Current releases
virt-manager 3.0.0 Tuesday September 15, 2020
- virt-install –cloud-init support (Athina Plaskasoviti, Cole Robinson)
- The virt-convert tool has been removed. Please use virt-v2v instead
- A handful of UI XML configuration options have been removed. The XML editor can be used instead. For a larger discussion see this thread: https://www.redhat.com/archives/virt-tools-list/2019-June/msg00117.html
- The ‘New VM’ UI now has a ‘Manual Install’ option which creates a VM without any required install media
- In the ‘New VM’ UI, the network/pxe install option has been removed. If you need network boot, choose ‘Manual Install’ and set the boot device after initial VM creation
- ‘Clone VM’ UI has been reworked and simplified
- ‘Migrate VM’ UI now has an XML editor for the destination VM
- Global and per-vm option to disable graphical console autoconnect. This makes it easier to use virt-manager alongside another client like virt-viewer
- virt-manager: set guest time after VM restore (Michael Weiser)
- virt-manager: option to delete storage when removing disk device (Lily Nie)
- virt-manager: show warnings if snapshot operation is unsafe (Michael Weiser)
- Unattended install improvements (Fabiano Fidêncio)
- cli: new –xml XPATH=VAL option for making direct XML changes
- virt-install: new –reinstall=DOMAIN option
- virt-install: new –autoconsole text|graphical|none option
- virt-install: new –os-variant detect=on,require=on suboptions
- cli: –clock, –keywrap, –blkiotune, –cputune additions (Athina Plaskasoviti)
- cli: add –features kvm.hint-dedicated.state= (Menno Lageman)
- cli:–iommu option (Menno Lageman)
- cli: Add –graphics websocket= support (Petr Benes)
- cli: Add –disk type=nvme source.* suboptions
- cli: Fill in all –filesystem suboptions
- Translation string improvements (Pino Toscano)
- Convert from .pod to .rst for man pages
- Switch to pytest as our test runner
- Massively improved unittest and uitest code coverage
- Now using github issues as our bug tracker
virt-viewer 9.0 (gpg) Friday May 1st, 2020 Win x86 MSI (gpg) Win x64 MSI (gpg)
Virt-viewer releases are GPG signed with a key having the fingerprint:
DAF3 A6FD B26B 6291 2D0E 8E3F BE86 EBB4 1510 4FDF (4096R)
This same fingerprint is listed at time of the release announcements mails on the mailing list
- Project moved to https://gitlab.com/virt-viewer/virt-viewer
- Allow toggling shared clipboard in remote-viewer
- Fix handling when initial spice connection fails
- Fix check for govirt library
- Add bash completion of cli args
- Improve errors in file transfer dialog
- Fix ovirt foreign menu storage domains query
- Prefer TLS certs from oVirt instead of CLI
- Improve USB device cleanup when Ctrl-C is used
- Remember monitor mappings across restarts
- Add a default file extension to screenshots
- Updated translations
- Fix misc memory leaks
virt-bootstrap 1.1.1 (gpg) Tuesday Jul 9th, 2019
- Don’t expose the root password via command line
- Set SElinux file context of destination folder
- Use absolute destination path
- safe-untar: Inherit SElinux context
- don’t allow overwriting of the root partition
Previous releases
- virt-manager: Sources and Changelogs
- virt-viewer: Sources and Changelogs
- virt-bootstrap: Sources and Changelogs
Verifying gpg signatures
As a quick guide, to import a key from the key servers and verify downloads use.
$ gpg --recv-key 0xBE86EBB415104FDF $ gpg --fingerprint 0xBE86EBB415104FDF ...check it matches fingerprint above... $ gpg --verify SIGNATURE-FILE SOURCE-FILE