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| == Virtualization == | | == Virtualization == |
| In this section, we cover discussion on the @et-mgmnt-tools-list, @fedora-xen-list, @libvirt-list and @ovirt-devel-list of Fedora virtualization technologies. | | In this section, we cover discussion of Fedora virtualization technologies on the |
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| Contributing Writer: [[User:Dale | Dale Bewley]] | | Contributing Writer: [[User:Dale | Dale Bewley]] |
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| === Enterprise Management Tools List ===
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| This section contains the discussion happening on the
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| [http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools et-mgmt-tools list]
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| ==== Virt-manager and QEmu Disk Polling Logs ====
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| Radek Hladik
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| noticed<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/et-mgmt-tools/2009-February/msg00019.html</ref>
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| "when {{package|virt-manager}} is running and polling VMs stats {{package|libvirt}} log in <code>/var/log/libivrt/qemu/vmname</code> is filling with messages" on the number of disk operations. After a day the log had grown to 100MB.
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| Daniel P. Berrange accepted<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/et-mgmt-tools/2009-February/msg00021.html</ref> on behalf of <code>libvirt</code>
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| and Cole Robinson
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| described<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/et-mgmt-tools/2009-February/msg00020.html</ref>
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| how to turn of disk polling in <code>virt-manager</code>.
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| ==== virt-viewer Persistance Through Guest Reboots ====
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| Daniel P. Berrange
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| said<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/et-mgmt-tools/2009-February/msg00004.html</ref> that by Fedora 11 {{package|virt-viewer}} will persist and wait for a guest to resume rather than exit when a guest reboots.
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| ==== virt-install Wait Indefinitely for Windows Guests ====
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| Since Windows reboots during installation, John Levon patched<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/et-mgmt-tools/2009-February/msg00005.html</ref> <code>virt-install</code> to wait 120 minutes while installing a Windows guest. After some discussion it was decided it should wait indefinitely instead.
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| === Fedora Virtualization List === | | === Fedora Virtualization List === |
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| [http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-virt fedora-virt list]. | | [http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-virt fedora-virt list]. |
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| ==== Fedora Virt Status Update ==== | | ==== Virt Status Report ==== |
| Mark McLoughlin composed<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-February/msg00061.html</ref> another informative weekly update on the status of virtualization development in Fedora. Some highlights included:
| | [[JustinForbes|Justin Forbes]] |
| | posted<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-December/msg00056.html</ref> a Fedora virtualization status report. |
| | Justin pointed out F13 bugs<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_bugs</ref> now include Important and Pony classifications in addition to Blocker and Target. |
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| * A <code>pvmmu</code> problem casues some guest installs on an F11 Alpha host to <code>oops</code> during heavy network activity ({{bz|480822}})
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| * Work has begun on Fedora 11 virtualization [[Documentation_Virtualization_Beat|release notes]].
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| * The 0.6.0 release of {{package|libvirt}} was not completely without problems.
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| * All Fedora 11 virtualization features can be found [[:Category:F11_Virt_Features|all together]].
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| * The <code>KVM</code>/<code>QEmu</code> merge project has settled on a naming scheme.
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| * <code>KVM</code> PCI device assignment continues to have issues. The "core of the problem is that devices must be reset before being assigned if they have been previously used in the host."
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| * The addition of <code>bzImage</code> loading support to the <code>Xen</code> hypervisor is enabling users to build test Dom0 kernels.
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| * A detailed of accounting reveals the bug count going from 191 to 192.
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| <references /> | | ==== RHEL and Fedora Virtualization Feature Parity ==== |
| | Robert Day wondered how the virtualization features<ref>http://www.redhat.com/virtualization/rhev/</ref> of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 |
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| ==== Merging KVM and QEmu Packages ====
| | [[DanielBerrange|Daniel Berrange]] |
| A feature<ref>[[Features/KVM_and_QEMU_merge]]</ref> in the works for Fedora 11 is a merge of the {{package|kvm}} package with the {{package|qemu}} package. Glauber Costa recently took the first step in this process by creating a test
| | explained<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-December/msg00040.html</ref> |
| build<ref>http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1105051</ref> and starting a very long thread<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-February/msg00000.html</ref> on naming of all the subpackages which will soon make up <code>QEmu</code>.
| | "The KVM based virtualization in RHEL-5.4 is not nearly so far behind |
| | Fedora as you might think. The {{package|libvirt}} mgmt stack in RHEL-5.4 was |
| | rebased to be near parity with [[Releases/11|Fedora 11]], and KVM in RHEL-5.4 is |
| | also pretty close to that using what's best described as a hybrid of |
| | kvm-83 and kvm-84." |
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| === Fedora Xen List ===
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| This section contains the discussion happening on the
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| [http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen fedora-xen list].
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| ==== bzImage Dom0 Support in Rawhide Xen ====
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| Pasi Kärkkäinen
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| announced<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2009-February/msg00001.html</ref>
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| the lastest {{package|xen}} builds in [[Releases/Rawhide|Rawhide]] support
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| <code>bzImage</code> compressed dom0 kernels. Xen previously only supported
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| <code>zImage</code> compressed kernels. This development was one of the preqequisite
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| work items for the [[Features/XenPvopsDom0|Xen pvops Dom0]] feature.
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| This good news was tempered by the fact that there is still no dom0 capable
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| {{package|kernel}} in Rawhide. However, such a <code>kernel</code> can be
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| built<ref>http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps</ref> for testing.
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| Gerd Hoffmann
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| reports<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-February/msg00027.html</ref>
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| success doing just that. Such kernels are not yet stable enough for
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| use<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-February/msg00055.html</ref>.
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| ==== Test Dom0 Xen Kernel RPM Available ==== | | ==== ==== |
| M A Young
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| built<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2009-February/msg00014.html</ref>
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| a dom0 capable <code>kernel</code> RPM. It's suitable only for testing; "use it very much at your own risk".
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| === Libvirt List ===
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| This section contains the discussion happening on the
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| [http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list libvir-list].
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| === oVirt Devel List ===
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| This section contains the discussion happening on the
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| [http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ovirt-devel ovirt-devel list].
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