Test Day:2010-04-08 Virtualization

DATE	TIME	WHERE
Thursday April 8, 2010	From 12:00 to 21:00 UTC (8am -> 5pm EDT)	#fedora-test-day (webirc)

What to test?

Today's installment of Fedora Test Day will focus on Virtualization improvements in Fedora 13. There is a large list of virtualization improvements coming in Fedora. To simplify things, testing will be divided up into a number of sections.

If you come to this page after the test day is completed, your testing is still valuable, and you can use the information on this page to test and provide feedback.

Who's available

The following cast of characters will be available testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion ...

• Development - Justin Forbes
• Quality Assurance - mdoyle,

What's needed to test

• A fully updated Fedora 13 Beta machine. See instructions below.
• Hardware virtualization support (e.g. Intel VT or AMD-V) (see How_to_debug_Virtualization_problems#Is_My_Guest_Using_KVM.3F Is My Guest Using KVM?). If unavailable, you can still help with testing QEMU support.
• At least one guest image installed before the test day (suggested reading - Virtualization_Quick_Start)
• Up to 10-20Gb free disk space. Guest images take up a lot of space.
• See the individual test area pages for specific requirements.

How to test?

Update your machine

See the instructions on the Branched page on the various ways in which you can install or update to the Branched release. You should have at least the following packages installed.

• kernel-2.6.33.1-19.fc13
• libvirt-0.7.7-1.fc13
• python-virtinst-0.500.2-3.fc13
• qemu-0.12.3-6.fc13
• seabios-0.5.1-1.fc13
• virt-manager-0.8.3-2.fc13

Install Fedora 13

Testing requires the latest virtualization software included in Fedora Rawhide. Update your system to the latest rawhide using one of the following techniques.

• Download and install Test Day Live Image
• Install from a nearby Fedora 13 mirror
• Download and install Fedora 13 Beta RC5

Note: if you are using the Live CD image, you will need to mount storage for guests either from the local disk or from NFS. If the latter, you will need to run setsebool virt_use_nfs=on in order for it to work with SELinux.

Test Cases

When ready, select a category below and follow the instructions provided in each of the test cases:

General Virt

• PXE booting

• Live Migration

KVM

• VHostNet
• VirtioSerial

libvirt

• Stable PCI Addresses

• Shared Network Interface

• VNC Resource Tunnel

libguestfs, guestfish

Read more about this here: Features/libguestfs

• libguestfs tests to try

As Xen Guest (DomU)

• Xen DomU

Network interface management

• Interface management with virt-manager

Report your Results

If you have problems with any of the tests, report a bug to bugzilla. If you are unsure about exactly how to file the report, just ask on IRC and we will help you. Once you have completed the tests, add your results to the Results table below, following the example results from FIXME as a template. The first column should be your name with a link to your User page in the Wiki if you have one. For each test case, if your system worked correctly, simply enter the word PASS. If you had trouble, enter the word FAIL, with a link to the bug report for the failure. If you could not perform one test (for example, you cannot perform the more advanced tests because the basic one fails, or you cannot perform the private LDAP test as you do not have access to an LDAP server), enter the word N/A. In the comments column, you can enter any short, additional information about your testing environment.

Test Results

Each column should be a test case or configuration, and each row should consist of test results. Include a link where to report bugs. For example:

Please report all bugs into Bugzilla against the component listed in the individual test area.

Things that Work Well

User	Smolt Profile	Description	Status
User:Rhe	HW	Basic Migration using Qemu command-line	pass
jlaska	HW	No trouble with provided libguestfs tests	pass
ericb	HW	virt-manager network interfaces appears to work	pass
User:lxu	HW	Migration failure cleans up properly	pass
User:lxu	HW	VNC resource tunnel console and serial devices works properly	pass
User:lxu	HW	Stable PCI addresses tests passed	pass

Issues that Were Identified

User	Smolt Profile	Description	Status	References
User:Rhe	HW	PXE Booting failed	fail
User:pbenas	HW	qemu: could not open disk image: Permission denied	fail
ericb	HW	guestfish should support xz	fail
ericb	HW	virt-manager: creating a new VM fails with Operation not permitted	fail
ericb	HW	virt-inspector: undefined value as ARRAY reference	fail
jlaska	HW	Unable to start any guests on F-13 host	fail
ericb	HW	virt-manager: hard to change underlying directory of storage pool	fail
ericb	HW	virt-manager: UI improvement for new volume name	fail
liam	HW	create guest and install rhel5.4 on f13, guest can not get ip address	fail
liam	HW	Can not bring network interfaces up after it was down	fail
liangsuilong	HW	can not boot URL install on xenner hypervisor	fail
User:lxu	HW	Network doesn't work after Live Migration	fail
User:lxu	HW	virt-manager can't detect 32-bit qemu-kvm memory limit	fail
User:lxu	HW	virt-manager can't create a reasonable traceback without a serial in VM	fail