User:Dale

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. When will I find the time?

Docs Virtualization Beat

• I worked on the Virtualization release notes for F10 and F11.

FWN Virtualization Beat

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

166, 165, 164, 163 162, 161, 160, 159, 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

• F11 Notes
• F10 Notes
• F9 Notes
• F8 Notes

• http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/ Richard Jones does cool stuff with virt-*.

Release Notes Howto

• Docs/Beats/HowTo
• Docs/Beats#Fedora_Release_Notes_Beats

Virtualization Release Notes F11

For the moment, I have copied the F10_Virtualization_Release_Notes for use in construction the F11 notes.

Preliminary Schedule:

• Prepare Alpha Release Notes (1 page) Mon 2009-02-02 Tue 2009-02-03
• Post Final Alpha Release Notes Tue 2009-02-03 Tue 2009-02-03
• Prepare Beta Release Notes (1 page) Mon 2009-03-23 Mon 2009-03-23
• Post Beta Release Notes One-Page Mon 2009-03-23 Mon 2009-03-23

Todo

• "One thing that's missing is a "new features and improvements" for KVM - both the kvm package, and the kvm support in the kernel."
• Go over changelogs of pkgs and pick out notable diffs from F10 release ver to F11 ver.
  • kvm
  • libvirt
  • python-virtinst
  • qemu
  • virt-df
  • virt-manager
  • virt-mem
  • virt-top
  • virt-viewer
  • xen
  • xenner
  • xenwatch

Bugs

• Virtualization_bugs
• F11 Virt Target
• F11 Virt Blocker

Features

• Virtualization VNC Authentication - accepted
• KVM PCI Device Assignment - accepted
• SVirt Mandatory Access Control - accepted
• Features/VirtImprovedConsole - accepted
• KVM_and_QEMU_merge - ?

Pushed to F12

• Shared Network Interface

Packages

Versions also see Virtualization_bugs

Virtualization Package Versions

Package	F10 Release	F10 Updates (20090322)	F11 Rawhide	Upstream	Rel Notes
kvm	74-5	74-10	84 (see qemu)		http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/ChangeLog
libvirt	0.4.6-3	0.5.1-2	0.6.1-5		http://www.libvirt.org/news.html
python-virtinst	0.400.0-4	0.400.0-5	0.400.3-1		http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/download.html
qemu	0.9.1-10	0.9.1-10	0.10-0.9.kvm20090310git		http://www.nongnu.org/qemu/changelog.html
virt-df	2.1.4-2	2.1.4-2	2.1.4-4		http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/
virt-manager	0.6.0-3	0.6.0-5	0.7.0-1		http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/download.html
virt-mem	0.2.9-6	0.2.9-6	0.3.1-6		http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-mem/faq.html
virt-top	1.0.3-2	1.0.3-2	1.0.3-4		http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top/ChangeLog.txt
virt-viewer	0.0.3-3	0.0.3-3	0.0.3-4		http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/download.html
xen	3.3.0-1	3.3.0-1	3.3.1-9		http://www.xen.org/download/
xenner	0.46-3	0.46-3	0.46-6		http://cvs.bytesex.org/xenner.html
xenwatch	0.5.3-1	0.5.4-1	0.5.4-2		http://cvs.bytesex.org/xenwatch.html

Virtualization Release Notes F10

Notes on Virtualization features for F10 used to create the F10 releases notes.

• Need to be done by Wed 2008-10-08 Schedule

Features

• Features/VirtStorage
• Features/VirtRemoteInstall
• Virtualization_Quick_Start
• F-10 pv_ops based kernel-xen tracker

Packages

Versions also see Virtualization_bugs

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 Release Quirks

F10

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.

• 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