Fedora Test Days | |
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Virtualization Test Day | |
Date | 2012-11-01 |
Time | all day |
Website | Virtualization |
IRC | #fedora-test-day (webirc) |
Mailing list | virt |
What to test?
Today's installment of Fedora Test Day will focus on Virtualization in Fedora 18. Test cases will basic virtualization workflow, some cool functionality, as well as new features introduced in Fedora 18.
Who's available
The following cast of characters will be available testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion ...
- Developer - Daniel Berrange (irc: danpb)
- Developer - Richard W.M. Jones (irc: rwmjones)
- Developer - Cole Robinson (irc: crobinso)
- Developer - Stefan Hajnoczi (irc: stefanha)
- Developer - Miroslav Rezanina (irc: mrezanin)
- Developer - Eric Blake (irc: eblake)
Known issues
Before you begin testing, there are a few known bugs that should be taken into account
- Pausing a KVM guest can crash that guest. Might be specific to guests using a QXL video device (the default created by virt-manager): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=870811
- running libvirtd inside a guest can break that guests networking. you can work around this by using 'sudo virsh net-edit default' inside the VM, and change all instances of 192.168.122 to 192.168.123 and restarting the VM: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=811967
What's needed to test
- A fully updated Fedora 18 Beta machine.
- Hardware virtualization support (e.g. Intel VT or AMD-V) (see Is My Guest Using KVM?). If unavailable, you can still help with testing QEMU support.
- At least one guest image installed before the test day (suggested reading - Virtualization_Quick_Start)
- Up to 10-20Gb free disk space. Guest images take up a lot of space.
Areas to test
Do these first!
If you don't already have a VM available, run through one of these test cases. A fully functioning VM is required for every other test case!
Next give this a run through, which should ensure things aren't broken in some obvious manner
News tests and features
- QA:Testcase Virtualization Live Backup
- QA:Testcase Virtualization Guest Suspend Hibernate
- QA:Testcase Virtualization Seccomp Sandboxing
- QA:Testcase Virtualization IO Throttling
- QA:Testcase Virtualization PV EOI
- QA:Testcase Virtualization USB3 Device Passthrough
- QA:Testcase Virtualization USB Redirection
Previous test cases
Some test cases used in previous test days. Still useful to test for regressions!
Migration
- QA:Testcase Live Migration using libvirt/virsh
- QA:Testcase Offline (paused) Migration using libvirt/virsh
Spice
- QA:Testcase Virtualization Check SPICE password support
- QA:Testcase Virtualization Manually set spice listening port with TLS port set
- QA:Testcase Virtualization Setting up a VM with Spice
- QA:Testcase Virtualization Spice listen on all public network interfaces
libvirt
- QA:Testcase Virtualization libvirt create a logical pool
- QA:Testcase Virtualization libvirt save and restore with svirt
- QA:Testcase Virtualization libvirt set guest memory
Hotplug
- QA:Testcase Virtualization Attach/Detach a SCSI device to guest
- QA:Testcase Virtualization Hotplug USB device to guest
- QA:Testcase Virtualization NIC Hotplug virsh attach detach
virtio-scsi
libguestfs and tools
You will need Fedora 18 (host) and at least one guest (but the more the merrier).
Install libguestfs:
# yum install '*guestf*'
and run through the tests here: http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-testing.1.html
In Fedora 18, we are using libvirt to launch the appliance, and sVirt + SELinux to make everything much more secure. Therefore it's better (though not required) if you can run these tests with SELinux set to enforcing.
GuestOS compatibility
- GuestOS compatibility
— test installation of as many different guest operating system as as possible. (You will need a KVM bare metal host & lots of disk space)