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= Dale Bewley =
= Dale Bewley =
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Revision as of 19:00, 17 January 2009

Dale Bewley

I'm vegan and I mountain bike a lot.

Contact

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Virtualization Quick Start

Docs Virtualization Beat

FWN Virtualization Beat

158, 157, 156, 155, 154, 153, 152, 151, 150, 149, 148, 147, 146, 145, 144, 143, 142, 141, 140, 139, 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

Content

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.

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.

  • Download the drivers to guest and extract on desktop.
  • Shutdown the guest virsh shutdown winxp
  • Dump the libvirt XML virsh dumpxml winxp > winxp-before.xml, and change the network settings. To the <interface> block add <model type='virtio'/> like this:
[root@seitan virt]# diff -u winxp-before.xml winxp-after.xml 
--- winxp-before.xml	2008-12-01 17:37:39.000000000 -0800
+++ winxp-after.xml	2008-12-01 17:39:21.000000000 -0800
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
       <readonly/>
     </disk>
     <interface type='network'>
+      <model type='virtio'/>
       <mac address='54:52:00:03:09:01'/>
       <source network='default'/>
       <target dev='vnet0'/>
  • Redefine the domain with the altered config: virsh define winxp-after.xml
  • Start the guest virsh start winxp, and install the drivers within Windows when the new hardware detection wizard pops up.

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

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