| DATE | TIME | WHERE |
| Thursday Sep 17, 2009 | All day | #fedora-test-day (webchat) |
What to test?
Today's installment of Fedora Test Day will focus on Virtualization improvements in Fedora 12. There is a large list of virtualization improvements coming in Fedora. To simplify things, testing will be divided up into the following sections.
General Virt
- Features/VirtgPXE
- Live migration
KVM
- Features/KSM
- Features/KVM_Huge_Page_Backed_Memory
- Features/KVM_NIC_Hotplug
- Features/KVM_qcow2_Performance
- Features/KVM_Stable_Guest_ABI
libvirt
- Features/libguestfs
- Features/VirtStorageManagement
- Features/Network_Interface_Management
- Features/VirtTCK
- Features/VirtPrivileges
Intel Hardware Enablement
- Features/SR-IOV
- VT-d
If you come to this page after the test day is completed, your testing is still valuable, and you can use the information on this page to test with your graphics card and provide feedback.
Who's available
The following cast of characters will be available for testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion ...
- Development - Mark McLoughlin
- Quality Assurance -
What's needed to test
- A fully updated Fedora 12 Rawhide machine. See instructions below
- Hardware virtualization support (e.g. Intel VT or AMD-V). If unavailable, you can still help with testing QEMU support.
- At least one guest image installed before the test day.
- Up to 10-20Gb free disk space. Guest images take up a lot of space.
- See test areas below for area specific requirements
How to test?
Prepare your system
Testing requires the latest virtualization software included in Fedora Rawhide. Update your system to the latest rawhide using one of the following techniques.
- Install from a nearby rawhide mirror
- Download and install Test Day Live Image
- Download and install Fedora 12 Alpha
Testing
Things to test, roughly in dependency order:
List test cases for each feature.
Report your results
Describe the process for adding test results.
Results
Provide sample output format for testers to publish feedback.