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Virtualization

In this section, we cover discussion of Fedora virtualization technologies on the @fedora-virt list.

Contributing Writer: Dale Bewley

Fedora Virtualization List

This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-virt list.

Virt Status Report

Justin Forbes posted^[1] a Fedora virtualization status report. Justin pointed out F13 bugs^[2] now include Important and Pony classifications in addition to Blocker and Target.

↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-December/msg00056.html
↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_bugs

RHEL and Fedora Virtualization Feature Parity

Robert Day wondered how the virtualization features^[1] of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 compared to Fedora 12.

Daniel Berrange explained^[2] "The KVM based virtualization in RHEL-5.4 is not nearly so far behind Fedora as you might think. The libvirt mgmt stack in RHEL-5.4 was rebased to be near parity with 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."

↑ http://www.redhat.com/virtualization/rhev/
↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-December/msg00040.html

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 {{Anchor|Virtualization}}
 == Virtualization ==
-In this section, we cover discussion on the @et-mgmnt-tools-list, @fedora-xen-list, and @libvirt-list of Fedora virtualization              technologies.
+In this section, we cover discussion of Fedora virtualization technologies on the
+@fedora-virt list.
 Contributing Writer: [[User:Dale | Dale Bewley]]
-=== Enterprise Management Tools List ===
-This section contains the discussion happening on the
-[http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools et-mgmt-tools list]
-====  ====
-<references />
 === Fedora Virtualization List ===
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 [http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-virt fedora-virt list].
-==== Virtualization Test Day ====
+==== Virt Status Report ====
-[[MarkMcLoughlin|Mark McLoughlin]]
+[[JustinForbes|Justin Forbes]]
-announced<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-April/msg00287.html</ref> that
+posted<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-December/msg00056.html</ref> a Fedora virtualization status report.
-Fedora 11 "Test Day"<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Test_Days</ref> for virtualization is this week on Thursday May 7th. "On the day, you'll have the opportunity to work closely with other
+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.
-Fedora developers and contributors to make a real impact on the quality
-of Fedora's virtualization features."
-"The wiki page<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-05-07_Virtualization</ref> contains a first cut at listing test areas which we will
-cover on the day. Each test area will have a set of test cases. We plan
-to flesh out these test cases as part of the test day, but if people
-could dive in now and start writing some test cases, that would make a
-huge difference."
 <references />
-==== New Release libguestfs 1.0.15 ====
+==== RHEL and Fedora Virtualization Feature Parity ====
-[[RichardJones|Richard Jones]]
+Robert Day wondered how the virtualization features<ref>http://www.redhat.com/virtualization/rhev/</ref> of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4
-announced<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-April/msg00259.html</ref>
+compared to Fedora 12.
-"version 1.0.15 of {{package|libguestfs}}, the library for
-accessing and modifying virtual machine filesystems."
-'''New Features:'''
-* New <code>virt-inspector</code><ref>http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/virt-inspector.1.html</ref> tool.
-: This can tell you at a high level what is on a virtual machine, such as how its filesystems are mounted, what OS and version it is running, what kernel, drivers and apps are installed.
-* New 'lvremove', 'vgremove', 'pvremove' commands.
-* Add really working support for NTFS and FAT.
-* Add really working support for CD-ROMs and DVDs.
-* Add <code>--ro</code> option for read-only mounts in guestfish.
-* New 'set-e2uuid', 'get-e2uuid', 'set-e2label', 'get-e2label' commands for setting ext2/3/4 UUIDs and labels.
-* New 'debug' command for debugging daemon internals.
-* Guestfish recipes.
-* Many bugs fixed (note: including a data corruptor that affected FileOut transfers, so upgrading is recommended).
-Version 1.0.10 was announced just last week (FWN#173<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue173#New_Release_libguestfs_1.0.10</ref>). Also see Richard's many blog posts
+[[DanielBerrange|Daniel Berrange]]
-<ref>http://en.wordpress.com/tag/libguestfs/</ref> on <code>libguestfs</code>.
+explained<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-December/msg00040.html</ref>
+"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."
 <references />
-==== Install Grub Bootloader on Converted Virtual Images ====
-Dennis J. was
-"experimenting<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-April/msg00288.html</ref> with converting a physical system to a virtual one" and
-"was able to transfer the system to a volume group in an image file. My problem is that I don't know how to install grub on that image file."
-[[RichardJones|Richard Jones]]
-asked "Why not just copy across the whole block device?  This is essentially
-what <code>virt-p2v</code><ref>http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v/</ref> does, although <code>virt-p2v</code> is doing nothing more than automating what you could do by hand."
-Richard then quickly added a <code>grub-install</code> feature
-to <code>libguestfs</code><ref>http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/</ref>,
-and demonstrated<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-April/msg00294.html</ref>
-how to use it.
-Richard noted<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-April/msg00261.html</ref> the minimum target is Fedora 11.
-"There's no chance of <code>libguestfs</code> for Fedora 10, because the qemu
-maintainers aren't interested in pulling back vmchannel support into
-that old qemu 0.9 package in F-10."
+====  ====
 <references />
-=== Libvirt List ===
-This section contains the discussion happening on the
-[http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list libvir-list].
 ====  ====
 <references />

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