Virt-Manager; Rhba-2009:1285: Enhancement And Bug Fix Update - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5.4 - TECHNICAL NOTES Manual

Chapter 1. Package Updates
• in the previous vino package, there were no visual indicators when someone was connected to
your desktop. In this updated package, a status icon appears whenever someone is connected.
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Users of vino are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which adds this enhancement.

1.234. virt-manager

1.234.1. RHBA-2009:1285: enhancement and bug fix update

An updated virt-manager package that fixes several bugs and adds enhancements is now available.
The Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager) package provides a graphical tool for administering
virtualized guests running on the Xen and KVM hypervisors. The virt-manager application uses the
libvirt API to manage virtualized guests and hypervisors.
Bugs fixed in the updated virt-manager package include:
• Fully virtualized guests created with virt-manager are sometimes affected by a bug that prevents the
mouse from moving freely throughout the screen. To work around this issue configure a USB tablet
device for the guest with virt-manager.
• The virt-manager help documentation was out-of-date and broken. Presently, the documentation
has been removed from the virt-manager to address the various issue and the 'help' buttons and
menu items have been removed. Updated documentation is in development and may be available
with future releases.
• Running virt-manager in unprivileged mode listed guests twice when connecting to remote hosts. If
the remote host was disconnected and reconnected the list would double again. Every guest entry,
including the duplicate entries could activate the guest. This issue is now resolved and only the
available guests will be listed for a remote host.
• virt-manager would hang when attempting to connect to a Xen hypervisor with SSH. The updated
virt-manager package has enhanced remote connection awareness and this issue no longer
presents. (BZ#484063
• Adding or removing a device during the guest installation procedure sometimes caused the guest
to become unbootable. This behavior has been fixed in the updated package and devices can be
added or removed during the installation.
• Changing memory allocation for running guests in virt-manager had no effect. This issue is resolved
in the updated package and memory changes update correctly.
• Migrations with the virt-manager Migrate option failed due to incorrect parameters being sent to
libvirt. The correct parameters are sent in the updated package.
This updated virt-manager package provides the following enhancements:
• virt-manager has been rebased to support the KVM hypervisor.
• Users can now add a sound for virtualized guests on the KVM hypervisor. Sound cards are optional
for virtualized guests. The only available and default sound card device is an emulated AC97
device. (BZ#506035
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