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Current releases

virt-manager 0.9.4 Sunday July 29, 2012

0.9.4 is a bugfix release for 0.9.2, fixing VNC keyboard focus issues. 0.9.2 changelog:

Convert to gtkbuilder: UI can now be editted with modern glade tool
virt-manager no longer runs on RHEL5, but can manage a remote RHEL5 host
Option to configure spapr net and disk devices for pseries (Li Zhang)
Many bug fixes and improvements

virtinst 0.600.3 Sunday July 29, 2012

0.600.3 is a bugfix release, fixing virt-install --cpuset=auto, and cloning to an existing managed block device. 0.600.2 changelog:

virt-install: New --memballoon option (Eiichi Tsukata)
virt-install: Improved qemu/kvm pseries support (Li Zhang, Qing Lin)
virt-install: Support setting BIOS path using -boot loader=PATH
Various bug fixes and improvements

virt-viewer 0.5.4 Monday Sep 17th, 2012

Fix host migration with Spice
Fix misc memory leaks
Fix build with newer glibc and -O0
Improve automatic fullscreen Spice configuration
Avoid crash when quiting application
Rebuild display men whenever a window is added/removed
Number displays starting from 1 instead of 0
Add support for handling multiple monitors with Spice
Menu display menu insensitive if no displays can be selected
Use real binary name in remote-viewer help message
Document -f=auto-conf in remote-viewer help

virt-manager

virt-manager 0.9.3 Monday July 09, 2012
virt-manager 0.9.2 Monday July 09, 2012
virt-manager 0.9.1 Tuesday January 31, 2012
virt-manager 0.9.0 Tuesday July 26, 2011
virt-manager 0.8.7 Thursday March 24, 2011
virt-manager 0.8.6 Friday January 14, 2011
virt-manager 0.8.5 Tuesday August 24, 2010
virt-manager 0.8.4 Wednesday March 24, 2010
virt-manager 0.8.3 Monday February 9th, 2010
virt-manager 0.8.2 Monday December 14th, 2009
virt-manager 0.8.1 Thursday December 3rd, 2009
virt-manager 0.8.0 Tuesday July 28th, 2009
virt-manager 0.7.0 Monday Mar 9th, 2009
virt-manager 0.6.1 Monday Jan 26th, 2009
virt-manager 0.6.0 Wednesday Sep 10th, 2008
virt-manager 0.5.4 Monday Mar 10th, 2008
virt-manager 0.5.3 Thursday Jan 10th, 2008
virt-manager 0.5.2 Thursday Oct 4th, 2007
virt-manager 0.5.1 Tuesday Sep 25th, 2007
virt-manager 0.5.0 Wednesday Aug 29th, 2007
virt-manager 0.4.0 Monday Apr 16th, 2007
virt-manager 0.3.2 Tuesday Mar 20th, 2007
virt-manager 0.3.1 Wednesday Feb 21st, 2007
virt-manager 0.3.0 Monday Jan 22nd, 2007
virt-manager 0.2.6 Thursday Nov 9th, 2006
virt-manager 0.2.5 Thursday Oct 19th, 2006
virt-manager 0.2.4 Thursday Oct 12th, 2006
virt-manager 0.2.3 Tuesday Sep 26th, 2006
virt-manager 0.2.2 Friday Sep 15th, 2006
virt-manager 0.2.1 Monday Sep 11th, 2006
virt-manager 0.2.0 Tuesday Aug 22nd, 2006
virt-manager 0.1.5 Thursday July 20th, 2006
virt-manager 0.1.3 Monday July 17th, 2006
virt-manager 0.1.2 Wednesday Jun 28th, 2006

virtinst

virtinst 0.600.2 Monday July 09, 2012
virtinst 0.600.1 Tuesday January 31, 2012
virtinst 0.600.0 Tuesday July 26, 2011
virtinst 0.500.6 Thursday March 24, 2011
virtinst 0.500.5 Friday January 14, 2011
virtinst 0.500.4 Tuesday August 24, 2010
virtinst 0.500.3 Wednesday March 24, 2010
virtinst 0.500.2 Monday February 8th, 2010
virtinst 0.500.1 Thursday December 3rd, 2009
virtinst 0.500.0 Tuesday July 28th, 2009
virtinst 0.400.3 Monday March 9th, 2009
virtinst 0.400.2 Tuesday March 3rd, 2009
virtinst 0.400.1 Monday Jan 26th, 2009
virtinst 0.400.0 Wednesday Sep 10th, 2008
virtinst 0.300.3 Monday Mar 10th, 2008
virtinst 0.300.2 Thursday Jan 10th, 2008
virtinst 0.300.1 Tuesday Sep 25th, 2007
virtinst 0.300.0 Wednesday Aug 29th, 2007
virtinst 0.200.0 Wednesday Jul 18th, 2007
virtinst 0.103.0 Monday Apr 16th, 2007
virtinst 0.102.0 Tuesday Mar 20th, 2007
virtinst 0.101.0 Wednesday Feb 21st, 2007
virtinst 0.100.0 Monday Jan 22nd, 2007
virtinst 0.99.0 Friday Dec 15th, 2006
virtinst 0.98.0 Thursday Nov 30th, 2006
virtinst 0.97.0 Monday Nov 20th, 2006
virtinst 0.96.0 Wednesday Oct 18th, 2006
virtinst 0.95.0 Thursday Oct 12th, 2006

virt-viewer

virt-viewer 0.5.3 Wednesday May 16th, 2012
virt-viewer 0.5.2 Friday March 9th, 2012
virt-viewer 0.5.1 Friday Februrary 17th, 2012
virt-viewer 0.5.0 Tuesday February 14th, 2012
virt-viewer 0.4.2 Wednesday November 9th, 2011
virt-viewer 0.4.1 Thursday August 4th, 2011
virt-viewer 0.4.0 Tuesday, July 12th, 2011
virt-viewer 0.3.1 Monday Feb 21st, 2011
virt-viewer 0.3.0 Monday Feb 21st, 2011
virt-viewer 0.2.1 Friday Jan 15th, 2010
virt-viewer 0.2.0 Wednesday Jul 20th, 2009
virt-viewer 0.0.3 Monday Mar 10th, 2007
virt-viewer 0.0.2 Wednesday Aug 29th, 2007
virt-viewer 0.0.1 Wednesday Aug 15th, 2007

Pre-requisites

Virtual Machine Manager has the following dependancies

python >= 2.4 - virt-manager is written in Python!
pygtk2 >= 1.99.12-6 - the Python GTK2 bindings are used for the UI
gnome-python2-gconf >= 1.99.11-7 - GConf stores application preferences
libvirt-python >= 0.4.0 - libVirt is for talking to Xen, QEMU, KVM and other virtualization backensd
dbus-python >= 0.61 - optionally expose a service on the bus for control of the UI
gnome-python-desktop >= 2.15.4 - optionally store VNC server passwords in GNOME keyring
libxml2-python >= 2.6.23 - used to parse XML from libvirt
vte >= 0.12.2 - for displaying / interacting with the serial console
virtinst >= 0.300.3 - python library for assisting in creating VMs
gtk-vnc-python >= 0.3.4 - GTK widget for displaying VNC sessions

Virt Install/Clone/Image have the following dependancies

python >= 2.4 - virt-manager is written in Python!
libvirt-python >= 0.4.0 - libVirt is for talking to Xen, QEMU, KVM and other virtualization backends

Virtual Machine Viewer has the following dependnacies

libvirt >= 0.6.0 - libVirt is for finding the VNC server config of a guest
GTK-VNC >= 0.3.8 - provides the VNC display widget

Binaries

Binary builds of virt-manager are not distributed directly, rather it is left to OS distributors to package virt-manager according to their own standards.

Fedora

Virt Machine Manager is available in Fedora since Fedora Core 6 and can be installed with the command:

# yum install virt-manager

Depending on whether one wants to manage Xen or QEMU/KVM virtual machines one must also install either

# yum install xen kernel-xen

# yum install qemu kvm

Gentoo

Virt Machine Manager is available in Gentoo using the usual emerge tool

# emerge virt-manager

FreeBSD

Virt Machine Manager is available in FreeBSD using either the ports collection or the pkg_add utility.

# cd /usr/ports/deskutils/virt-manager && make install clean

# pkg_add -r virt-manager

If you package virt-manager for another distribution let us know and details can be added to this page.