Test Day:2011-09-15 Virtualization

DATE	TIME	WHERE
Thursday September 15, 2011	From 12:00 to 21:00 UTC (8am -> 5pm EDT)	#fedora-test-day (webirc)

What to test?

Today's installment of Fedora Test Day will focus on Virtualization improvements in Fedora 16. There is a large list of virtualization improvements coming in Fedora. To simplify things, testing will be divided up into a number of sections.

If you come to this page after the test day is completed, your testing is still valuable, and you can use the information on this page to test and provide feedback.

Who's available

The following cast of characters will be available testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion ...

• Development - Justin Forbes
• Development / general help - Richard W.M. Jones (rwmjones on FreeNode)

What's needed to test

• A fully updated Fedora 16 Alpha machine. See instructions below.
• Hardware virtualization support (e.g. Intel VT or AMD-V) (see How_to_debug_Virtualization_problems#Is_My_Guest_Using_KVM.3F Is My Guest Using KVM?). If unavailable, you can still help with testing QEMU support.
• At least one guest image installed before the test day (suggested reading - Virtualization_Quick_Start)
• Up to 10-20Gb free disk space. Guest images take up a lot of space.
• See the individual test area pages for specific requirements.

How to test?

Update your machine

See the instructions on the Branched page on the various ways in which you can install or update to the Branched release. You should have at least the following packages installed.

• kernel-devel-3.1.0-0.rc6.git0.0.fc16
• libvirt-0.9.4-1.fc16
• python-virtinst-0.600.0-4.fc16
• qemu-0.15.0-4.fc16
• seabios-0.6.2-2.fc16
• virt-manager-0.9.0-5.fc16
• libguestfs-1.12.6-1.fc16
• libguestfs-tools-1.12.6-1.fc16
• python-libguestfs-1.12.6-1.fc16
• guestfs-browser-0.2.1-1.fc16.2
• virt-dmesg-0.3.0-1.fc16
• virt-top-1.0.6-1.fc16
• virt-what-1.11-1.fc16 (on the host and/or in guests)

Note: If you get grub vs grub2 conflicts when installing any packages, this is a known bug in grub2. Type the following command to get libguestfs packages which contain a workaround:

koji download-build libguestfs-1.12.6-2.fc16

Install Fedora 16

Testing requires the latest virtualization software included in Fedora Rawhide. Update your system to the latest rawhide using one of the following techniques.

• Download and install the beta test compose image
• Install from a nearby Fedora 16 mirror

Note: if you are using the Live CD image, you will need to mount storage for guests either from the local disk or from NFS. If the latter, you will need to run setsebool virt_use_nfs=on in order for it to work with SELinux.

Testing

When ready, select a category below and follow the instructions provided in each of the test cases:

General Virt

• QA:Testcase_Virtualization_Guest_pxeBoot
• QA:Testcase Live Migration using libvirt/virsh
• QA:Testcase Offline (paused) Migration using libvirt/virsh

Spice

• QA:Testcase Virtualization Check SPICE password support
• QA:Testcase Virtualization Manually set spice listening port with TLS port set
• QA:Testcase Virtualization Setting up a VM with Spice
• QA:Testcase Virtualization Spice listen on all public network interfaces

libvirt

• QA:Testcase Virtualization libvirt create a logical pool
• QA:Testcase Virtualization libvirt save and restore with svirt
• QA:Testcase Virtualization libvirt set guest memory

Hotplug

• QA:Testcase Virtualization Attach/Detach a SCSI device to guest
• QA:Testcase Virtualization Hotplug USB device to guest
• QA:Testcase_Virtualization_NIC_Hotplug_virsh_attach_detach

libguestfs, guestfish

Read more about this here: http://libguestfs.org

• libguestfs tests to try
• guestfs-browser tests to try

If you have python-libguestfs installed, then virt-manager should automatically gain extra features for displaying logos, apps, operating system etc from guests.

virt-dmesg

• virt-dmesg tests to try

virt-top

• virt-top tests to try

virt-what

• virt-what tests to try

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As Xen Guest (DomU)

• Xen DomU

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Report your Results

If you have problems with any of the tests, report a bug to Bugzilla. For instance file a bug report against the component virt-manager if you have problems testing the virt-manager. If you are unsure about exactly how to file the report or what other information to include, just ask on IRC and we will help you. Also, consult How_to_debug_Virtualization_problems for guidance resolving any issues.

Once you have completed the tests, add your results to the Results table below, following the example results from the first line as a template. The first column should be your name with a link to your User page in the Wiki if you have one, and the second should be a link to the Smolt profile of the system you tested. For each test case, use the result template to enter your result, as shown in the example result line.

Test Results

Each column should be a test case or configuration, and each row should consist of test results. Include a link where to report bugs. For example:

Please report all bugs into Bugzilla against the component listed in the individual test area.

Things that Work Well

User	Smolt Profile	Description	Status	References
Kashyap Chamarthy	HW	Regular installs via virt-manager ; 'virt-dmesg' tool
Eric Blake	HW	Love the improvements to virt-manager full-screen display - it worked well with VNC	pass
Eric Blake	HW	Spice password worked and gave me a working display (but I noticed you can't have spice and vnc graphics at the same time)	pass
Eric Blake	HW	libguestfs-test-tool reports TEST FINISHED OK	pass

Issues that Were Identified

User	Smolt Profile	Description	References
Kashyap Chamarthy	HW	Cannot install a guest via virt-install - This essentially blocks people from doing quick un-attended installs; Also libguestfs pkg installs fail due to grub2/grub conflict	Refer comment #2 RHBZ #677768
Eric Blake	HW	Installing libvirt leaks warnings due to spec file using F14 idioms that have newer systemd counterparts	RHBZ #738725
Eric Blake	HW	Cannot install libguestfs, because grub and grub2 cannot be simultaneously installed (see above workaround for a newer libguestfs that works around this)	RHBZ #737261
Eric Blake	HW	virt-manager displays non-editable fields as text boxes, and doesn't allow copy-paste on non-editable labels	RHBZ #738751
Eric Blake	HW	virt-manager doesn't know how to edit libvirt network objects, such as changing the default NAT network to 192.168.123.0/24	RHBZ #738758
Eric Blake	HW	dnsmasq binds all interfaces by default, which gets in the way of libvirt being able to provide NAT services to VMs	RHBZ #734903
Eric Blake	HW	virt-manager resize-to-vm swaps x and y dimensions	RHBZ #738806