Current releases
virt-manager 2.0.0 Monday October 15, 2018
- Finish port to Python 3 (Radostin Stoyanov, Cole Robinson)
- Improved VM defaults for supported OS: q35 PCIe, usb3, CPU host-model
- Search based OS selection UI for new VMs (Daniel P. Berrangé, Cole Robinson)
- Track OS name for lifetime of domain in XML
- Host interface management UI has been completely removed
- Show domain IP on interface details page (Lin Ma, Cole Robinson)
- More efficient stats polling with AllDomainStats (Simon Kobyda, Cole Robinson)
- TPM device model and backend UI (Marc-André Lureau, Stefan Berger)
- Show connection state in UI (Lin Ma)
- Show attached devices in UI (Lin Ma)
- UI option to plug/unplug VM nic link (Simon Kobyda)
- UI support for disk discard and detect_zeroes (Povilas Kanapickas, Lin Ma)
- Improved SUSE –location URL/ISO detection (Charles Arnold)
- cli and UI support for SCSI persistent reservations (Lin Ma)
- cli: Add –network mtu.size= option (Anya Harter)
- cli: Add –disk driver.copy_on_read (Anya Harter)
- cli: Add –disk geometry support (Anya Harter)
- cli: Add –sound codec support (Anya Harter)
- cli: Add –hostdev net/char/block for LXC (Lubomir Rintel)
- cli: Add –memorybacking access_mode and source_type (Marc-André Lureau)
- cli: Add –boot rebootTimout (Yossi Ovadia)
- cli: Add –boot bootloader=
- cli: Add –destroy-on-exit
virt-viewer 7.0 (gpg) Friday Jul 27th, 2018 Win x86 MSI (gpg) Win x64 MSI (gpg)
Virt-viewer releases are GPG signed with a key having the fingerprint:
DAF3 A6FD B26B 6291 2D0E 8E3F BE86 EBB4 1510 4FDF (4096R)
This same fingerprint is listed at time of the release announcements mails on the mailing list
- Require spice-gtk >= 0.35
- Clarify error message when no running VM is found
- Improve check for libgovirt requirements
- Support “-” as a URI for input connection file
- Remove support for spice controller interface
- Misc man page fixes
- Lookup win32 translations relative to install dir
- Position connect window in center not top-left
- Misc fixes for ovirt foreign menu support
virt-bootstrap 1.1.0 (gpg) Thursday May 31st, 2018
- safe_untar: check for permissions to set attribs
- docker source, support blobs without .tar extension
- docker-source, preserve extended file attributes
- docker-source, get list of layers without `–raw`
- docker-source, void skopeo copy in cache
- Show error when guestfs-python or skopeo is not installed
- pylint cleanups
Previous releases
- virt-manager: Sources and Changelogs
- virt-viewer: Sources and Changelogs
- virt-bootstrap: Sources and Changelogs
Verifying gpg signatures
As a quick guide, to import a key from the key servers and verify downloads use.
$ gpg --recv-key 0xBE86EBB415104FDF $ gpg --fingerprint 0xBE86EBB415104FDF ...check it matches fingerprint above... $ gpg --verify SIGNATURE-FILE SOURCE-FILE