I'm happy to announce two new releases: virt-manager 0.8.4: virt-manager is a desktop application for managing KVM and Xen virtual machines via libvirt. virtinst 0.500.3: virtinst is a collection of command line tools for provisioning libvirt virtual machines, including virt-install and virt-clone. The releases can be downloaded from: http://virt-manager.org/download.html The direct download links are: http://virt-manager.org/download/sources/virt-manager/virt-manager-0.8.4.... http://virt-manager.org/download/sources/virtinst/virtinst-0.500.3.tar.gz The virt-manager release includes: - 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 specify a bridge name, if bridge isn't detected by virt-manager The virtinst release includes: - 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 supported Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release through testing, bug reporting, submitting patches, and otherwise sending in feedback! Thanks, Cole