Test Day:2009-05-07 Virtualization Guest Installs: Difference between revisions

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See Test_Day:2009-05-07_Virtualization.

This test area is concerned with testing that different OSes install successfully as a KVM guest on a Fedora host.

Prerequisites

Tests

Install some of the following guest OSes:

Fedora 9
Fedora 10
Fedora 11
RHEL or CentOS 4
RHEL or CentOS 5
Windows XP
Windows 2K3
Windows Vista
Windows 7 preview
Debian 5
Solaris/OpenSolaris
FreeBSD
SuSE/OpenSuSE

using virt-manager and/or virt-install.

If possible, use different install methods - e.g. DVD ISO, http, nfs etc. installs for Fedora/RHEL.

Results

If you have problems with any of the tests, file a bug report in bugzilla.

Once you have completed an install, add its details to the tables below.

General comments

Put here what you experienced in general

Tester	Comment
Rainer Koenig	When installing from a phsical CD/DVD in Virtual Machine Manager everything works fine. But the connection to the CD/DVD media is stored for the virtual machine, so if the media is removed you will experience an error on the next attempt to start this virtual machine. Solution: "Details" tab of that machine window and disconnect the CD drive here. See 473154
Rainer Koenig	Strange effect observed, unfortunately only once: A guest installation seemed to hang and I tried to kill it with "Shutdown/Force off". The effect was that not only this guest was killed but all running guests on that host. So far not reproducable in my lab.

Machine info

Enter some details on the machines you used to do the test:

Machine	Description
CELSIUS M470	Entry workstation, Tylersburg chipset, Intel E5504 Quadcore CPU, 4 GB RAM, 500 GB harddisk, Fedora 11 (x86_64), (Datasheet), Smolt

Distribution specific test results

In 'Arch' column use

- 32-on-32  for i686 guest on i686 host
- 32-on-64  for i686 guest on x86_64 host
- 64-on-64  for x86_64 guest on x86_64 host
- 64-on-32  for x86_64 guest on i686 host (plain QEMU emulation, no KVM)

Please indicate whether using 'qemu' or 'kvm'. virt-manager defaults to kvm, except in 64-on-32). virt-install defaults to qemu unles the --accelerate flag is given. You can verify by running 'virsh dumpxml GUEST' and looking at top level <domain type='qemu|kvm'> element

Fedora 9 results

Tester	Machine	Arch	Result	Comment
Rainer Koenig	CELSIUS M470	32-on-64	success	Installed via HTTP

Fedora 10 results

Tester	Machine	Arch	Result	Comment
Rainer Koenig	CELSIUS M470	64-on-64	success	Installed via HTTP

Fedora 11 results

Tester	Machine	Arch	Result	Comment
Rainer Koenig	CELSIUS M470	64-on-64	success	Installed via PXE. On first shutdown after installation the guest locked up instead of turningg off, but this wasn't reproducable afterwards.

RHEL4 or CentOS4 results

Please specify the precise RHEL4.x update used to install in comments

Tester	Machine	Arch	Result	Comment
Rainer Koenig	CELSIUS M470	64-on-64	success	Installed RHEL4.7ES from HTTP

RHEL5 or CentOS5 results

Please specify the precise RHEL5.x update used to install in comments

Tester	Machine	Arch	Result	Comment
Rainer Koenig	CELSIUS M470	64-on-64	Success	Installed over HTTP with vit-manager

Windows XP results

Tester	Machine	Arch	Result	Comment
Rainer Koenig	CELSIUS M470	32-on-64	success	Installed XP Professional SP2 from recovery CD

Windows Vista results

Tester	Machine	Arch	Result	Comment
Rainer Koenig	CELSIUS M470	32-on-64	success	Installed Vista Home Premium SP1 from recovery CD

Windows 2k3 results

Tester	Machine	Arch	Result	Comment
Santwana Samantray	INTEL LS21		success	Installed Windows2003 Server from ISO using virt-manager

Windows 7 preview results

Tester	Machine	Arch	Result	Comment

Debian 5 results

Tester	Machine	Arch	Result	Comment
Rainer Koenig	CELSIUS M470	64-on-64	workaround needed	Installed from Lenny netinstall CD. First attempt didn't work. So I filed Bug 499555 in Bugzilla.

Solaris/OpenSolaris results

Tester	Machine	Arch	Result	Comment

FreeBSD results

Tester	Machine	Arch	Result	Comment

SUSE / openSUSE results

Tester	Machine	Arch	Result	Comment
Rainer Koenig	CELSIUS M470	64-on-64	sucess	openSUSE 11.1 installed via PXE
Rainer Koenig	CELSIUS M470	64-on-64	success	SLES 11 installed via PXE

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