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This release fixes a couple of minor bugs. The detection of new
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Fedora distros is fixed. The ability to PXE boot install fully
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virtualized guests is enabled. Installation of QEMU guests from
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remote ISO images is fixed. Choice of default architecture is
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This release introduces the virt-image tool which provides the
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ability to create guests based on a pre-define image. The image
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provides metadata describing the required host virtualization
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capabilities, the recommend resource allocations and one or more
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pre-installed disk templates. From this is can instantiate new
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guests on any suitable hypervisor supported by libvirt. With
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the virt-install tool, all new fullyvirtualized guests now get
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a USB tablet device configured providing an easier to use pointer.
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Further improvements are made to input validation to catch user
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errors earlier. Use of the 'xm console' and 'vncviewer' external
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programs has been replaced with 'virsh console' and 'virt-viewer'
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This release introduces the virt-clone tool which provides the
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ability to clone an existing inactive guest. The disk images
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will be copied, new MAC address, UUID and name will be given to
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the guest. Documentation is improved with the addition of manual
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pages for both virt-install and virt-clone. Validation of input
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parameters has been further enhanced, and re-factored to allow
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sharing with virt-manager. The virt-install tool can be used to
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boot live CD images, with or without underlying storage.
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This release has again focused on stablization and input
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validation. UUIDs are now checked for syntactic correctness.
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Fixed clashes with disk name & CDROM. Automatically reboot
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Windows guest installs with CDROM still attached. The '-'
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character is allowed in guest names. OS types /variants are
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now specified using their short names. The way Red Hat distros
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are detected is changed to be more robust, and cope with CentOS
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and RHEL 5 tree layouts.
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This release has focused on stabilization & improved validation
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of user inputs. MAC addresses, UUIDs are checked for uniqueness
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wrt to other virtual machines. A few minor bug fixes to avoid
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deprecated python features, and installation bugs are resolved.
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This release introduces the first support for provisioning
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of QEMU / KVM virtual machines. This requires an updated
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libvirt of at least 0.2.0 to enable the qemu driver. The
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code for fetching bootable kernel/initrd images has been
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refactored to facilitate porting to deal with other non
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Fedora / RHEL operating systems. Prototype support for dealing
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with SuSE paravirtualized installs is provided. The bootable
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ISO image for fully virtualized installs can also be fetched
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at runtime from an NFS/HTTP/FTP site, or equivalent initrd
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and kernels for baremetal. A list of guest operating systems
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is now maintained to enable virtual hardware configuration
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to be optimized to suit a particular guest OS.
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