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 #fedora-docs)
• GPG key: 4F6056DE
• Fedora Account: dale
• Social Networks: Mugshot
• Blog: http://tofu.org/drupal/blog/1
• Home: http://dale.bewley.net

Activities within Fedora

Wiki Work

• All my wiki contributions

Virtualization Quick Start

• I'd like to take a whack at the Virtualization Quick Start

Docs Virtualization Beat

• I'm working on the F10 Virtualization release notes.

FWN Virtualization Beat

• I work on the Fedora Weekly News Virtualization Beat since August '08.
• Past FWN Virtualization Beats:

153, 152, 151, 150 n/a, 149, 148, 147, 146, 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-*.
• F-10 pv_ops based kernel-xen tracker

Versions

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

• Quick hack to gather info for table above

#!/bin/bash
grep -v '^#' pkgs.in | while read line; do
    grep -v '^#' dist.in | while read dist; do
            pkg=`echo $line | awk '{print $1}'`
            notes=`echo $line | awk '{print $2}'`
            ver=`koji latest-pkg "$dist" "$pkg" | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}'`
            echo "$pkg, $dist, $ver, $notes"
    done
done

Post 10 Release Quirks

Installing F10 DomU on F8 Dom0

On a F8 dom0. Installing F9 domU pulls kernel from releases/9/Fedora/x86_64/os/images/xen/vmlinuz this does not exist on F10 and thus creation fails. The version of python-virtinst on F8 does not know the kernel path changed. Try this test version and give it some positive karma if it works for you.

• http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=71125
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458164

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. (not yet tested)

• Download the drivers to guest
• Shutdown the guest virsh shutdown domain
• Dump the libvirt XML virsh dumpxml domain > domain.xml, and change the network settings. To the <interface> block add:

 <model type='virtio'/>

• Redefine the domain with the altered config virsh define domain.xml
• Start the guest virsh start domain and install the driver within Windows

See also: http://www.linux-kvm.com/content/tip-how-setup-windows-guest-paravirtual-network-drivers

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