Re: [Libvir] virtinst 0.100.0 and virt-manager 0.3.0 releases

Following on from the recent libvirt 0.1.11 release, I'm pleased to announce new releases of the virtinst & virt-manager applications. The virtinst 0.100.0 release is a major re-factoring to make use of the libvirt inactive domain management APIs when provisioning guests. It also tries to clean up many of the Xen specific bits to facilitate future use with the QEMU backend of libvirt. From a usability point of view it also now displays progress information when downloading kernel & initrd and creating the filesystem images. The virt-manager 0.3.0 release brings a major functionality update, enabling of inactive domain management. This requires libvirt at least version 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. As of today, virtinst is now formally a part of the virt-manager project, so downloads for both virtinst & virt-manager are available from the same download page: http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/downloads.html

All historical release from virtinst 0.95.0 onwards are available there. In addition, to encourage / facilitate broader community development & feedback on the virtinst/virt-manager applications we have decided to designate et-mgmt-tools(a)redhat.com as the project primary mailing list: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools We welcome feedback on what additional capabilities / features people would like to see in future virtinst / virt-manager releases. As a taste of things to come, we have active developments plans for: - Secure authenticated remote management - Support for QEMU & KVM virtualization