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Current releases
virt-manager 0.8.4 Wednesday March 24, 2010
- Import install option: create a VM using 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
virtinst 0.500.3 Wednesday March 24, 2010
- virt-install: New --watchdog option: configure a virtual watchdog dev
- virt-install: New --soundhw option: More flexible sound configuration deprecates --sound, though back compat is maintained
- virt-install: New --security option: configure VM security driver
- virt-install: New --description option: set a human readable desc
- Better OS defaults: Use <video> VGA and <sound> AC97 if support
virt-viewer 0.2.0 Wednesday July 29th, 2009
- Switch UI over to use Glade
- Support graphical dialog for VNC and libvirt authentication
- Resize window to match VNC desktop size where possible
- Scale down VNC desktop if it cannot fit in host desktop space
- Allow user to resize window to arbitrary size, scaling VNC
- Fix blocking of accelerators
- Allow automatic reconnect to a VM via --reconnect
- Use libvirt events to detect when VM changes state
- Wait for VM to appear if it does not exist
- Fix plugin build with newer xulrunner
- Port & build for Mingw32 target
Older releases
virt-manager
- virt-manager 0.8.3 Monday February 9th, 2010
- virt-manager 0.8.2 Monday December 14th, 2009
- virt-manager 0.8.1 Thursday December 3rd, 2009
- virt-manager 0.8.0 Tuesday July 28th, 2009
- virt-manager 0.7.0 Monday Mar 9th, 2009
- 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 0.500.2 Monday February 8th, 2010
- virtinst 0.500.1 Thursday December 3rd, 2009
- virtinst 0.500.0 Tuesday July 28th, 2009
- virtinst 0.400.3 Monday March 9th, 2009
- 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 0.0.3 Monday Mar 10th, 2007
- 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 >= 0.6.0 - libVirt is for finding the VNC server config of a guest
- GTK-VNC >= 0.3.8 - 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.
