I am pleased to announce that the first release of the libvirt-designer package, version 0.0.1, is now available from ftp://ftp.libvirt.org/libvirt/designer/ The packages are GPG signed with Key fingerprint: DAF3 A6FD B26B 6291 2D0E 8E3F BE86 EBB4 1510 4FDF (4096R) New in this release: - Everything ! The libvirt-designer package provides a library that integrates libosinfo and libvirt-gconfig. Given an operating system identifier and libvirt host capabilities, it queries the libosinfo database to determine optimal hardware configuration and uses this information to design suitable domain XML for running the OS as a guest. In a similar manner it facilitates the setup of guest hardware devices such as disks, network interfaces, video cards, etc. These APIs are inspired by experience creating internal APIs for similar tasks in the virt-install/virt-manager projects. Since it builds on libosinfo and libvirt-gconfig, the libvirt-designer library relies on GObject introspection to provide access to its APIs for non-C programming languages. In addition it explicitly avoids a direct depedancy on libvirt.so, to enable usage by applications using alternative SNMP, CIM, etc bindings to libvirt, or those applications which simply need to construct libvirt XML without actually booting the guests afterwards. These early releases of libvirt-designer should be considered experimental. While we don't actively plan to change/break the API/ABI, we are not going to guarantee API/ABI stability of libvirt-designer at this time. Follow up comments about libvirt-designer should be directed to the regular libvir-list(a)redhat.com development list. Thanks to all the people involved in contributing to this release, in particular Michal who is actually doing the vast majority of the hard work here. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|