| Fedora Test Days | |
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| Virtualization Test Day | |
| Date | 2013-05-30 |
| Time | all day |
| Website | Virtualization |
| IRC | #fedora-test-day (webirc) |
| Mailing list | virt |
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 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 19. Test cases will basic virtualization workflow, some cool functionality, as well as new features introduced in Fedora 19.
Who's available
The following cast of characters will be available testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion ...
- Cole Robinson (crobinso)
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?). If unavailable, you can still help with testing QEMU support.
- 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 19 on a physical machine
The preferred testing platform is a fully updated Fedora 19 machine. You have a few options for getting the Fedora 18 bits:
- Install with CD/DVD.
- Latest live CD builds ('desktop' is the default): http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/
- Latest 64 Bit DVD: http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/18-Beta-TC6/Fedora/x86_64/iso/
- Upgrade from Fedora 18
- The supported way is using 'fedup': https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp#How_Can_I_Upgrade_My_System_with_FedUp.3F
- Update using 'yum': https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum
This method is not supported, but is very commonly used by developers. If you're a power user this is a possible option!
Fedora 19 virt packages on Fedora 18
If you aren't ready to make the jump to Fedora 19, this is the next best thing! Run latest virt packages on Fedora 18 from the virt-preview repo:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_Preview_Repository
Run Fedora 19 in a VM with nested virtualization
Do you have a new machine with a ton of ram and storage space, running Fedora 18? Nested virt might be an option! This allows you to create KVM guests _inside_ a Fedora 19 VM.
- Install the latest virt packages from virt-preview using the instructions above.
- Install a Fedora 19 guest using one of the test cases below.
- Use virt-manager to 'copy host CPU' for your VM. Boot the VM, install virtualization packages, and verify that nested virt is working by running the following command as root:
virt-host-validate
Some notes on nested virt with AMD and Intel:
- http://kashyapc.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/nested-virtualization-with-kvm-and-amd/
- http://kashyapc.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/nested-virtualization-with-kvm-intel/
- http://kashyapc.wordpress.com/2012/07/28/nested-virtualization-with-intel-take-2-with-fedora-17/
Areas to test
VM Install
Record your results for these test cases in the Test Results section.
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:
New tests and features
Record your results for these test cases in the Test Results section.
FIXME
libguestfs and tools
You will need Fedora 19 (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 19, 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.
Previous test cases
Some test cases used in previous test days. Still useful to test for regressions!
Fedora 17 features:
- Live VM disk backup
- VM suspend/hibernate
- VM sandboxing w/ syscall filters
- VM IO throttling
- VM PV EOI performance optimization
- USB3 device assignment
- USB Redirection
Migration:
Hotplug:
virtio-scsi:
Test Results
Each tester should add a row for their results.
If you have problems with any of the tests, report a bug to Bugzilla. If you have any questions about what component to file against, just shout in the IRC channel and we can help you out. Same goes for any selinux alerts you might see!
| User | VM Install | VM Lifecycle | References |
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| Cole Robinson |  |