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Virtualization

In this section, we cover discussion of Fedora virtualization technologies on the @fedora-virt, @fedora-xen-list, and @libvirt-list lists.

Contributing Writer: Dale Bewley

Fedora Virtualization List

This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-virt list.

Bridges

Andrés García asked^[1]

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Fedora Xen List

This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-xen list.

No Xen dom0 in Fedora 12 Hopefully 13

Zhang Enming was disappointed^[1] to learn^[2] the pv_ops dom0 support^[3] for hosting Xen guests, dropped in Fedora 9, is still not present in Fedora 12. Zhang referenced numerous videos documenting success in creating "a fully working Xen pv-ops dom0 Fedora 11 host operating system."

While there are experimental patches which may be applied^[4] ^[5] to the kernel to enable support for dom0, they are not yet in the upstream kernel which forms the basis the Fedora kernel package.

It was decided^[6] two years ago this month that Fedora "simply cannot spend more time forward porting Xen kernels" and "the plan is to re-focus 100% of all Xen kernel efforts onto paravirt_ops." See FWN#137.^[7]

Pasi Kärkkäinen noted^[8] "pv_ops dom0 kernel has only recently started working for many/most people, so it was too late for F12 release" and "There are still some missing features, most notably missing blktap2 support for tap:aio: file-based images."

Libvirt List

This section contains the discussion happening on the libvir-list.

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 ==== No Xen dom0 in Fedora 12 Hopefully 13 ====
-Zhang Enming
+[[ZhangEnming|Zhang Enming]]
-was disappointed<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2009-November/msg00019.html</ref> to learn the support for hosting Xen guests, dropped in Fedora 9, is still not present in Fedora 12.
+was disappointed<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2009-November/msg00019.html</ref> to learn<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Virtualization</ref>  the pv_ops dom0 support<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvopsDom0</ref> for hosting Xen guests, dropped in Fedora 9, is still not present in Fedora 12.
+Zhang referenced numerous videos documenting success in creating "a fully working Xen pv-ops dom0 Fedora 11 host operating system."
-Zhang referenced numerous videos documenting success with Xen dom0 on Fedora
+While there are experimental patches which may be applied<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue190#Dom0_Kernel_Status</ref> <ref>http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps</ref> to the kernel to enable support for dom0, they are not yet in the upstream kernel which forms the basis the Fedora kernel package.
-. While there are experimental patches which may be applied<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue190#Dom0_Kernel_Status</ref> to the kernel to enable support
-for dom0, they are not yet in the upstream kernel which forms the basis the
-Fedora kernel package.
 It was decided<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2007-November/msg00106.html</ref> two years ago this month that
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 "the plan is to re-focus 100% of all Xen kernel efforts onto paravirt_ops."
 See FWN#137.<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue137#kernel-xen_is_Dead</ref>
+[[PasiKärkkäinen|Pasi Kärkkäinen]]
+noted<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2009-November/msg00020.html</ref>
+"pv_ops dom0 kernel has only recently started working for many/most
+people, so it was too late for F12 release" and
+"There are still some missing features, most notably missing blktap2 support
+for tap:aio: file-based images."
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