Also render
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the word 'paused' in big letters.
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* Initial cut of code for saving domain snapshots to disk
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* Added icons for buttons which were missing graphics
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* Miscellaneous RPM spec file fixes to comply with rpmlint
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* Update status icons to match those in the gnome-applet-vm
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* Added domain ID and # VCPUs to summary view
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* Misc bug fixes
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Release 0.1.3
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* Fixed DBus service activation & general brokenness
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* Added a display of virtual CPU count in summary page
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* Fixed alignment of status label in details page
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* Make hardware config panel resizeable
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* Switch detailed graph rendering to use sparkline code
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* Switch to use filled sparkline graphs
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Release 0.1.2
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* First public release
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