Boxes 0.3.3

["Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak gnome org>]

We are pleased to announce the second public release of Boxes.

Changes since 3.3.2:

- Instead of manually writing the libvirt's XML strings, we now make use of
  libvirt-gconfig to deal with the XML for us.
- Protect user from accidental deletion of boxes by providing an 'undo' button
  until after 6 seconds of deletion.
- Rely on libvirt for automatic assignment of unique SPICE port for new VMs.
- Don't destroy boxes on reboot.
- Also entertain medias of i686 architecture.
- Define a log domain for easier filtering of console log.
- Adapt to libosinfo 0.0.3 API for better OS media detection.
- Make the VM thumbnail in the properties view insensitive.
- Box creation wizard:
  - Make wizard topbar a real toolbar. This way, the window can be moved, and it
    can be styled correctly.
  - Only return from wizard to collection view if box creation succeeds.
  - Skip directly to 'Preparation' step when URI is passed through commandline
    argument.
  - Bump default storage allocation to 20 GiB.
    - This should be adequate storage for most OSs out there.
    - We use the dynamically growing storage format (qcow2) so actual
      amount of disk space used is completely dependent on the OS.
  - Special handling of live and unknown OS media:
    - Create initially transient box and only make it permanent if media
      installs anything on the storage.
    - Skip 'Setup' and 'Review' pages.
  - Only boot new VMs from hard drive after something is actually installed on
    the storage.
  - Accept path for URI as well.
  - More details at summary page on VM creation.
  - Express installation:
    - Actually update the settings after the first install of an OS.
    - UI to set admin and user password.
    - UI for specifying product key for Windows XP and 2003. Note that product
      keys are not required by recent Windows (Vista, 7  and 2008) installers.
    - Install QXL on Fedora guests to take full advantage of SPICE's efficiency.
    - Enable X/graphics for Fedora.
    - Add user to admin group for Fedora.
    - Automatically timezone and keyboard layout setup. This currently only
      works for Fedora.
    - Automatically language setup. Currently it only works for Windows 7,
      Windows 2008 and Fedora.
    - Fix user account setup for Windows 7 and 2008.
    - Fix some fundamental issues with Windows 2008. Now at least most of
      installation is automated.
    - Fix express installation floppy image and in turn express installation of
      Microsoft Windows XP.
- Added/updated translations
  - Polish
  - Swedish
- Various other functional and non-functional improvements and fixes.

Dependencies changed:

- libvirt-glib >= 0.0.3
- libvirt-gconfig >= 0.0.3
- spice-gtk >= 0.7.81
- libosinfo >=0.0.3

All bugs fixed in this release:

664214 - Installation from Live media is broken
664215 - Make the VM thumbnail in the properties view insensitive
664527 - Require latest gtk+ and libvirt-glib
664528 - gnome-boxes doesn't respond to mouse events
664561 - Unable to delete inactive libvirt boxes
664578 - Make wizard topbar a real toolbar
664594 - Use libvirt spice autoport
664600 - Also entertain medias of i686 arch
664603 - wizard: only return to collection view when creation succeed
664676 - qemu-kvm gets started with -no-reboot
664690 - wizard: Skip to 'Preparation' when URI is passed
664759 - default hdd image size too small
664766 - Correctly handle pure live media
664773 - Upgrade autotools config
665001 - Windows XP express installation is broken
665068 - Show more information in summary
665198 - Fix removal of libvirt machines
665254 - New way to handle live and unknown media
665290 - Express install settings ineffective after first install
665320 - Enable X/graphics for Fedora express installation
665333 - Install vdagent & QXL on Fedora guests
665336 - Only use 'vga' driver for win7
665444 - Update glib-2.0 VAPI and usage
665803 - Various express installation fixes/improvements
666019 - Improvements to Windows Server 2008 express install
666030 - UI for specifying product key for Windows XP & 2003
666032 - Use Gtk.Notebook for password input
666086 - Read & fill 1 line of unattended files at time
666315 - Start making use of libvirt-gconfig
666324 - Don't react to domain deletion event trigered by us
666334 - Be more friendly to user on deletion of boxes
664760 - Passing a file path (not uri) to installation media makes wizard behave
         oddly

All contributors to this release:

Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau redhat com>
Daniel Nylander <po danielnylander se>
Javier Jardón <jjardon gnome org>
Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr redhat com>
Marc-André Lureau <marcandre lureau gmail com>
Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl>
Piotr Drąg <piotrdrag gmail com>
Tom Goralczyk <maido in heaven gmail com>
Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <zeeshanak gnome org>

WARNING: The needed spice-gtk release tarball is *currently* not
available at the expected location but here:
http://elmarco.fedorapeople.org/spice-gtk-0.7.150-e507.tar.bz2

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What is Boxes?
============

A simple GNOME 3 application to access remote or virtual systems.

Goals
=====

* View, access, and use:
  * remote machines
  * remote virtual machines
  * local virtual machines
  * When technology permits, set up access for applications on local
virtual machines
* View, access, and use virtual machines on removable media
* View, access, and use shared connection / machines
* Share connections?
* Upload / publish virtual machines
* Select favorites
* Search for connections

Non-Goals
=========

* Enterprise system management / administration
* Asset management
* Software distribution
* Automation

Use Cases
=========

* Connect to a local virtual machine for testing.
* Connecting to a work machine from home.
* Connect to a work machine over a low quality cellular network.

Homage page
==========

https://live.gnome.org/Boxes

Downloads
========

http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-boxes

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124