User:Dale

Dale Bewley

I'm vegan and I mountain bike a lot.

Contact

• Email: dale AT bewley DOT net
• IRC: dbewley (not there often, sometimes #fedora-admin #fedora-docs)
• GPG key: 4F6056DE
• Fedora Account: dale
• Social Networks: Mugshot, Facebook
• Blog: http://tofu.org/drupal/blog/1
• Home: http://dale.bewley.net

Activities within Fedora

Wiki Work

• All my wiki contributions

FWN Virtualization Beat

• I have contributed to Fedora Weekly News in the Virtualization Beat since August '08.
• Past FWN Virtualization Beats:

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 Virtualization Beat

• I worked on the Virtualization release notes for F10 through F12.

Virtualization Quick Start

• I'd like to take a whack at the Virtualization Quick Start. When will I find the time?

Virtualization Release Notes

Previous Fedora Virtualization Release Notes:

F12, F11, F10, F9, F8

Release Notes Howto

• Docs/Beats/HowTo
• Docs/Beats#Fedora_Release_Notes_Beats

F13 Virtualization Release Notes

Features

• F13 Virt Features List

• Xen to KVM migration Provide nearly effortless automatic translation of Xen virtual machines to KVM virtual machines. - pending
• Shared Network Interface - pending f13
• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Hostinfo
• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VHostNet
• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtAuthorization
• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvopsDom0
• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtVNCResourceTunnel
• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KVM_Stable_PCI_Addresses
• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtAppliances

F12 Virtualization Release Notes

For the moment, I have copied the F11 Virtualization Release Notes for use in constructing the F12 notes.

Bugs

• Virtualization_bugs
• F12 Virt Target
• F12 Virt Blocker

Features

• F12 Virt Features List

• VirtioSerial Adds a virtio-serial device to guests running on top of qemu and kvm - accepted
• Hostinfo Allow a virtual machine to see information and statistics from the host operating system - pending
• VirtgPXE Replace the deprecated etherboot pxe booting infrastructure with the more modern and currently upstream supported gpxe. - accepted
• libguestfs Libguestfs is a library for accessing and modifying virtual machine disk images. guestfish is an interactive shell tool for editing virtual machine disk images. - accepted

Technically, this actually launched in F11, but not as a "Feature" http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f11/en-US/sect-Release_Notes-Virtualization.html

• SR-IOV Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) is a PCI feature which allows virtual functions (VF) to be created that share the resources of a physical function (PF). - accepted
• KVM Huge Page Backed Memory - Enable KVM guests to use huge page backed memory in order to reduce memory consumption and improve performance by reducing CPU cache pressure. - accepted
• KVM qcow2 Performance - Improve the I/O performance of virtual machines using disk images in the qcow2 image format. - accepted
• Network Interface Management - Provide tools to easily set up commonly used network configurations, like bridges, bonds, vlan's and sensible combinations thereof, in particular for virtualized hosts. - accepted
• KSM - Allow KVM guest virtual machines to share identical memory pages. This is especially useful when running multiple guests from the same or similar base operating system image. Because memory is shared, the combined memory usage of the guests is reduced. - accepted
• KVM NIC Hotplug - Allow the addition of a guest network interface (NIC) a guest virtual machine without needing to restart the guest. - accepted
• KVM Stable Guest ABI - Allow guest virtual machines to be presented with the same application binary interface across QEMU upgrades. - accepted
• Virt Privileges - Improve security by adjusting the privileges of QEMU processes managed by libvirt. Also, allow KVM to be used by unprivileged users. - accepted
• Virt Storage Management - Enable VM hosts to discover new SAN storage and issue NPIV operations. - accepted

Not exactly an accepted feature, but mentioned in rel notes.

• Libvirt Technology Compatibility Kit - Provide a functional test suite for virtualization and report on hypervisor compatability. - pending F13

Packages

Versions also see Virtualization_bugs (script to make table)

Virtualization Package Versions

Package	f11 Release	f11 Updates ()	f12 Release	f12 Updates ()	Rawhide ()	Rel Notes

F11 Virtualization Release Notes

For the moment, I have copied the F10 Virtualization Release Notes for use in construction the F11 notes.

Preliminary 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

Todo

• "One thing that's missing is a "new features and improvements" for KVM - both the kvm package, and the kvm support in the kernel."
• Go over changelogs of pkgs and pick out notable diffs from F10 release ver to F11 ver.
  • kvm
  • libvirt
  • python-virtinst
  • qemu
  • virt-df
  • virt-manager
  • virt-mem
  • virt-top
  • virt-viewer
  • xen
  • xenner
  • xenwatch

Bugs

• Virtualization_bugs
• F11 Virt Target
• F11 Virt Blocker

Features

• Virtualization VNC Authentication - accepted
• KVM PCI Device Assignment - accepted
• SVirt Mandatory Access Control - accepted
• Features/VirtImprovedConsole - accepted
• KVM_and_QEMU_merge - accepted

Packages

Versions also see Virtualization_bugs (script to make table)

Virtualization Package Versions

Package	f10 Release	f10 Updates (20090516)	f11 Release	f11 Updates (20090516)	Rawhide (20090516)	Rel Notes
kvm	74-5.fc10	74-10.fc10	n/a	n/a	n/a	http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/ChangeLog
libvirt	0.4.6-3.fc10	0.5.1-2.fc10	0.6.2-8.fc11	0.6.2-8.fc11	0.6.2-8.fc11	http://www.libvirt.org/news.html
libguestfs	n/a	n/a	n/a	1.0.21-3.fc11	n/a	http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/
python-virtinst	0.400.0-4.fc10	0.400.0-5.fc10	0.400.3-8.fc11	0.400.3-8.fc11	0.400.3-8.fc11	http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/ download.html
virt-df	2.1.4-2.fc10	2.1.5-1.fc10	2.1.5-1.fc11	2.1.5-1.fc11	2.1.5-1.fc11	http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/
virt-manager	0.6.0-3.fc10	0.6.0-5.fc10	0.7.0-4.fc11	0.7.0-4.fc11	0.7.0-4.fc11	http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/download.html
virt-mem	0.2.9-6.fc10	0.2.9-6.fc10	0.3.1-6.fc11	0.3.1-6.fc11	0.3.1-6.fc11	http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-mem/faq.html
virt-top	1.0.3-2.fc10	1.0.3-2.fc10	1.0.3-4.fc11	1.0.3-4.fc11	1.0.3-4.fc11	http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top/ChangeLog.txt
virt-viewer	0.0.3-3.fc10	0.0.3-3.fc10	0.0.3-4.fc11	0.0.3-4.fc11	0.0.3-4.fc11
qemu	0.9.1-10.fc10	0.9.1-12.fc10	0.10-16.fc11	0.10-16.fc11	0.10-16.fc11	http://www.nongnu.org/qemu/changelog.html
xen	3.3.0-1.fc10	3.3.0-1.fc10	3.3.1-11.fc11	3.3.1-11.fc11	3.3.1-11.fc11	http://www.xen.org/download/
xenner	0.46-3.fc10	0.46-3.fc10	0.46-6.fc11	0.46-6.fc11	0.46-6.fc11	http://cvs.bytesex.org/xenner.html
xenwatch	0.5.3-1.fc10	0.5.4-1.fc10	0.5.4-2.fc11	0.5.4-2.fc11	0.5.4-2.fc11	http://cvs.bytesex.org/xenwatch.html

F10 Virtualization Release Notes

Notes on Virtualization features for F10 used to create the F10 releases notes.

• Need to be done by Wed 2008-10-08 Schedule

Features

• Features/VirtStorage
• Features/VirtRemoteInstall
• Virtualization_Quick_Start
• F-10 pv_ops based kernel-xen tracker

Packages

Versions also see Virtualization_bugs

Virtualization Package Versions

Package	F9 Release	F9 Updates (20081110)	F10 Release	Upstream (20081110)	Rel Notes
kvm	65-1	65-10	74-5	78	http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/ChangeLog
libvirt	0.4.2-1	0.4.6-2	0.4.6-3	0.4.6	http://www.libvirt.org/news.html
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
virt-df	n/a	2.1.1-8	2.1.4-2	2.1.4	http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/
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
virt-mem	n/a	n/a	0.2.9-6	0.3.1	http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-mem/faq.html
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
virt-viewer	0.0.3-1	n/a	0.0.3-3	0.0.3	http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/download.html
xen	3.2.0-10	3.2.0-15	3.3.0-1	3.3.0	http://www.xen.org/download/
xenner	0.29-2	0.41-1	0.46-3	0.46	http://cvs.bytesex.org/xenner.html
xenwatch	n/a	0.5.3-1	0.5.3-1	0.5.3	http://cvs.bytesex.org/xenwatch.html

Misc Virt

Windows KVM Guest and Paravirt NIC Drivers

As seen in FWN#152. The virt-manager GUI doesn't have the knobs in the UI yet to enable virtio drivers. THe libvirt framework underneath does support it, so it can be done by hand. Here's how.

• Download the drivers to guest and extract on desktop.
• Shutdown the guest virsh shutdown winxp
• Dump the libvirt XML virsh dumpxml winxp > winxp-before.xml, and change the network settings. To the <interface> block add <model type='virtio'/> like this:

[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'/>

• Redefine the domain with the altered config: virsh define winxp-after.xml
• Start the guest virsh start winxp, 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