| Fedora Test Days | |
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| Virtualization Test Day | |
| Date | Thursday 2015-04-16 |
| Time | all day |
| Website | Virtualization |
| IRC | #fedora-test-day |
| Mailing list | virt |
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If you come to this page before or after the test day is completed, your testing is still valuable, and you can use the information on this page to test, file any bugs you find at Bugzilla, and add your results to the results section. If this page is more than a month old when you arrive here, please check the current schedule [on Fedocal] and see if a similar but more recent Test Day is planned or has already happened.
What to test?
Today's installment of Fedora Test Day will focus on Virtualization in Fedora 22. Test cases will basic virtualization workflow, some cool functionality, as well as new features introduced in Fedora 22.
Who's available
The following cast of characters will be available for testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion.
- Cole Robinson (crobinso)
Known issues
None yet.
What's needed to test
For starters, your physical machine should have:
- Hardware virtualization support (e.g. Intel VT or AMD-V) (see Is My Guest Using KVM?).
- Up to 10-20Gb free disk space. Guest images take up a lot of space.
- Get the packages with:
yum groupinstall virtualization
As for getting the latest virt packages, you have a few options:
Fedora 22 on a physical machine
The preferred testing platform is a fully updated Fedora 21 machine. You have a few options for getting the Fedora 22 bits:
Install with CD/DVD
There isn't any install media yet, will update this section when some is available.
Upgrade from Fedora 21
- The supported way is using 'fedup': FedUp#How_Can_I_Upgrade_My_System_with_FedUp.3F You may also find the instructions in the fedup test case useful for using fedup to upgrade to a pre-release.
- Upgrade using 'yum': This method is not officially supported, but is very commonly used by developers. If you're a power user this is a possible option!
Run Fedora 22 in a VM with nested virtualization
Do you have a new machine with a ton of ram and storage space, running Fedora 22? Nested virt might be an option! This allows you to create KVM guests inside a Fedora 22 VM.
Use the virt-preview instructions below, install a guest using one of the install test cases, and follow the nested virt test case to finish the setup and verify things are working correctly.
Fedora 22 virt packages on Fedora 21
If you aren't ready to make the jump to Fedora 22, this is the next best thing! Run latest virt packages on Fedora 21 from the virt-preview repo:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_Preview_Repository
Areas to test
All these tests have an entry in the Test Results table, please record them there.
VM Install
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!
- Guest install via CDROM/ISO
- Guest install via URL
- Import existing VM image (your own disk image, or Fedora cloud image, or virt-builder image)
Standard features
These are recurring tests of standard virt features, they ensure nothing obvious is broken.
- VM Lifecycle (start, stop, save, clone, delete, ...)
- VM snapshot management
- Spice features: copy/paste, drag/drop, USB redirection, auto guest resize
- Change CDROM media for running VM
- Host USB device hotplug
- Host PCI device assignment
- Enabling nested virtualization for a VM
- Live migration (steps included for doing this with a single physical host)
- Run Fedora ARM image as a VM on x86
New features
No test cases yet
Extra tests
These tests aren't listed in the 'test results' table, but consider giving them a spin and reporting any issues on IRC or bugzilla.
libguestfs and tools
You will need Fedora 21 (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
Previous test cases
Some test cases used in previous test days. Still useful to test for regressions!
Fedora 21 features:
Fedora 20 features:
Fedora 19 features:
- Virtio RNG (Random Number Generator)
- Live migration without shared storage (steps included for doing this with a single physical host)
- Host PCI device assignment using VFIO
Fedora 18 features:
- Live VM disk backup
- VM suspend/hibernate
- VM sandboxing w/ syscall filters
- VM IO throttling
- VM PV EOI performance optimization
- USB3 device passthrough
Misc tests:
- Guest install via PXE (only if you have a pre-existing PXE setup)
- NIC hotplug with virsh
- Virtio SCSI install
- Virtio SCSI hotplug
- VM serial console login
All tests:
Debugging
Test Results
This section will have more info when we are closer to the test day.