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==== Forward-ported Xen dom0 Kernel Patches ==== | |||
Previous dom0 support in Fedora was based on patches against 2.6.18 which were carried | |||
forward to the kernel version found in the Fedora release of the time. As of | |||
Fedora 9 <ref>http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9/en_US/sn-Virtualization.html</ref> | |||
this practice ceased and work began on creating a pv_ops-based kernel<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvopsDom0</ref> cabable | |||
of functioning as a dom0, and based on the most recent kernel. | |||
This work is incomplete and not expected to be until F12 or F13, but | |||
there have been experimental kernels built (add link to previous dom0 news). | |||
[[PasiKärkkäinen|Pasi Kärkkäinen]] | |||
tells<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2009-July/msg00000.html</ref> us | |||
<pre> | |||
For reference here are the latest Xenlinux 2.6.18 forward-ported patches to | |||
standard/kernel.org Linux 2.6.29 and 2.6.30. Forward-porting has been | |||
done by Novell for OpenSUSE. Novell also has a forward-port to 2.6.27 for SLES11. | |||
See this thread for the latest patches: | |||
http://www.nabble.com/2.6.30-dom0-Xen-patches-td24293721.html | |||
Patches for 2.6.29 and 2.6.30 available here: | |||
http://code.google.com/p/gentoo-xen-kernel/downloads/list | |||
Also available here: | |||
http://x17.eu/xen/ | |||
Someone interested in building Xen dom0 capable kernel for F11, based on | |||
these patches? These patches are still more stable and mature than the | |||
pv_ops dom0 code.. Also, these patches have the full Xen feature set | |||
(pv_ops still lacks some features). | |||
If you have any problems with these patches, please post to xen-devel mailinglist. | |||
</pre> | |||
<references /> | <references /> | ||
Revision as of 00:30, 10 July 2009
Virtualization
In this section, we cover discussion of Fedora virtualization technologies on the @et-mgmnt-tools-list, @fedora-xen-list, @libvirt-list and @ovirt-devel-list lists.
Contributing Writer: Dale Bewley
Enterprise Management Tools List
This section contains the discussion happening on the et-mgmt-tools list
Fedora Virtualization List
This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-virt list.
New list for libguestfs
Richard Jones
announced[1]
the creation of a new list[2] dedicated to
"
libguestfsguestfish/virt-inspector discussion/development".
Fedora Virt Status Update
Mark McLoughlin posted[1] another Fedora Virt Status Update reminding that Fedora 12 is quickly approaching with the Feature Freeze on 2009-07-28.
Also mentioned were:
- Details of a fix for "a dramatic slowdown in virtio-blk performance in F-11 guests"[2]
- Note on Xen Dom0 support.
- New wiki pages created.
- Detailed run-down of current virt bugs.
USB Passthrough to Virtual Machines
Mark McLoughlin posted instructions[1]
This has been covered in FWN, find ref
best Fedora virtualization
I am planning on running several virtual machines on a single host. I will have two or three Linux baeed virtual machines and one or two Windoze. I plan on using a F11 host system. I need most of these to run automatically on boot-up of the host system. It would be really nice if I could use something like the Ctl-Alt-FN to be able to access and switch between virtual machines. This needs to be stable. The machines that these virtual machines are intended to replace are often running hundreds of days between reboots. My gut feel is that the virt-manager suite might be the way to go, editting the apropriate xml files as required. I also see there is a qemu launcher and it seems to work okay. I suspect there are others as well. What tends to be the consensus here on the various virtual machine managers? Are there white papers somewhere that could give some insight?
Richard Jones answered[2]
For stability and long-term maintainability, I wonder if you've considered using RHEL or CentOS? That means you have to use Xen as the hypervisor, but if you use libvirt / virsh / virt-manager, the future upgrade path to KVM is reasonable. All tools stay the same, and you just need to run our forthcoming v2v tool on the guests (or reinstall the guests) when you upgrade.
The only one we're supporting here on Fedora<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization</ref> is libvirt / virsh / virt-manager. Use 'virsh edit <domain>' to edit the XML for a domain. The same commands will work on RHEL / CentOS too.
Rich Mahn reported problems with ISO images stored on NFS and Gene Czarcinski opened[3] a bug (RHBZ #508865
I suspect this is the result of trying to use SELinux to protect everything and the mandatory access control idea that everything is disallowed except that which is explicitly permitted. But, I just do not understand what and why CD/DVD images and devices are being protected. Furthermore, when virtualization changes a file's context (including /dev/sr0), could this effect other valid usage of these files/devices? If there is no effect for other applications, then just what is protected?
507555
Libvirt List
This section contains the discussion happening on the libvir-list.
Fedora-Xen List
Forward-ported Xen dom0 Kernel Patches
Previous dom0 support in Fedora was based on patches against 2.6.18 which were carried forward to the kernel version found in the Fedora release of the time. As of Fedora 9 [1]
this practice ceased and work began on creating a pv_ops-based kernel[2] cabable
of functioning as a dom0, and based on the most recent kernel.
This work is incomplete and not expected to be until F12 or F13, but there have been experimental kernels built (add link to previous dom0 news).
Pasi Kärkkäinen tells[3] us
For reference here are the latest Xenlinux 2.6.18 forward-ported patches to standard/kernel.org Linux 2.6.29 and 2.6.30. Forward-porting has been done by Novell for OpenSUSE. Novell also has a forward-port to 2.6.27 for SLES11. See this thread for the latest patches: http://www.nabble.com/2.6.30-dom0-Xen-patches-td24293721.html Patches for 2.6.29 and 2.6.30 available here: http://code.google.com/p/gentoo-xen-kernel/downloads/list Also available here: http://x17.eu/xen/ Someone interested in building Xen dom0 capable kernel for F11, based on these patches? These patches are still more stable and mature than the pv_ops dom0 code.. Also, these patches have the full Xen feature set (pv_ops still lacks some features). If you have any problems with these patches, please post to xen-devel mailinglist.