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Revision as of 17:54, 17 May 2009
Virtualization
In this section, we cover discussion of Fedora virtualization technologies on the @et-mgmnt-tools-list, @fedora-xen-list, @libvirt-list and @ovirt-devel-list lists.
Contributing Writer: Dale Bewley
Enterprise Management Tools List
This section contains the discussion happening on the et-mgmt-tools list
Fedora Virtualization List
This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-virt list.
Libvirt List
This section contains the discussion happening on the libvir-list.
Status and Plans for Next Release
Daniel Veillard recapped[1] the release plans. A "feature freeze on the 22nd" and a "target for next release is Friday 29th".
Work will continue on
"reviewing and adding OpenNebula[2]/Power[3] drivers and try to get the
NPIV[4], netcf
[5] and secure migration patches in. It's likely not
everything will make the release cut but we can try !"
"So far we have mostly a lot of bug fixes and VirtualBox[6] driver updates commited since 0.6.3."
Support for Multi-headed Guests
Patches from Pritesh Kothari adding support for multiple graphics devices have been committed[1]
Virtual Box Support Increases
Pritesh Kothari contributed patches improving the VirtualBox[1] driver submitted[2] just last month.
PCI Passthrough Support
Aaron Clausen had[1] trouble using PCI passthrough[2].
Daniel Berrange
noted[3]
"there aren't any docs on the [libvirt
] website yet, but
Mark McLoughlin
just wrote up some notes[4]
for the Fedora 11 virt test" day.
Daniel also noted "you need a machine supporting VT-D[5]" (or IOMMU[6] in general) "for this work - the vast majority of hosts with fullvirt support do *not* yet support VT-D passthrough, but perhaps you're lucky ..."
- ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-May/msg00122.html
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KVM_PCI_Device_Assignment
- ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-May/msg00126.html
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-05-07_Virtualization_KVM_PCI_Device_Assignment
- ↑ http://www.intel.com/technology/itj/2006/v10i3/2-io/1-abstract.htm
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOMMU
Converting Between Domain XML and Native Configurations
Daniel Berrange
updated[1]
patches for an idea posted in April. Daniel added a public API for converting
back and forth between the native hypervisor configurations and
XML representations[2].
libvirt
Daniel's changes enable
Xen guest conversion "to/from both XM config format (/etc/xen
files), and the SEXPR format used by XenD".
"For QEMU, it implemnets export of domain XML into the
QEMU argv format" and conversion from QEMU argv into domain XML.
"With this available, it
makes it very easy for people using QEMU to switch over to using libvirt
for
management."