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== Contact ==
== Contact ==
* '''Email''': [[MailTo(dale AT bewley DOT net)] 
* '''Email''': dale AT bewley DOT net
* '''IRC''': dbewley (not there often, sometimes #fedora-admin #fedora-docs)
* '''IRC''': dbewley (not there often, sometimes #fedora-admin #fedora-docs)
* '''GPG key''': [http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x4F6056DE 4F6056DE]  
* '''GPG key''': [http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x4F6056DE 4F6056DE]  
* '''Fedora Account''': dale
* '''Fedora Account''': dale
* '''Social Networks''': [http://mugshot.org/person?who=gV9XfBY8QkTAkY Mugshot]
* '''Social Networks''': [http://mugshot.org/person?who=gV9XfBY8QkTAkY Mugshot], [http://www.facebook.com/dale.bewley Facebook]
* '''Blog''': http://tofu.org/drupal/blog/1
* '''Blog''': http://tofu.org/drupal/blog/1
* '''Home''': http://dale.bewley.net
* '''Home''': http://dale.bewley.net


== Activities within Fedora ==
== Activities within Fedora ==
For the past several months I've been pretty disconnected from Fedora unfortunately, with job and life changes. I plan to begin contributing regularly as time allows.


=== Wiki Work ===
I have worked on the Virtualization beat for Fedora Weekly News and the Release Notes.
* All my [[Special:Contributions/Dale | wiki contributions]]
* I have contributed to [[FWN | Fedora Weekly News]] in the [[FWN/Beats/Virtualization | Virtualization Beat]] since August '08.
* I worked on the [[Docs/Beats/Virtualization | Virtualization release notes]] since the [[Releases/10 | Fedora 10]] release.
* My [[Special:Contributions/Dale | wiki contributions]].


==== Virtualization Quick Start ====
= Fedora Weekly News: Virtualization Beat =
* I'd like to take a whack at the [[Virtualization Quick Start]]. When will I find the time?
'''FWN Howto:'''
* Workflow:
* Pondering [[User:Dale/Zikula_FWN_Testing | FWN on Zikula]]


==== Docs Virtualization Beat ====
'''Past FWN Virtualization Beats:'''
* I put together the F10 [[Docs/Beats/Virtualization | Virtualization release notes]].


==== FWN Virtualization Beat ====
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* I work on the [[FWN | Fedora Weekly News]] [[FWN/Beats/Virtualization | Virtualization Beat]] since August '08.
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== Notes To Self ==
= Docs Project: Virtualization Release Notes Beat =
'''Release Notes Howto'''


=== Virtualization Release Notes F11 ===
Preliminary [http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-11/f-11-docs-tasks.html Schedule]:
* Prepare Alpha Release Notes (1 page)  Mon 2009-02-02 Tue 2009-02-03
* Post Final Alpha Release Notes Tue 2009-02-03 Tue 2009-02-03
* Prepare Beta Release Notes (1 page)  Mon 2009-03-23  Mon 2009-03-23
* Post Beta Release Notes One-Page  Mon 2009-03-23  Mon 2009-03-23
==== Bugs ====
* [[Virtualization_bugs]]
* [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=F11VirtTarget&hide_resolved=1 F11 Virt Target]
* [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=F11VirtBlocker&hide_resolved=1 F11 Virt Blocker]
==== Features ====
* [[Features/VirtVNCAuth|Virtualization VNC Authentication]]
* [[Features/KVM_PCI_Device_Assignment|KVM_PCI_Device_Assignment]]
* [[Features/KVM_and_QEMU_merge|KVM_and_QEMU_merge]]
* [[Features/SVirt_Mandatory_Access_Control|SVirt Mandatory Access Control]]
=== Virtualization Release Notes F10 ===
I'm gathering links to become oriented with the Fedora Docs Project and Virtualization features for F10.
==== Howto ====
* [[Docs/Beats/HowTo]]
* [[Docs/Beats/HowTo]]
* [[Docs/Beats#Fedora_Release_Notes_Beats]]
* [[Docs/Beats#Fedora_Release_Notes_Beats]]
* Need to be done by Wed 2008-10-08 [http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-10/f-10-docs-tasks.html| Schedule]
==== Content ====
* [[Docs/Beats/Virtualization | F10 Notes]] and [http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9/en_US/sn-Virtualization.html F9 Notes] and [http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f8/en_US/sn-Virtualization.html F8 Notes]
* [[Features/VirtStorage]]
* [[Features/VirtRemoteInstall]]
* [[Virtualization_Quick_Start]]
* http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/ Richard Jones does cool stuff with <code>virt-*</code>.
* [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=F10_XenPvOps F-10 pv_ops based kernel-xen tracker]
'''Versions''' also see [[Virtualization_bugs]]
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|+ Virtualization Package Versions
|-
! Package      !! F9 Release !! F9 Updates (20081110) !! F10 Release !! Upstream (20081110) !! Rel Notes
|-
| {{package|kvm}}          || 65-1      || 65-10    || 74-5      || 78      || http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/ChangeLog
|-
| {{package|libvirt}}      || 0.4.2-1    || 0.4.6-2  || 0.4.6-3    || 0.4.6  || http://www.libvirt.org/news.html
|-
| {{package|python-virtinst}}||0.300.3-5 || 0.300.3-7 || 0.400.0-4  || 0.400.0 || http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/download.html
|-
| {{package|virt-df}}      || n/a        || 2.1.1-8  || 2.1.4-2    || 2.1.4  || http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/
|-
| {{package|virt-manager}} || 0.5.4-3    || 0.5.4-4  || 0.6.0-3    || 0.6.0  || http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/download.html
|-
| {{package|virt-mem}}    || n/a        || n/a      || 0.2.9-6    || 0.3.1  || http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-mem/faq.html
|-
| {{package|virt-top}}    || 0.4.1.1-1  || 1.0.1-4  || 1.0.3-2    || 1.0.3  || http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top/ChangeLog.txt
|-
| {{package|virt-viewer}}  || 0.0.3-1    || n/a      || 0.0.3-3    || 0.0.3  || http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/download.html
|-
| {{package|xen}}          || 3.2.0-10  || 3.2.0-15  || 3.3.0-1    || 3.3.0  || http://www.xen.org/download/
|-
| {{package|xenner}}      || 0.29-2    || 0.41-1    || 0.46-3    || 0.46    || http://cvs.bytesex.org/xenner.html
|-
| {{package|xenwatch}}    || n/a        || 0.5.3-1  || 0.5.3-1    || 0.5.3  || http://cvs.bytesex.org/xenwatch.html
|}


* Quick hack to gather info for table above
'''Release Notes Scratchpad Pages'''
<pre>
#!/bin/bash
grep -v '^#' pkgs.in | while read line; do
    grep -v '^#' dist.in | while read dist; do
            pkg=`echo $line | awk '{print $1}'`
            notes=`echo $line | awk '{print $2}'`
            ver=`koji latest-pkg "$dist" "$pkg" | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}'`
            echo "$pkg, $dist, $ver, $notes"
    done
done
</pre>


=== Post 10 Release Quirks ===
For each release I begin by gathering all the info on features and updates I can, and place it on the following pages before moving it to the public [[Docs/Beats/Virtualization | release notes beat]] page.
==== Installing F10 DomU on F8 Dom0 ====
On a F8 dom0. Installing F9 domU pulls kernel from releases/9/Fedora/x86_64/os/images/xen/vmlinuz this does not exist on F10 and thus creation fails. The version of {{package|python-virtinst}} on F8 does not know the kernel path changed. Try this test version and give it some positive karma if it works for you.
* http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=71125
* https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458164


=== Windows KVM Guest and Paravirt NIC Drivers ===
[[User:Dale/Virtualization_Release_Notes_Scratchpad/15 | F15]],
As seen in [[FWN/Issue152#Using_VirtIO_Network_Driver_for_Windows_KVM_Guest|
[[User:Dale/Virtualization_Release_Notes_Scratchpad/14 | F14]],
FWN#152]]. The {{package|virt-manager}} GUI doesn't have the knobs in the UI yet to
[[User:Dale/Virtualization_Release_Notes_Scratchpad/13 | F13]],
enable [http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Virtio virtio] drivers. THe {{package|libvirt}} framework underneath does support it, so it can be done by hand. Here's how.
[[User:Dale/Virtualization_Release_Notes_Scratchpad/12 | F12]],
[[User:Dale/Virtualization_Release_Notes_Scratchpad/11 | F11]],
[[User:Dale/Virtualization_Release_Notes_Scratchpad/10 | F10]]


* [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=180599 Download] the drivers to guest and extract on desktop.
'''Previous Fedora Virtualization Release Notes:'''
* Shutdown the guest <code>virsh shutdown winxp</code>
* Dump the libvirt XML <code>virsh dumpxml winxp > winxp-before.xml</code>, and change the network settings. To the <code><interface></code> block add <code><model type='virtio'/></code> like this:
<pre>
[root@seitan virt]# diff -u winxp-before.xml winxp-after.xml
--- winxp-before.xml 2008-12-01 17:37:39.000000000 -0800
+++ winxp-after.xml 2008-12-01 17:39:21.000000000 -0800
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
      <readonly/>
    </disk>
    <interface type='network'>
+      <model type='virtio'/>
      <mac address='54:52:00:03:09:01'/>
      <source network='default'/>
      <target dev='vnet0'/>
</pre>
* Redefine the domain with the altered config: <code>virsh define winxp-after.xml</code>
* Start the guest <code>virsh start winxp</code>, and install the drivers within Windows when the new hardware detection wizard pops up.


See also: http://www.linux-kvm.com/content/tip-how-setup-windows-guest-paravirtual-network-drivers
[[Docs/Beats/Virtualization | F14]],
[http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Release_Notes/sect-Release_Notes-Virtualization.html F13],
[http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f12/en-US/html/sect-Release_Notes-Virtualization.html F12],
[http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f11/en-US/sect-Release_Notes-Virtualization.html F11],
[http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f10/en_US/What_Do_System_Adminstrators_Care_About.html#sn-Virtualization F10],
[http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9/en_US/sn-Virtualization.html F9],
[http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f8/en_US/sn-Virtualization.html F8]


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= Virtualization Quick Start =
[[Category:Homepage]]
* I'd like to take a whack at the [[Virtualization Quick Start]]. When will I find the time? Hasn't happened yet.

Latest revision as of 17:48, 8 March 2011

Dale Bewley

I'm vegan and I mountain bike a lot.

Contact

Activities within Fedora

For the past several months I've been pretty disconnected from Fedora unfortunately, with job and life changes. I plan to begin contributing regularly as time allows.

I have worked on the Virtualization beat for Fedora Weekly News and the Release Notes.

Fedora Weekly News: Virtualization Beat

FWN Howto:

Past FWN Virtualization Beats:

205, 204, 203, 202, 201, 200, 199, 198, 197, 196, 195, 194, 193, 192, 191, 190, 189, 188, 187, 186, 185, 184, 183, 182, 181, 180, 179, 178, 177, 176, 175, 174, 173, 172 171, 170, 169, 168, 167, 166, 165, 164, 163 162, 161, 160, 159, 158, 157, 156, 155, 154, 153, 152, 151, 150, 149, 148, 147, 146, 145, 144, 143, 142, 141, 140, 139, 138, 137

Docs Project: Virtualization Release Notes Beat

Release Notes Howto

Release Notes Scratchpad Pages

For each release I begin by gathering all the info on features and updates I can, and place it on the following pages before moving it to the public release notes beat page.

F15, F14, F13, F12, F11, F10

Previous Fedora Virtualization Release Notes:

F14, F13, F12, F11, F10, F9, F8

Virtualization Quick Start

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