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Current releases
virt-manager 0.8.5 Tuesday August 24, 2010
- Improved save/restore support
- Option to view and change disk cache mode
- Configurable VNC keygrab sequence (Michal Novotny)
virtinst 0.500.4 Tuesday August 24, 2010
- New virt-install --console option for specifying virtio console device
- New virt-install --channel option for specifying guest communication channel
- New virt-install --boot option. Allows setting post-install boot order, direct kernel/initrd boot, and enabling boot device menu.
- New virt-install --initrd-inject option, which enables installation using a _local_ kickstart file (Colin Walters)
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 0.8.4 Wednesday March 24, 2010 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 0.500.3 Wednesday March 24, 2010 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.
