[libvirt] ANNOUNCE: virt-manager 0.8.7 and virtinst 0.500.6 released

I'm happy to announce two new releases: virt-manager 0.8.7: virt-manager is a desktop application for managing KVM and Xen virtual machines via libvirt. virtinst 0.500.6: 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-0.8.7.tar... http://virt-manager.org/download/sources/virtinst/virtinst-0.500.6.tar.gz Here are the highlights for the past 2 releases (since I neglected to send out a release announcement for the previous round :) ) The virt-manager release includes: virt-manager 0.8.7: - Allow renaming an offline VM - Spice password support (Marc-André Lureau) - Allow editting NIC <virtualport> settings (Gerhard Stenzel) - Allow enabling/disabling individual CPU features - Allow easily changing graphics type between VNC and SPICE for existing VM - Allow easily changing network source device for existing VM virt-manager 0.8.6: - SPICE support (requires spice-gtk) (Marc-André Lureau) - Option to configure CPU model - Option to configure CPU topology - Save and migration cancellation (Wen Congyang) - Save and migration progress reporting - Option to enable bios boot menu - Option to configure direct kernel/initrd boot virtinst 0.500.6: - virt-install: --graphics spice now enables spicevmc and qxl - virt-install: New --disk parameter io=native|threads virtinst 0.500.5: - New virt-install --cpu option for configuring CPU model/features - virt-install --vcpus option can not specify topology and maxvcpus - New virt-install --graphics option to unify --vnc, --sdl, spice config - New virt-install --print-xml option to skip install and print XML Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release through testing, bug reporting, submitting patches, and otherwise sending in feedback! Thanks, Cole
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Cole Robinson