Virt-Manager 0.8.7 Released: New UI Features
Last week the latest version of virt-manager was released featuring some new UI features. Since the release of this latest version, there hasn’t been any published rpms on the virt-preview repository yet. I’ve decided to included some rpms that you can use if you’re currently running fedora 14 until they become available on the virt-preview repository.
The UI changes included with this release are small but if you use virt-manager regularly, you’ll appreciate these little changes. Personally my favourite UI feature is the fact that you can now change what network your virtual nic is tied to without having to delete and re-create it. Another small handy feature is that you can actually rename your virtual machine in the GUI. Below shows a snapshot of some of these new features.
Below shows new interface for changing your VM network
Below shows new interface for renaming your VM.
The changelog for this latest release is shown below.
Virt-manager 0.8.7
- Allow renaming an offline VM
- Spice password support (Marc-André Lureau)
- Allow editting NIC <virtualport> settings (Gerhard Stenzel)
- Allow enabling/disabling individual CPU features
- Allow easily changing graphics type between VNC and SPICE for existing VM
- Allow easily changing network source device for existing VM
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| virt-manager-0.8.7-1.fc14.noarch.rpm | 1 MB |
| python-virtinst-0.500.6-1.fc14.noarch.rpm | 615.72 KB |
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QXL / Spice issue
Friday, April 1, 2011 - 23:19 Obidoub (not verified)Hello,
Thanks a lot for .rpm packages, I installed them in my Fedora 14 x86_64.
I actually have a virtualized Debian Squeeze Server and I tried to switch from VNC to Spice (offline).
It does not work, an Python error says that "Spice" does not exists: "libvirtError: internal error unknown graphics device type 'spice'"
For VGA driver, QXL is listed but not appliable: "libvirtError: internal error unknown video model 'qxl'"
Any idea? It's a server so I mostly use it with SSH. My libvirt version may be too old?
qxl / spice issue
Saturday, April 2, 2011 - 16:47 Haydn SolomonYes that does sound like your libvirt version may be too old. Do you use the virt-preview fedora repository?
spicevmc not supported in this QEMU binary
Sunday, April 24, 2011 - 21:14 matt (not verified)Hi Haydn,
First off let me say thank you. I'm a huge Qemu/libvirt fan. I'm really excited about the possibilities for spice and thin client computing. I've been trying hard for a couple of days to get virt-preview repo updates working with spice. My XP guest will not start and virt-manager returns the following:
"Error starting domain: unsupported configuration: spicevmc not supported in this QEMU binary"
Googling this error turns up nothing. I'm not sure what spicevmc is? I would think that the virt-preview repo would come with spice enabled binaries? So do I need to change how QEMU is started? Must QEMU be recompiled by source? I've browsed through the docs and didn't notice this, nor was it mentioned in blog posts of our fellows that have it working.
The way I see it, more people can migrate to Linux if they can watch netflix and run proprietary web services. I have serious doubts about WINE and Mono/Moonlight to this end. If you can help me, I'll post the result here and write a blog tutorial for others in need. Thanks and good luck!
Matt Birkland
Network Engineer
VoiceIP Solutions
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 45, in cb_wrapper
callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 959, in asyncfunc
vm.startup()
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 1128, in startup
self._backend.create()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 330, in create
if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreate() failed', dom=self)
libvirtError: unsupported configuration: spicevmc not supported in this QEMU binary
It works, thanks. I just
Thursday, April 28, 2011 - 05:24 Obidoub (not verified)It works, thanks.
I just discovered the virt-preview repo, nice!!
The more I discover KVM/VirtManager/SPICE features, the more I like.
I ran a personal server on KVM (fedora host and debian guest) for a month, with virtio (block/nic), spice and routed networking, I never had any problem. No performance issues (just had to disable cache for qcow2 storage), no bug. Very nice.
same problem
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 14:16 Cristiano (not verified)hy i have the same problem.
can you help me?
above spice problems
Friday, March 23, 2012 - 08:27 Oliver Leitner (not verified)to get spice working, you need to add two ppa's, i followed these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/spice
it seems that the oneiric qemu package doesnt include spice support, with this instructions you will get it running...
greetings
Oliver
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