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 put together the F10 Virtualization release notes.

FWN Virtualization Beat

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

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

Virtualization Release Notes F11

Bugs

• Virtualization_bugs
• F11 Virt Target
• F11 Virt Blocker

Features

• VirtVNCAuth
• KVM_PCI_Device_Assignment
• KVM_and_QEMU_merge

Virtualization Release Notes F10

I'm gathering links to become oriented with the Fedora Docs Project and Virtualization features for F10.

Howto

• Docs/Beats/HowTo
• Docs/Beats#Fedora_Release_Notes_Beats
• Need to be done by Wed 2008-10-08 Schedule

Content

• F10 Notes and F9 Notes and F8 Notes
• Features/VirtStorage
• Features/VirtRemoteInstall
• Virtualization_Quick_Start
• http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/ Richard Jones does cool stuff with virt-*.
• F-10 pv_ops based kernel-xen tracker

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 10 Release Quirks

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

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