Virtual Machine Manager News ============================ 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