virt-manager

v4.1.0

• Fix build with setuptools-61 (Peter Alfredsen, Miro Hrončok)
• add UI and cli support for qemu-vdagent channel (Jonathon Jongsma)
• cli: More --iothreads suboptions (Lin Ma)
• launch_security: Use SEV-ES policy=0x07 if host supports it (Charles
  Arnold)
• cli: Add support for URL query with disks (Martin Kletzander)

v4.0.0

• virt-install --os-variant/--osinfo is now a hard requirement for most
  cases
• Add 'Enable shared memory' UI checkbox (Lin Ma)
• add UI preference to default to UEFI for new VMs (Charles Arnold)
• Add virtiofs filesystem driver UI option
• Fill in all --cputune, --cpu, --shmem, --input, and --boot suboptions
  (Hugues Fafard)
• virt-* mdev improvements (Shalini Chellathurai Saroja)
• bhyve improvments (Roman Bogorodskiy)
• Revive network portgroup UI
• enable a TPM by default when UEFI is used (Daniel P. Berrangé)
• Use cpu host-passthrough by default on qemu x86
• use virtio-gpu video for most modern distros
• Default to extra pcie root ports for q35
• set discard=unmap by default for sparse disks and block devices
• We now require xorissofs for --location ISO
• We now use setuptools rather than just plain distutils

v3.2.0

• Slim down filesystem device editor UI
• Fix TOCTTOU virt-install bugs (Martin Pitt)
• Several other bug fixes

v3.1.0

• Return to using qcow2 sparse by default with libvirt 5.0.0+
• Make VM window shortcuts less likely to conflict with guest usage
• Fix 3.0.0 regression with spice audio
• createvol: Add explicit option for qcow2 non-sparse
• Unconditionally add USB redirdev to new VMs when using SPICE
• Unconditionally add sound devices to new VMs
• Translation string improvements (Pino Toscano)

• virt-install --cloud-init support (Athina Plaskasoviti, Cole Robinson)
• The virt-convert tool has been removed. Please use virt-v2v instead
• A handful of UI XML configuration options have been removed. The XML
  editor can be used instead. For a larger discussion see this thread:
  https://www.redhat.com/archives/virt-tools-list/2019-June/msg00117.html
• The 'New VM' UI now has a 'Manual Install' option which creates a VM
  without any required install media
• In the 'New VM' UI, the network/pxe install option has been removed. If
  you need network boot, choose 'Manual Install' and set the boot device after
  initial VM creation
• 'Clone VM' UI has been reworked and simplified
• 'Migrate VM' UI now has an XML editor for the destination VM
• Global and per-vm option to disable graphical console autoconnect. This
  makes it easier to use virt-manager alongside another client like virt-
  viewer
• virt-manager: set guest time after VM restore (Michael Weiser)
• virt-manager: option to delete storage when removing disk device (Lily
  Nie)
• virt-manager: show warnings if snapshot operation is unsafe (Michael
  Weiser)
• Unattended install improvements (Fabiano Fidêncio)
• cli: new --xml XPATH=VAL option for making direct XML changes
• virt-install: new --reinstall=DOMAIN option
• virt-install: new --autoconsole text|graphical|none option
• virt-install: new --os-variant detect=on,require=on suboptions
• cli: --clock, --keywrap, --blkiotune, --cputune additions (Athina
  Plaskasoviti)
• cli: add --features kvm.hint-dedicated.state= (Menno Lageman)
• cli:--iommu option (Menno Lageman)
• cli: Add --graphics websocket= support (Petr Benes)
• cli: Add --disk type=nvme source.* suboptions
• cli: Fill in all --filesystem suboptions
• Translation string improvements (Pino Toscano)
• Convert from .pod to .rst for man pages
• Switch to pytest as our test runner
• Massively improved unittest and uitest code coverage
• Now using github issues as our bug tracker