FWN/Issue187

= Fedora Weekly News Issue 187 =

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 187 for the week ending August 2, 2009.

This week's issue kicks off with updated details on the Fedora 12 (Constantine) schedule, including an update on feature set scheduled for this week. From the Fedora Planet, tips on how to create your own system branding when building Fedora, lots of detail on debugging random screen blanking in Fedora, and thoughts on why to hate quick software benchmarking. From the Quality Assurance team, details from a discussion around Phoronix's Linux distribution benchmarking in relation to Fedora, fixes to the Test Day live image, and many updates on the weekly meetings related to QA. In Ambassador news, a report from the Congress of Free Software in Caracas, Venezuela and the Venezuela Fedora Team's presence there. In translation news, several updates to translation.fedoraproject.org, details on the Fedora 12 Translation schedule, and new translations for the Quick Start Guide in eighteen different languages. From the Art team, updates on theming Fedora 12 Alpha and details on cutting the Fedora logo on a steel plate. This week issue comes to a finale with news on virtualization, including discussion of how to distribute I/O load across guests, and details on new releases of virt-manager, virtinst, and virt-viewer. These are just a few highlights of this week's FWN. Enjoy!

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FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson

is a module that helps build and install  based virtual machines. It currently supports,   and   virtual machines. Package includes several command line utilities, including  (build and install new VMs) and   (clone an existing virtual machine).

New features:
 * New virt-install device options --serial, --parallel, and --video
 * Allow various auth types for libvirt connections (PolicyKit, SASL, ...)
 * New virt-clone option --auto-clone: generates all needed input.
 * Option to specify network device model via virt-install --network (Guido Gunther)
 * New virt-install option --virt-type for specifying hypervisor type (kvm, qemu). --accelerate is now the default behavior: To provision a plain qemu VM on a KVM enabled host, use '--virt-type qemu'
 * OVF input support for virt-convert
 * Many bug fixes and improvements

New Release virt-viewer 0.2.0
Daniel Berrange announced a new release, version 0.2.0.

New features:
 * Switch UI over to use Glade
 * Support graphical dialog for VNC and libvirt authentication
 * Resize window to match VNC desktop size where possible
 * Scale down VNC desktop if it cannot fit in host desktop space
 * Allow user to resize window to arbitrary size, scaling VNC
 * Fix blocking of accelerators
 * Allow automatic reconnect to a VM via --reconnect
 * Use libvirt events to detect when VM changes state
 * Wait for VM to appear if it does not exist
 * Fix plugin build with newer xulrunner
 * Port & build for Mingw32 target