[et-mgmt-tools] virt-manager 0.4.0 / virtinst 0.103.0

[Daniel P. Berrange]

I'm pleased to announce the availability of virt-manager 0.4.0 and virtinst
0.103.0 for download at

  http://virt-manager.org/download.html

For virt-manager this release introduces major new functionality. There is 
new UI for the creation & management of virtual networks using the new 
libvirt networking APIs. The guest creation wizard can now attach VMs to a 
virtual network or shared physical devices. The initial connection dialog 
is no longer shown, either a QEMU or Xen connection is automatically opened 
based on host kernel capabilities. For existing guests there is support for 
the addition and removal of both disk & network devices (hot-add/remove too 
if supported by the virtualization platform being used - eg Xen paravirt). 
The keymap for guest VNC server is automatically set based on the local 
keymap to assist people using non-English keyboard layouts. There is 
improved error reporting for a number of critical operations such as 
starting guests / connecting to the hypervisor.

  http://virt-manager.org/download/sources/virt-manager/virt-manager-0.4.0.tar.gz

Screenshots of the new networking functionality are available on the website

  http://virt-manager.org/screenshots.html

For virtinst this release has again focused on stabalization 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.

  http://virt-manager.org/download/sources/virtinst/virtinst-0.103.0.tar.gz

Thanks go out to all the people who have contributed to these releases both
through testing, and by submitting bug fixes & implementing features.

Regards,
Dan.
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