[et-mgmt-tools] ANNOUNCE: virt-manager 0.5.3 and virtinst 0.300.2 releases

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Jan 10, 2008 8:37 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 08:28:52PM -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> > On Jan 10, 2008 7:05 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > I'm happy to announce the availability of virt-manager 0.5.3 and
> > > virtinst 0.300.2 bug fix releases on the download page:
> > >
> > >    http://virt-manager.org/download.html
> > >
> > > The virt-manager-0.5.3 release:
> > >
> > > http://virt-manager.org/download/sources/virt-manager/virt-manager-0.5.3.tar.gz
> > >
> > > This is a bug fix release. The sizing of the VNC window is fixed for
> > > screens where the physical size is less than the guest screen size.
> > > The 'new vm' button is switched back to its old (more obvious style/
> > > placement). Restore of VMs is working again for local connections. A
> > > menu for sending special key sequences to the guest is added. Lots
> > > of other misc bug fixes
> > >
> >
> > What is the status of these working with RHEL-5? I am mostly trying to
> > gauge if these are  for Fedora 9 or could be used with CentOS/RHEL?
>
> They won't work on RHEL-5.1 because they require a newer version of libvirt
> than is present, and remote management also requires newer support for VNC
> encryption in Xen. They should work on F-7 or later,and I will be pushing
> updates to Fedora soon
>

Foo. Sigh.. ok thanks. the libvirt I could see updating.. but the Xen
changes would be a massive item.

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Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
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