FWN/Beats/Virtualization

Virtualization

In this section, we cover discussion on the @et-mgmnt-tools-list, @fedora-xen-list, @libvirt-list and @ovirt-devel-list of Fedora virtualization technologies.

Contributing Writer: Dale Bewley

Enterprise Management Tools List

This section contains the discussion happening on the et-mgmt-tools list

Starting Guests from a Desktop Icon

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/et-mgmt-tools/2008-October/msg00100.html

[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/et-mgmt-tools/2008-October/msg00103.html

Fedora Xen List

This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-xen list.

Libvirt List

This section contains the discussion happening on the libvir-list.

Openvz Bridge Support and Related Patches

"This patch series is derived from Anton Protopopov /Evgeniy Sokolov bridge device patches. It first does some generic refactoring of MAC address handler in all drivers, then adds code to extract openvz version number, then does network config, and finally does filesystem config. " ...

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2008-October/msg00323.html

Image Locking

Itamar Heim [1] "I am interested to find out how libvirt envisions image locking. i.e., how do we make sure multiple nodes are not trying to access the same storage volume, probably causing image corruption."...

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2008-October/msg00334.html

Export the 'label' on Block Devices

Chris Lalancette [1] "To support LVM partitioning in oVirt, one of the things we need is the ability to tell what kind of label is currently on a block device. Here, a 'label' is used in the same sense that it is used in parted; namely, it defines which kind of partition table is on the disk, whether it be DOS, LVM2, SUN, BSD, etc. Note that this is different than the partition type; those are things like Linux, FAT16, FAT32, etc."...

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2008-October/msg00341.html

Experimental User Mode Linux Driver

Daniel P. Berrange [1] "This patch implements a driver supporting User Mode Linux guests. User mode linux is a kind of paravirtualized kernel which runs on a plain Linux host. It requires no elevated privileges at all, except for some of the network integration. It is a pretty straightforward thing to invoke, so I figured it would be easy to write a driver to support it. I was right :-)"...

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2008-October/msg00355.html

oVirt Devel List

This section contains the discussion happening on the ovirt-devel list.