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Current releases
virt-manager 0.7.0 Monday Mar 9th, 2009
- 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.
virtinst 0.400.3 Monday March 9th, 2009
This is largely a bug fix release, which fixes several annoying bugs present in virtinst-0.400.2.
- virt-install --file was busted
- virt-install --os-type windows was busted for --cdrom installs
- virt-install --os-variant values weren't used if installing from a URL
The feature list for the previous release was:
- New virt-clone option --original-xml, allows cloning a guest from an xml file, rather than require an existing, defined guest.
- New virt-install option --import, allows creating a guest from an existing disk image, bypassing any OS install phase.
- New virt-install option --host-device, for connecting a physical host device to the guest.
- Allow specifying 'cache' value via virt-install's --disk options (Ben Kochie)
- New virt-install option --nonetworks (John Levon)
- Lots of backend cleanups and documentation improvements.
virt-viewer 0.0.3 Monday Mar 10th, 2007
This release addresses a number of minor bugs. It will block accelerators when keyboard grab is active. Password characters are hidden in text entry field. The domain name is used in the title bar. The guest console can be resized using smooth hardware accelerated scaling. Added an experimental firefox plugin can be used to access a console from a web browser.
Older releases
virt-manager
- virt-manager 0.6.1 Monday Jan 26th, 2009
- virt-manager 0.6.0 Wednesday Sep 10th, 2008
- virt-manager 0.5.4 Monday Mar 10th, 2008
- virt-manager 0.5.3 Thursday Jan 10th, 2008
- virt-manager 0.5.2 Thursday Oct 4th, 2007
- virt-manager 0.5.1 Tuesday Sep 25th, 2007
- virt-manager 0.5.0 Wednesday Aug 29th, 2007
- virt-manager 0.4.0 Monday Apr 16th, 2007
- virt-manager 0.3.2 Tuesday Mar 20th, 2007
- virt-manager 0.3.1 Wednesday Feb 21st, 2007
- virt-manager 0.3.0 Monday Jan 22nd, 2007
- virt-manager 0.2.6 Thursday Nov 9th, 2006
- virt-manager 0.2.5 Thursday Oct 19th, 2006
- virt-manager 0.2.4 Thursday Oct 12th, 2006
- virt-manager 0.2.3 Tuesday Sep 26th, 2006
- virt-manager 0.2.2 Friday Sep 15th, 2006
- virt-manager 0.2.1 Monday Sep 11th, 2006
- virt-manager 0.2.0 Tuesday Aug 22nd, 2006
- virt-manager 0.1.5 Thursday July 20th, 2006
- virt-manager 0.1.3 Monday July 17th, 2006
- virt-manager 0.1.2 Wednesday Jun 28th, 2006
virt-inst
- virtinst 0.400.2 Tuesday March 3rd, 2009
- virtinst 0.400.1 Monday Jan 26th, 2009
- virtinst 0.400.0 Wednesday Sep 10th, 2008
- virtinst 0.300.3 Monday Mar 10th, 2008
- virtinst 0.300.2 Thursday Jan 10th, 2008
- virtinst 0.300.1 Tuesday Sep 25th, 2007
- virtinst 0.300.0 Wednesday Aug 29th, 2007
- virtinst 0.200.0 Wednesday Jul 18th, 2007
- virtinst 0.103.0 Monday Apr 16th, 2007
- virtinst 0.102.0 Tuesday Mar 20th, 2007
- virtinst 0.101.0 Wednesday Feb 21st, 2007
- virtinst 0.100.0 Monday Jan 22nd, 2007
- virtinst 0.99.0 Friday Dec 15th, 2006
- virtinst 0.98.0 Thursday Nov 30th, 2006
- virtinst 0.97.0 Monday Nov 20th, 2006
- virtinst 0.96.0 Wednesday Oct 18th, 2006
- virtinst 0.95.0 Thursday Oct 12th, 2006
virt-viewer
- virt-viewer 0.0.2 Wednesday Aug 29th, 2007
- virt-viewer 0.0.1 Wednesday Aug 15th, 2007
Pre-requisites
Virtual Machine Manager has the following dependancies
- python >= 2.4 - virt-manager is written in Python!
- pygtk2 >= 1.99.12-6 - the Python GTK2 bindings are used for the UI
- gnome-python2-gconf >= 1.99.11-7 - GConf stores application preferences
- libvirt-python >= 0.4.0 - libVirt is for talking to Xen, QEMU, KVM and other virtualization backensd
- dbus-python >= 0.61 - optionally expose a service on the bus for control of the UI
- gnome-python-desktop >= 2.15.4 - optionally store VNC server passwords in GNOME keyring
- libxml2-python >= 2.6.23 - used to parse XML from libvirt
- vte >= 0.12.2 - for displaying / interacting with the serial console
- virtinst >= 0.300.3 - python library for assisting in creating VMs
- gtk-vnc-python >= 0.3.4 - GTK widget for displaying VNC sessions
Virt Install/Clone/Image have the following dependancies
- python >= 2.4 - virt-manager is written in Python!
- libvirt-python >= 0.4.0 - libVirt is for talking to Xen, QEMU, KVM and other virtualization backends
Virtual Machine Viewer has the following dependnacies
- libvirt >= 0.1.7 - libVirt is for finding the VNC server config of a guest
- GTK-VNC >= 0.3.4 - provides the VNC display widget
Binaries
Binary builds of virt-manager are not distributed directly, rather it is left to OS distributors to package virt-manager according to their own standards.
Fedora
Virt Machine Manager is available in Fedora since Fedora Core 6 and can be installed with the command:
# yum install virt-manager
Depending on whether one wants to manage Xen or QEMU/KVM virtual machines one must also install either
# yum install xen kernel-xen
Or
# yum install qemu kvm
Gentoo
Virt Machine Manager is available in Gentoo using the usual emerge
tool
# emerge virt-manager
If you package virt-manager for another distribution let us know and details can be added to this page.
