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Dale Bewley

I'm vegan and I mountain bike a lot.

Contact

Email: dale AT bewley DOT net
IRC: dbewley (not there often, sometimes #fedora-admin #fedora-docs)
GPG key: 4F6056DE
Fedora Account: dale
Social Networks: Mugshot, Facebook
Blog: http://tofu.org/drupal/blog/1
Home: http://dale.bewley.net

Activities within Fedora

Wiki Work

All my wiki contributions

FWN Virtualization Beat

Pondering FWN on Zikula
I have contributed to Fedora Weekly News in the Virtualization Beat since August '08.
Past FWN Virtualization Beats:

205, 204, 203, 202, 201, 200, 199, 198, 197, 196, 195, 194, 193, 192, 191, 190, 189, 188, 187, 186, 185, 184, 183, 182, 181, 180, 179, 178, 177, 176, 175, 174, 173, 172 171, 170, 169, 168, 167, 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

Docs Virtualization Beat

I worked on the Virtualization release notes for F10 through F12.

Virtualization Quick Start

I'd like to take a whack at the Virtualization Quick Start. When will I find the time?

Virtualization Release Notes

Previous Fedora Virtualization Release Notes:

F13 (later), F12, F11, F10, F9, F8

Release Notes Howto

Relnotes Scratchpad Pages

For each release I begin by gathering all the info I can and place it on the following pages before moving it to the public release notes beat page.

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 * [[User:Dale/Virtualization_Release_Notes_Scratchpad/11 | 11]]
 * [[User:Dale/Virtualization_Release_Notes_Scratchpad/10 | 10]]
-== Misc Virt ==
-=== Windows KVM Guest and Paravirt NIC Drivers ===
-As seen in [[FWN/Issue152#Using_VirtIO_Network_Driver_for_Windows_KVM_Guest|
-FWN#152]]. The {{package|virt-manager}} GUI doesn't have the knobs in the UI yet to
-enable [http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Virtio virtio] drivers. THe {{package|libvirt}} framework underneath does support it, so it can be done by hand. Here's how.
-* [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=180599 Download] the drivers to guest and extract on desktop.
-* Shutdown the guest <code>virsh shutdown winxp</code>
-* Dump the libvirt XML <code>virsh dumpxml winxp > winxp-before.xml</code>, and change the network settings. To the <code><interface></code> block add <code><model type='virtio'/></code> like this:
-<pre>
-[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'/>
-</pre>
-* Redefine the domain with the altered config: <code>virsh define winxp-after.xml</code>
-* Start the guest <code>virsh start winxp</code>, 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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