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   Virtinst News

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Release 0.600.1 (January 31, 2012)

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- virt-install: --redir option for usb redirection (Marc-André Lureau)

- virt-install: Advanced --controller support for usb2 (Marc-André

  Lureau)

- Many bug fixes and minor improvments.

Release 0.600.0 (July 26, 2011)

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- virt-install: Various improvements to enable LXC/container guests:

- New --filesystem option for <filesystem> devices

- New --init option for container <init> path

- New --container option (similar to --paravirt or --hvm)

- virt-install: Make --location  remotely (with latest libvirt)

- virt-install: New --smartcard option for <smartcard> devices

- (Marc-André Lureau)

- virt-install: New --numatune option for building guest <numatune> XML

- virt-install: option to set --disk error_policy=

- virt-install: option to set --disk serial=

Release 0.500.6 (March 24, 2011)

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- virt-install: --graphics spice now enables spicevmc and qxl

- virt-install: New --disk parameter io=native|threads

Release 0.500.5 (Jan 14, 2011)

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- 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

Release 0.500.4 (August 24, 2010)

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- New virt-install --console option for specifying virtio console device

- New virt-install --channel option for specifying guest communication

  channel

- New virt-install --boot option. Allows setting post-install boot

  order, direct kernel/initrd boot, and enabling boot device menu.

- New virt-install --initrd-inject option, which enables installation

  using a _local_ kickstart file (Colin Walters)

Release 0.500.3 (March 24, 2010)

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- virt-install: New --watchdog option: configure a virtual watchdog device

- 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 settings

- virt-install: New --description option: set a human readable description

- Better OS defaults: Use <video> VGA and <sound> AC97 if supported

Release 0.500.2 (February 8, 2010)

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 - virt-install: New option --autostart for setting domain autostart flag

 - virt-install: Allow specifying --host-device with lsusb and lspci

                 format (0x1234:0x5678 for USB, etc)

 - virtinst: New 'Interface' module for building libvirt interface XML

Release 0.500.1 (December 3, 2009)

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 - virt-install now attempts --os-variant detection by default. This can be

        disabled with '--os-variant none' (distro detection currently only

        works for URL installs)

 - New --disk option 'format', for creating image formats like qcow2 or vmdk

 - Many improvements and bugfixes

Release 0.500.0 (July 28, 2009)

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This release includes:

 - New virt-install device options --serial, --parallel, and --video

 - Allow various auth types for libvirt connections (PolicyKit, SASL, ...)

 - New virt-clone option --auto-clone: generates all needed input.

 - Option to specify network device model via virt-install --network

     (Guido Gunther)

 - New virt-install option --virt-type for specifying hypervisor type

     (kvm, qemu). --accelerate is now the default behavior: To provision a

     plain qemu VM on a KVM enabled host, use '--virt-type qemu'

 - OVF input support for virt-convert

 - Many bug fixes and improvements

Release 0.400.3 (March 9, 2009)

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This is largely a bug fix release, which fixes several annoying bugs present

in virtinst-0.400.2:

 - virt-install --file was busted

 - virt-install --os-type windows was busted for --cdrom installs

 - virt-install --os-variant values weren't used if installing from a URL

Release 0.400.2 (March 3, 2009)

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  - New virt-clone option --original-xml, allows cloning a guest from

      an xml file, rather than require an existing, defined guest.

  - New virt-install option --import, allows creating a guest from an

      existing disk image, bypassing any OS install phase.

  - New virt-install option --host-device, for connecting a physical

      host device to the guest.

  - Allow specifying 'cache' value via virt-install's --disk options

      (Ben Kochie)

  - New virt-install option --nonetworks (John Levon)

  - Lots of backend cleanups and documentation improvements.

Release 0.400.1 (January 26, 2009)

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This release includes:

  - Add virt-image -> vmx support to virt-convert, replacing virt-pack

      (Joey Boggs)

  - Add disk checksum support to virt-image (Joey Boggs)

  - Enhanced URL install support: Debian Xen paravirt, Ubuntu kernel and

      boot.iso, Mandriva kernel, and Solaris Xen Paravirt (Guido Gunther,

      John Levon, Cole Robinson)

  - Expanded test suite

  - Numerous bug fixes, cleanups, and minor improvements

Release 0.400.0 (September 10, 2008)

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This release includes:

  - New tool 'virt-convert': Allows converting between different types of

      virt configuration files. Currently only supports vmx -> virt-image

  - New tool 'virt-pack': Converts virt-image xml format to vmx and packs

      in a tar.gz. (Note this will likely be merged with virt-convert in

      the future)

  - virt-install: Support for remote VM installation. Can use install media

      and disk images on remote host if shared via libvirt. Allows can

      provisioning storage on remote pools.

  - virt-install new options:

      new --wait option, allows putting a hard time limit on installs

      new --sound option, to create VM with soundcard emulation

      new --disk option, allows specifying media as a path, storage volume, or

        a pool to provision storage on, device type, and several other options.

        Deprecates --file, --size, --nonsparse.

      new --prompt option. Input prompting is no longer the default, this

        option turns it back on.

  - virt-install: allow setting cpu pinning information for qemu/kvm VMs

  - virt-install: numa support via --cpuset=auto option

  - virt-image: --replace option to overwrite existing VM image file

  - virt-image: support multiple network interfaces in virt-image format

  - use virtio disk/net drivers if chosen os entry supports it (Fedora 9/10,

      Ubuntu Hardy)

  - Numerous bug fixes and minor improvements.

Release 0.300.3

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This release addresses a number of major bugs, and optimizes

aspecst of the installation process. When probing for OS distro

type it will test file existance, rather than fetching the entire

file. RFC compliant NFS uris are now accepted & converted where

needed.  When probing for Red Hat distro variants, look for the

.treeinfo file to determine initrd/kernel locations. Print user

friendly error instead of stack traces, and hide bogus libvirt

error messages from console. Add a --noreboot flag to virt-install

to prevent the automatic reboot at end of installation. Use the

libvirt capabilities XML to determine the guest types supported

by a hypervisor. Add --force option to prevent any interactive

prompting.

Release 0.300.2

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This release fixes a couple of minor bugs. XML attributes are

correctly escaped in the XML. vCPUs can be pinned to pCPUs at

install time. Windows guests will be automatically configured

to use localtime. Improved input validation

Release 0.300.1

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This release fixes a couple of minor bugs. The detection of new

Fedora distros is fixed. The ability to PXE boot install fully

virtualized guests is enabled. Installation of QEMU guests from

remote ISO images is fixed. Choice of default architecture is

fixed on 32-bit.

Release 0.300.0

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This release introduces the virt-image tool which provides the

ability to create guests based on a pre-define image. The image

provides metadata describing the required host virtualization

capabilities, the recommend resource allocations and one or more

pre-installed disk templates. From this is can instantiate new

guests on any suitable hypervisor supported by libvirt. With

the virt-install tool, all new fullyvirtualized guests now get

a USB tablet device configured providing an easier to use pointer.

Further improvements are made to input validation to catch user

errors earlier. Use of the 'xm console' and 'vncviewer' external

programs has been replaced with 'virsh console' and 'virt-viewer'

Release 0.200.0

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This release introduces the virt-clone tool which provides the

ability to clone an existing inactive guest. The disk images

will be copied, new MAC address, UUID and name will be given to

the guest. Documentation is improved with the addition of manual

pages for both virt-install and virt-clone. Validation of input

parameters has been further enhanced, and re-factored to allow

sharing with virt-manager. The virt-install tool can be used to

boot live CD images, with or without underlying storage.

Release 0.103.0

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This release has again focused on stablization and input

validation. UUIDs are now checked for syntactic correctness.

Fixed clashes with disk name & CDROM. Automatically reboot

Windows guest installs with CDROM still attached. The '-'

character is allowed in guest names. OS types /variants are

now specified using their short names. The way Red Hat distros

are detected is changed to be more robust, and cope with CentOS

and RHEL 5 tree layouts.

Release 0.102.0

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This release has focused on stabilization & improved validation

of user inputs. MAC addresses, UUIDs are checked for uniqueness

wrt to other virtual machines. A few minor bug fixes to avoid

deprecated python features, and installation bugs are resolved.

Release 0.101.0

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This release introduces the first support for provisioning

of QEMU / KVM virtual machines. This requires an updated

libvirt of at least 0.2.0 to enable the qemu driver. The

code for fetching bootable kernel/initrd images has been

refactored to facilitate porting to deal with other non

Fedora / RHEL operating systems. Prototype support for dealing

with SuSE paravirtualized installs is provided. The bootable

ISO image for fully virtualized installs can also be fetched

at runtime from an NFS/HTTP/FTP site, or equivalent initrd

and kernels for baremetal. A list of guest operating systems

is now maintained to enable virtual hardware configuration 

to be optimized to suit a particular guest OS.