I'm happy to announce a new virtinst release, version 0.400.0. It can be
downloaded at:
http://virt-manager.org/download.html
The direct link is:
http://virt-manager.org/download/sources/virtinst/virtinst-0.400.0.tar.gz
New in this release:
- New tool 'virt-convert': Allows converting between different types of
virt configuration files. Currently only supports vmx -> virt-image.
- New tool 'virt-pack': Converts virt-image xml format to vmx and packs
in a tar.gz. (Note this will likely be merged with virt-convert in
the future).
- virt-install: Support for remote VM installation. Can use install media
and disk images on remote host if shared via libvirt. Allows
provisioning storage on remote pools.
- virt-install new options:
new --wait option, allows putting a hard time limit on installs.
new --sound option, to create VM with soundcard emulation.
new --disk option, allows specifying media as a path, storage volume, or
a pool to provision storage on, device type, and several other options.
Deprecates --file, --size, --nonsparse.
new --prompt option. Input prompting is no longer the default, this
option turns it back on.
- virt-install: allow setting cpu pinning information for qemu/kvm VMs.
- virt-install: numa support via --cpuset=auto option.
- virt-image: --replace option to overwrite existing VM image file.
- virt-image: support multiple network interfaces in virt-image format.
- use virtio disk/net drivers if chosen os entry supports it (Fedora 9/10,
Ubuntu Hardy).
- Numerous bug fixes and minor improvements.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release whether by testing,
bug reporting, submitting patches, and otherwise sending feedback!
Thanks,
Cole