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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-p2v and RAID Controller Drivers ====
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| Based on Fedora 10, "<code>virt-p2v</code> is an experimental live CD for migrating physical machines to virtual machine guests." <ref>http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v/</ref>
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| Jonathan Pregler<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/et-mgmt-tools/2009-March/msg00075.html</ref>
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| Nick Haunold asked about a lack of HP and Dell RAID drivers in <code>virt-p2v</code>. No answer was found, but
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| Jonathan Pregler is now working<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/et-mgmt-tools/2009-March/msg00085.html</ref> on creating a SUSE live CD with <code>virt-p2v</code> and the RAID drivers embedded.
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| ==== NetWare Support added to virtinst ====
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| [[JohnLevon|John Levon]]
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| patched<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/et-mgmt-tools/2009-March/msg00065.html</ref>
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| {{package|python-virtinst}} to support NetWare PV installs.
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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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| ==== ==== | | ==== Virt Status Report ==== |
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| | [[JustinForbes|Justin Forbes]] |
| | | posted<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-December/msg00056.html</ref> a Fedora virtualization status report. |
| === Fedora Xen List ===
| | 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. |
| 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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| ==== Which Xen Configuration Files ====
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| Urs Golla was
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| confused<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2009-March/msg00043.html</ref> "about the configuration files for XEN user domains in Fedora."
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| [[DanielBerrange|Daniel P. Berrange]]<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2009-March/msg00054.html</ref> | |
| explained that parts of Xen uses different configuration formats.
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| * <code>xend</code> stores master config files in SXPR<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-expression</ref> format in <code>/var/lib/xend</code>.
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| * <code>xm</code> stores python-like config files in <code>/etc/xen</code>
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| "XenD itself has
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| no knowledge of these files," (in <code>/etc/xen</code>) "so it can't manage them. They should not
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| be used in Xen >= 3.0.4 If you have existing files in <code>/etc/xen</code>, then you
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| can load them into XenD by doing '<code>xm new configname</code>', at which point
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| both Xend and <code>libvirt</code> will be able to manage them. For Xen < 3.0.4
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| <code>libvirt</code> has some limited support for reading /etc/xen files directly"
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| Using {{package|libvirt}} and the <code>virsh</code> command, the above
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| configuration files are essentially obviated. Instead
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| an intermediate XML configuration<ref>http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html</ref>
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| can be modified and applied back to <code>xend</code>.
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| === Libvirt List === | | ==== RHEL and Fedora Virtualization Feature Parity ==== |
| This section contains the discussion happening on the
| | Robert Day wondered how the virtualization features<ref>http://www.redhat.com/virtualization/rhev/</ref> of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 |
| [http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list libvir-list].
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| ==== Xen PCI Device Passthrough ====
| | [[DanielBerrange|Daniel Berrange]] |
| A patch<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-March/msg00270.html</ref> from
| | explained<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-December/msg00040.html</ref> |
| [[DanielBerrange| Daniel P. Berrange]]
| | "The KVM based virtualization in RHEL-5.4 is not nearly so far behind |
| "provides initial support for PCI device passthrough in | | Fedora as you might think. The {{package|libvirt}} mgmt stack in RHEL-5.4 was |
| Xen, at time of boot. It does not (yet) implement device hotplug
| | rebased to be near parity with [[Releases/11|Fedora 11]], and KVM in RHEL-5.4 is |
| for PCI".
| | also pretty close to that using what's best described as a hybrid of |
| "XenD only supports 'unmanaged' PCI devices - ie mgmt app is responsible
| | kvm-83 and kvm-84." |
| for detaching/reattaching PCI devices from/to host device drivers.
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| XenD itself won't automatically do this".
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| ==== Secure Guest Migration Draft Patch ====
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| [[ChrisLalancette|Chris Lalancette]]
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| followed<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-March/msg00276.html</ref>
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| the RFC<ref>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue166#Secure_Guest_Migration_Between_Hosts</ref>
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| of last week with a "rough first draft of the secure migration code" and sought comments on the approach before putting the final polish on it.
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| [[DanielVeillard|Daniel Veillard]]
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| wasn't enitrely satisfied<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-March/msg00338.html</ref>
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| with the "costs related to the 64KB chunking imposed by the XML-RPC" and was
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| "Trying to reopen a bit the discussion we had before on opening a
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| separate encrypted connection".
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| Daniel Veillard
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| "would like to make sure we have room in the initial phase
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| to add such a negociation where an optimal solution" on a dedicated TCP/IP
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| connection "may be attempted, possibly falling back to a normal XML-RPC solution".
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| [[DanielBerrange|Daniel P. Berrange]]
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| pointed<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-March/msg00341.html</ref> out
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| "This isn't XML-RPC. This is our own binary protocol using XDR encoding,
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| which has very little metadata overhead - just a single 24 byte header
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| per 64kb of data.", and poposed a 'MIGRATION_INCOMING' message which could
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| cause <code>libvirted</code> to "switch the TCP channel to 'data stream' mode."
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| [[ChrisLalancette|Chris Lalancette]]
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| tested the migration code and found the draft secure migration caused a
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| "slowdown of between 1.5 and 3 times".
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| "What I'm going to do early next week is do some additional work to try to get
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| DanB's suggestion of the STREAM_DATA RPC working. Then I'll try benchmarking
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| (both for duration, and CPU usage)".
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| ==== More Flexible x86 Emulator Choice ==== | | ==== ==== |
| [[DanielBerrange|Daniel P. Berrange]]
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| explained<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-March/msg00281.html</ref>
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| the current {{package|libvirt}} restricts
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| "what emulator binary we allow for QEMU guests on x86 arches".
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| "This patch makes QEMU driver more flexible" ... "when setting up
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| its capabilities information."
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| "This should finally remove the confusion where a user in {{package|virt-manager}}
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| selectrs 'i686' and then wonders why we've disallowed choice of 'kvm'.
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| It also fixes 'virsh version' when only qemu-kvm is installed."
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| The path to each emulator binary is hardcoded in <code>libvirt</code>.
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| [[DanielVeillard|Daniel Veillard]]
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| found<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-March/msg00339.html</ref> this approach "worrying".
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| The merge<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KVM_and_QEMU_merge</ref>
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| of {{package|qemu}} and {{package|kvm}}
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| will make the reliance on a pathname to determine a binary's capabilities even less tenable.
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| [[DanielBerrange|Daniel P. Berrange]]
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| agreed
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| <ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-March/msg00345.html</ref>
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| "this approach we're currently using has pretty much reached
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| the end of its practicality. In particular it is impossible to solve
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| the problem of figuring out whether a plain 'qemu' binary supports
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| kvm natively. To adress that, we'd actually need to run the binary
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| and probe its output. This would require pretty much re-writing this
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| entire capabilities setup logic from scratch. Similarly coping with
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| varying path locations is another problem we can't easily solve with
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| this current code."
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