FWN/Beats/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.

Contributing Writer: Dale Bewley

Enterprise Management Tools List

This section contains the discussion happening on the et-mgmt-tools list

Fedora Xen List

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

Libvirt List

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

Libvirt 0.4.6 Released

Daniel Veillard announced[1] the release of libvirt 0.4.6. "There is no major change in this release, just the bug fixes a few improvements and some cleanup".

Improvements include:

• add storage disk volume delete (Cole Robinson)
• KVM dynamic max CPU detection (Guido Günther)
• spec file improvement for minimal builds (Ben Guthro)
• improved error message in XM configuration module (Richard Jones)
• network config in OpenVZ support (Evgeniy Sokolov)
• enable stopping a pool in logical storage backend and cleanup deletion of pool (Chris Lalancette)

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2008-September/msg00380.html

RFC: Events API

David Lively began[1] a discusion on implementation of events in libvirtd.

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2008-September/msg00321.html

Windows Binaries

Richard W.M. Jones pointed[1] out that -- while not an official distribution -- binaries for libvirt-0.dll and virsh.exe are available[2] in the mingw32-libvirt package.

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2008-September/msg00393.html

[2] http://www.annexia.org/tmp/mingw/fedora-9/

oVirt Devel List

This section contains the discussion happening on the ovirt-devel list.

oVirt 0.93-1 Released

Perry N. Myers [1]

both the oVirt Node and oVirt Server Suite.

New features in this release include:

• Addition of 'Smart Pools' in the Web user interface for organizing pools on a per user basis.
• Additions to the Edit VM screen to allow re-provisioning of a guest as well editing other guest settings.
• oVirt Appliance manages VMs directly on the host it is running on. This eliminates the 'fake nodes' used in previous versions.
• oVirt API (Ruby Bindings)
• Support for configuring more than one NIC per Node. UI support for this will be integrated shortly.
• Support for bonding/failover of NICs. UI support for this will be integrated shortly.
• SELinux support on oVirt Node
• Rewrite of performance graphing visualization

Instructions for configuring yum to point to the ovirt.org repository: http://www.ovirt.org/download.html

Instructions for using the Appliance and Nodes: http://www.ovirt.org/install-instructions.html

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/ovirt-devel/2008-September/msg00491.html

Modeling LVM Storage

Chris Lalancette [1]

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/ovirt-devel/2008-September/msg00313.html