Red Hat the new version of the graphical interface for managing virtual environments — Virt-Manager 3.0.0. The Virt-Manager shell is written in Python/PyGTK and is a layer over and supports management of systems such as Xen, KVM, LXC, and QEMU. The project's code is licensed under GPLv2.
provides tools for visually assessing statistics on the performance and resource consumption of virtual machines, creating new virtual machines, and configuring and reallocating system resources. A viewer with support for VNC and SPICE protocols is provided for connecting to virtual machines. Additionally, command line utilities for creating and cloning virtual machines are included, as well as editing libvirt settings in XML format and creating a root file system.
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- support for installation with configuration via cloud-init (virt-install —cloud-init).
- The virt-convert utility has been removed, and instead, virt-v2v should be used. The number of configuration options via XML has been reduced, for which the provided XML editor is recommended.
- A manual installation mode has been added to the new virtual machine creation interface, allowing for the creation of a VM without an installation medium. Support for network installation has been discontinued (manual mode should be used for network booting).
- The interface for cloning virtual machines has been revamped.
- An XML settings editor has been added to the virtual machine transfer interface.
- Options have been added to disable auto-connection to the graphical console.
- The command line interface has been enhanced with options ‘—xml XPATH=VAL’ (for direct modification of XML settings), ‘—clock’, ‘—keywrap’, ‘—blkiotune’, ‘—cputune’, ‘—features kvm.hint-dedicated.state=’, ‘—iommu’, ‘—graphics websocket=’, ‘—disk type=nvme source.*’.
- Options ‘—reinstall=DOMAIN’, ‘—autoconsole text|graphical|none’, ‘—os-variant detect=on,require=on’ have been added to virt-install.
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