DaleBewley

Dale Bewley

I'm vegan and I mountain bike a lot.

Contact

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

Activities within Fedora

• All my wiki contributions

Release Notes Virtualization Beat

• I just volunteered to work on the Virtualization release notes. See below.

FWN Virtualization Beat

• I work on the FWN Virtualization Beat.
• Past FWN Virtualization Beats:

145, 144, 143, 142, 141, 140 n/a, 139 n/a, 138, 137

Notes To Self

Virtualization Release Notes

I'm gathering links to become oriented with the Fedora Docs Project and Virtualization features for F10.

Howto

• Docs/Beats/HowTo
• Docs/Beats#Fedora_Release_Notes_Beats
• Need to be done by Wed 2008-10-08 Schedule

Content

• F10 Notes and F9 Notes and F8 Notes
• Features/VirtStorage
• Features/VirtRemoteInstall
• Virtualization_Quick_Start
• http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/ Richard Jones does cool stuff with virt-*.

Versions

Virtualization Package Versions

Package	F9 Release	F9 Updates (20081003)	Rawhide	F10 Release	Rel Notes
kvm	65-1	65-9	74-4		http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/ChangeLog
libvirt	0.4.2-1	0.4.6-2	0.4.6-3		http://www.libvirt.org/news.html
python-virtinst	0.300.3-5	0.300.3-7	0.400.0-1
virt-df	n/a	2.1.1-8	2.1.3-2		http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/
virt-manager	0.5.4-3	0.5.4-4	0.6.0-1		http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/download.html
virt-mem	n/a	n/a	0.6.0-1		http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-mem/faq.html alpha qaulity - 32bit QEMU and KVM only
virt-top	0.4.1.1-1	1.0.1-4	1.0.1-2		http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top/ChangeLog.txt
virt-viewer	0.0.3-1	n/a	0.0.3-3
xen	3.2.0-10	3.2.0-15	3.3.0-1		http://www.xen.org/download/
xenner	0.29-2	0.41-1	0.46-1		http://cvs.bytesex.org/xenner.html

Other Improvements

• Detection of remote systems supporting libvirt has been added to virt-manager. See http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/page/LibvirtDiscovery

• Utilities in the new virt-mem package provide access to process tables, interface information, dmesg, and uname of a guest from the host system.

Virtualization Release Notes Scratch Space

Remote Installation of Virtual Machines

Detailed Description Fully support remote guest creation in virt-install and virt-manager. This entails allowing a way to specify existing managed storage on the remote connection, or provisioning new storage on an existing pool at install time. Install methods are either PXE or a managed cdrom.

Ideally coupled with this will be better remote connection support: use libvirt's avahi advertising to search for potential remote connections when adding a connection in virt-manager.

Benefit to Fedora Remote VM installation isn't for everyone but it's pretty compelling for folks managing more than one physical machine for virtualization. A central box can be used to do all provisioning, where previously an admin would have to interact directly with the host. This will also encourage interested users to manage their storage and installation media using libvirt's storage capabilities, whose benefits are outlined at the VirtStorage feature page.

For further information see Features/VirtRemoteInstall.

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