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| == Virtualization == | | == Virtualization == |
| In this section, we cover discussion of Fedora virtualization technologies on the | | In this section, we cover discussion of Fedora virtualization technologies on the |
| @fedora-virt, @fedora-xen-list, @libguestfs, @libvirt-list, | | @fedora-virt list. |
| @virt-tools-list, and @ovirt-devel-list lists.
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| Contributing Writer: [[User:Dale | Dale Bewley]] | | Contributing Writer: [[User:Dale | Dale Bewley]] |
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| === Interviews ===
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| [[MelChua|Mel Chua]]
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| recently interviewed<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_improvements_in_Fedora_12</ref> Fedora virtualization luminaries
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| [[RichardJones|Richard Jones]], [[DavidLutterkort|David Lutterkort]], and [[MarkMcLoughlin|Mark McLoughlin]]. Topics included:
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| * Richard Jones on guestfish and friends (libguestds and libvirt)
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| * Mark McLoughlin on virtual upgrades to your virtual machine
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| * David Lutterkort on "Network scripts: complex no more!"
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| * How to try out virtualization
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| * From etherboot to gPXE
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| * qcow2: now with better performance!
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| * Virtualization in Fedora: a historical retrospective
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| * What's Next? Virtualization in F13 and beyond
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| * When they're not hacking...
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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 Virtualization Status Report ==== | | ==== Virt Status Report ==== |
| The latest virt status
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| report<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-November/msg00045.html</ref>
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| from [[MarkMcLoughlin|Mark McLoughlin]] details the status of the latest
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| virtualization related bugs, and relayes behind the scenes drama of
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| "a couple of fire-drills with last-minute serious blocker bugs" as Fedora 12
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| was about to go out the door.
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| ==== Rawvirt Rawhide Virtualization for Fedora 12 ====
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| [[JustinForbes|Justin Forbes]] | | [[JustinForbes|Justin Forbes]] |
| announced<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-November/msg00041.html</ref>
| | posted<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-December/msg00056.html</ref> a Fedora virtualization status report. |
| "As was done for Fedora 11 users, the tradition continues, only the
| | 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. |
| locations have changed.
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| We've set up a repository for people running Fedora 12 who would like
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| to test the rawhide/F13 virt packages. To use it, do e.g."
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| <pre>
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| $> cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-virt-preview.repo << EOF
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| [rawvirt]
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| name=Virtualization Rawhide for Fedora 12
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| baseurl=http://jforbes.fedorapeople.org/virt-preview/f12/$basearch/
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| enabled=1
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| gpgcheck=0
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| EOF
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| $> yum update
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| </pre>
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| The Virtualization Preview Repository<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_Preview_Repository</ref>
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| is for people who would like to test the very latest virtualization related packages. This repository is intended primarily as an aid to testing / early experimentation. It is not intended for 'production' deployment.
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| <references /> | | <references /> |
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| | ==== 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 |
| | compared to Fedora 12. |
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| | [[DanielBerrange|Daniel Berrange]] |
| | 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." |
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| === Virtualization Tools List ===
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| This section contains the discussion happening on the
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| [http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list virt-tools-list list].
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| ==== ====
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| <references /> | | <references /> |
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| === Libguestfs List ===
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| This section contains the discussion happening on the
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| [http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs libguestfs list].
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| ==== ==== | | ==== ==== |
| <references /> | | <references /> |
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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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| ==== New Release libvirt 0.7.4 ====
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| [[DanielVeillard|Daniel Veillard]]
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| announced<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-November/msg00674.html</ref>
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| a new {{package|libvirt}} release, version 0.7.4.
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| "The rate of changes doesn't seems to slow down, though this release is
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| more about incremental improvements, bug fixes and cleanups than major
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| new features"
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| '''New features:'''
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| * Implement a node device backend using libudev (David Allan)<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue200#Node_device_enumeration_with_udev</ref>
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| * New APIs for checking some object properties (Daniel P. Berrange)
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| * Fully asynchronous monitor I/O processing (Daniel P. Berrange)
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| * add MAC address based port filtering to qemu (Gerhard Stenzel)
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| * Support for IPv6 / multiple addresses per interfaces (Laine Stump)
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| '''Improvements:'''
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| * Enable udev instead of hal on F12 / RHEL-6 or later (Daniel P. Berrange)
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| * python: Actually implement list*Interfaces bindings (Cole Robinson)
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| * esx: Handle 'vmxnet3' in esxVMX_FormatEthernet() (Matthias Bolte)
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| * Add translation of PCI vendor and product IDs (David Allan)
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| * Add scsi_target device type (David Allan)
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| * Add several fields to node device capabilities (David Allan)
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| * Add virConnectGetLibvirtVersion API (Cole Robinson)
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| * Implement finer grained migration control for Xen (Maximilian Wilhelm)
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| * Support for SATA Disks in virDomainDiskBus (pritesh)
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| * LXC implement missing DomainInterfaceStats API (Ryota Ozaki)
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| * Implmentation of new APIs to checking state/persistence of objects (Daniel P. Berrange)
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| * Allow timeouts waiting for QEMU job lock (Daniel P. Berrange)
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| * Release driver and domain lock when running monitor commands (Daniel P. Berrange)
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| * Locking of the qemuMonitorPtr object (Daniel P. Berrange)
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| * Wrap text mode monitor APIs, pass qemuMonitorPtr directly to APIs (Daniel P. Berrange)
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| * qemu: Allow cpu pinning for all logical CPUs, not just physical (Cole Robinson)
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| * qemu: Use same create/define overwrite logic for migration prepare. (Cole Robinson)
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| * qemu: Break out function to check if we can create/define/restore (Cole Robinson)
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| * Support for <channel> in domain and QEmu backend (Matthew Booth)
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| * LXC allow container to have ethN interfaces (Ryota Ozaki)
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| * New ebtables module wrapper (Gerhard Stenzel)
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| * Support reporting live interface IP/netmask (Laine Stump)
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| * Make startmode optional in toplevel interface definition (Laine Stump)
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| * Move libvirtd event loop into background thread (Daniel P. Berrange)
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| * More network utility functions (Matthew Booth)
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| * Set of new network related utilities (Daniel Veillard)
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| * qemu: migrate: Don't require manual URI to specify a port (Cole Robinson)
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| * storage: Add ParseSourceString function for use with FindPoolSources. (Cole Robinson)
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| * Add support for an external TFTP boot server (Paolo Bonzini)
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| * Support QEMU watchdog device. (Richard Jones)
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| * LXC implement missing macaddr assignment feature (Ryota Ozaki)
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| * schema: Update network schema. (Cole Robinson)
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| * Add ocfs2 to list of fs pool types (Jim Fehlig)
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| * Finer grained migration control (Chris Lalancette)
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| The above is abbreviated from the very long list in the release announcement.<ref>http://www.libvirt.org/news.html</ref>
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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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| ==== ==== | | ==== ==== |
| <references /> | | <references /> |
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