[virt-tools-list] [libvirt] ANNOUNCE: virt-manager 0.9.0 and virtinst 0.600.0 released

[Laine Stump]

On 07/28/2011 12:31 PM, Cole Robinson wrote:
> [...]
> The virt-manager release includes:
>
> - Use a hiding toolbar for fullscreen mode
> - Use libguestfs to show guest packagelist and more (Richard W.M. Jones)
> - Basic 'New VM' wizard support for LXC guests
> - Remote serial console access (with latest libvirt)
> - Remote URL guest installs (with latest libvirt)
> - Add Hardware: Support<filesystem>  devices
> - Add Hardware: Support<smartcard>  devices (Marc-André Lureau)
> - Enable direct interface selection for qemu/kvm (Gerhard Stenzel)

This piece is really cool, but it goes a bit too far in deciding which 
interfaces to add. In particular, it also lists the tap interfaces of 
already-existing guests (the ones used to connect between qemu and the 
host interface/bridge, e.g. "vnet0") as well as the dummy interfaces 
that are created to give each libvirt virtual network a fixed MAC 
address (e.g. virbr0-nic).

All of these interface names could be found by perusing the domain and 
network XML. In addition, the virbrX-nic interfaces are all marked 
"down" - you may want to only show interfaces that are up.