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Fedora Test Days
Virtualization Test Day
Date 2013-10-05
Time all day
Website Virtualization
IRC #fedora-test-day
Mailing list virt
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What to test?

Today's installment of Fedora Test Day will focus on Virtualization in Fedora 20. Test cases will basic virtualization workflow, some cool functionality, as well as new features introduced in Fedora 20.

Who's available

The following cast of characters will be available testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion ...

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 20 on a physical machine

The preferred testing platform is a fully updated Fedora 20 machine. You have a few options for getting the Fedora 20 bits:

Install with CD/DVD

You can download the Fedora 20 Alpha in various formats here.

Upgrade from Fedora 19

Run Fedora 20 in a VM with nested virtualization

Do you have a new machine with a ton of ram and storage space, running Fedora 19? Nested virt might be an option! This allows you to create KVM guests inside a Fedora 20 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 20 virt packages on Fedora 19

If you aren't ready to make the jump to Fedora 20, this is the next best thing! Run latest virt packages on Fedora 19 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!

Standard features

These are recurring tests of standard virt features, they ensure nothing obvious is broken.

New features

Test cases forthcoming...

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 20 (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 19 features:

Fedora 18 features:

Misc tests:

All tests:

Debugging

Test Results

We will be tracking results in a web application, details forthcoming

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