The most recent release of virt-manager tagged 0.9.1-1 released at the end of January 2012 now includes support for usb 2.x.

The first release candidate of Proxmox VE 2.0 which adds high availability

Virtio-net paravirtual drivers provide you with better network performance than emulated drivers for your guests.

The first release of the RHEV-M upstream project, oVirt, is scheduled for the end of January in a few days time.

If you've ever struggled with converting a vmdk disk format to qemu's qcow format you might have better luck now.

Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE), the linux Debian based distribution for managing KVM and Openvz, just released it's 2.0 Beta version adding High Availability support and packages based on qem

qemu 1.0 was released today right on schedule.

The next release of upstream qemu is scheduled for December 1, 2011 and will be tagged as version 1.0.

The most interesting session on Day 1 of the oVirt relaunch was about getting the recently open sourced RHEV-M ( now known as oVirt ) up and running on your Desktop.

Thanks to Redhat developer Richard Jones for his blog post pointing out this information.