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

[Farkas Levente]

Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> 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.

hmm, although i already recompile all the required packages and we use
them since months without problems. the rpms can be found here:
http://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/redhat/5/

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