news 28 Posted June 6, 2012 We are pleased to announce a new (unstable) release of Boxes. Changes since 3.4.0: - All changes included in subsequent 3.4.x releases: http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-boxes/3.4/gnome-boxes-3.4.2.news - Rework media menu to look good and allow scrolling. - Indicate live medias and VMs as such. - Correctly report 'i686' architecture as 32-bit. - Avoid deadlock during startup. - Fix toolbar not showing up. - Always automatically launch wizard on startup when Boxes is empty, not just on the first run. - Update topbar title to help with ungrab. - Do not forward grab-broken events to box' display. - Allow to open a machine from command line. This allows calling "gnome-boxes xp" to start and open that VM for example. - Add a command line argument to open in full screen. - Always install a tablet device. - Do not skip review page for unknown or live media when creating VM manually from wizard. - Fix blurry notifications. - Fix escaping from fullscreen when caps/numlock are on. - Setup VM timers policies that fixes Windows 7 hangs. - Express installation: - Set hostname based on its box's name for Windows XP and Fedora. - Setup user account and autologon for Windows XP. - Setup user's avatar for Windows XP and Fedora. - Correctly setup admin password for Windows XP. - Use gtk+ password character in Summary page. - Added/updated translations: - Bulgarian - Catalan (Valencian) - French - Galician - German - Greek - Hebrew. - Norwegian bokmÃ¥l - Persian - Russian - Simplified Chinese (zh_CN) - Slovenian - Spanish - Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong and Taiwan) - Some other functional and non-functional improvements and fixes. Dependencies changed: - libvirt-glib >= 0.0.8 - libvirt-gconfig >= 0.0.8 - libosinfo >= 0.1.1 All bugs fixed in this release: 664239 - When going back from a fullscreened VM it should unfullscreen 665562 - Remove now redundant hack for windows 7 670306 - should do some kickstart sanity check before starting the installer 670777 - Better disk performance 672159 - gnome-boxes should remember the iso that was selected when going back from the 'configuration' screen 672160 - isos selected through boxes should appear in the "recently used" section in the file selector 672458 - The spice mouse is lagging (comparing to spicec) 672528 - "Cancel" button does not really cancel 672567 - Launching of new machines not working 672601 - wizard: Don't explode the window with lots of medias 672853 - Assistant layout is broken 672872 - Sane default sound & video devices for unknown OSs 672983 - error message notification should not go away when the error is fatal 673053 - error popups are not readable 673847 - express: Make use of 'distro' data from libosinfo 673856 - Missing ISO source should not be treated as a fatal error 674035 - gnome-boxes should set 'magic' clock parameters for kvm guests 674228 - Name logo files according to distro names 674328 - Cannot differentiate similar ISOs in list of ISOs 674352 - Getting statistics slow down VMs a lot 674361 - Top toolbar in display shouldn't prevent win7 drag window top to maximize 674647 - Make wizard file chooser dialog, modal 674657 - creation assistant isn't running after quitting app first time 674794 - in-app notifications are blurry 675615 - Mouse scrollwheel not working in local Windows XP guest 675617 - Mark the express install floppy image as optional 675663 - Don't do blocking calls on main threads when collecting stats 675813 - Translate X kbd layout ID to console layout ID 676176 - Add units to the -shadow css properties 676222 - no go back button when full screen in win XP 676307 - Cannot leave full screen before system bootup (not even with keyboard) 676320 - User is not created during unattended installation of WinXP 676588 - boxes shouldn't be suprised with non-boxes vm 676589 - Deal with Osinfo media == null 676590 - Always install a tablet 676591 - Do not forward grab-broken to display 676631 - Allow to open a machine from command line 676632 - Allow to open in full screen 676648 - Mark strings as translatable 676658 - Small improvements for Util::get_* functions 676676 - Do not skip review page for unknown media 676679 - Fix random deadlock/timeout 676834 - A few express installation fixes/improvements 677117 - wizard: go to setup step after prepare 677177 - Use gtk+ password character in Summary All contributors to this release: Alexander Larsson Alexander Shopov Alexandre Franke Arash Mousavi Bruno Brouard Carles Ferrando Cheng-Chia Tseng Christian Kirbach Christophe Fergeau Daniel Mustieles Fran Diéguez Kjartan Maraas Marc-André Lureau Matej UrbanÄÂiÄ Tom Tryfonidis tuhaihe Yaron Shahrabani Yuri Myasoedov Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) --------------------------------- 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/3.5/ _______________________________________________ Share this post Link to post
