[virt-tools-list] [fedora-virt] ANNOUNCE: New releases virt-manager 0.8.3 and virtinst 0.500.2

[Cole Robinson]

On 02/11/2010 12:26 AM, Laine Stump wrote:
> On 02/09/2010 10:25 AM, Cole Robinson wrote:
>> I'm happy to announce two new releases:
>>
>> virt-manager 0.8.3: virt-manager is a desktop application for managing
>> KVM and Xen virtual machines via libvirt.
>>    
> 
> Note that this new virt-manager exposes a memory leak in the augeas 
> library (used by the netcf library, which libvirt uses for the  host 
> interface config APIs). After several hours of an open host connection 
> in virt-manager, libvirt's memory footprint grows to several hundred MB.
> 
> The cause of the leak has been found, and a patch submitted, but if 
> anyone wants to avoid this leak in the interim, you can get the augeas 
> source from:
> 
>    git clone git://git.fedorahosted.org/git/augeas.git
> 
> and apply the attached patch.

Thanks a lot for tracking this down! It's probably I good idea to get
this patch into rawhide ASAP before we hit a slew of bug reports from
the fedora alpha.

Thanks,
Cole