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Virtual Machine Manager News
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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 editted 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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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.
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- VM details and console windows merged: each VM is now represented by a
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single tabbed window.
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- Use Avahi to list libvirtd instances on network
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- Hypervisor Autoconnect: Option to connect to hypervisor at virt-manager
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start up.
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- Option to add sound device emulation when creating new guests.
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- Virtio and USB options when adding a disk device.
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- Allow viewing and removing VM sound, serial, parallel, and console devices.
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- Specifying a specific keymap when adding display device.
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- Keep app running if manager window is closed by VM window is still open.
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- Allow limiting amount of stored stats history
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- Numerous bug fixes and minor improvements.
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Release 0.5.4
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This release focuses on minor feature enhancement and bug fixes. Using
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the new GTK-VNC accelerated scaling support, the guest console window
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can be smoothly resized to fill the screen. The SSH username is passed
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through to the VNC console when tunnelling. Adding bridged network
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devices is fixed. Support for all libvirt authentication methods is
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enabled including Kerberos and PolicyKit. Solaris portability fix for
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the text console. Support for detecting bonding and VLAN devices for
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attaching guest NICs. Allow fullvirt guests to install off kernel and
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initrd as well as existing CDROM methods. Fix invocation of DBus methods
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to use an interface. Allow setting of autostart flag, and changing boot
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device ordering. Control the new VM wizard based on declared hypervisor
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capabilities.
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Release 0.5.3
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This is a bug fix release. The sizing of the VNC window is fixed for
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screens where the physical size is less than the guest screen size.
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The 'new vm' button is switched back to its old (more obvious style/
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placement). Restore of VMs is working again for local connections. A
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menu for sending special key sequences to the guest is added. Lots of
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other misc bug fixes
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Release 0.5.2
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This is a bug fix release. Some broken menu items are hooked up again.
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The rounding of memory values is fixed. Re-connecting to the VNC display
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is fixed. Blocking of GTK accelerators is re-introduced when VNC is
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active. Scrollbars on the VNC widget are re-introduced if the console
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is close to the maximum local screensize. One new VM wizard is enabled
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per connection. Hardware device details are immediately refreshed after
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changes. Ability to add/remove display and input devices is enabled.
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Release 0.5.1
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This release improves upon the remote management capabilities. It can
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now tunnel connections to the VNC server over SSH. It avoids prompting
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for SSH passwords on the console. Handling of VNC connections & retries
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is made more robust. There is support for changing CDROM media on the
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fly (requires suitably updated libvirt). There is ability to PXE boot
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install fullyvirtualized guests. Connetions to hypervisors are opened
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in the background to avoid blocking the whole UI.
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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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