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Virtualization Test Day
Date Thursday 2015-04-16
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Website Virtualization
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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.

Known issues

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 22 machine. You have a few options for getting the Fedora 22 bits:

Install with CD/DVD

You can download the latest Fedora 22 Beta composes here:

Upgrade from Fedora 21

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.

Ensure you are using the latest virt packages!

Several updated packages were pushed to Fedora 22 only recently. The recommended versions are:

  • qemu-system-x86-2.3.0-0.3.rc2.fc22.x86_64 (same version for all qemu* packages)
  • libvirt-daemon-1.2.13-2.fc22.x86_64
  • virt-manager-1.1.0-7.git6dbe19bd8.fc22

If a 'yum update' isn't pulling these packages in, try 'sudo yum clean all', then 'sudo yum update'.

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

These are 'newish'. We had them here last year but things have been improved quite a bit.

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 22 (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:

Fedora 18 features:

Misc tests:

All tests:

Debugging

Test Results

VM Install

User Hardware Guest Install via CDROM Guest Install via URL Import VM References
knoel Intel Haswell laptop nested
Pass pass
[1]
  1. ↑ Installed Fedora 22 guest 1 on Fedora 21 host. Installed Fedora 22 nested guest.
jardafas lenovo 440s nested
Pass pass
[1]
  1. ↑ Installation passed on nested kvm. Dir storage pool was used as a target. Creation and management of the storage was done via virt-manager. The guest booted normally, network was working as well.
crobinso None
Pass pass
[1][2][3]
Pass pass
[4]
Pass pass
Pass pass
  1. ↑ RHBZ #1211797
  2. ↑ RHBZ #1211796
  3. ↑ Test virt-manager and virt-install for all install methods. Tested with beta RC1 media, not RC2 on the wiki but hopefully it doesn't matter. There's a couple minor issues with the os listings, see the bugs.
  4. ↑ Tested virt-manager and virt-install.
jsnow lenovo yoga 1 x86_64
Warning warn
[1][2][3]
Fail fail
[4]
Pass pass
[5]
Pass pass
[6]
Pass pass
[7]
  1. ↑ RHBZ #1212599
  2. ↑ RHBZ #1212616
  3. ↑ RHBZ #1212617
  4. ↑ f22rc2 via virt-manager: Failed to download packages during first run, did not reproduce. Second attempt had the guest freeze hang with 0% cpu usage during post-installation setup-tasks.
  5. ↑ via virt-install: hard guest freeze, cannot reproduce. second run passed.
  6. ↑ virt-install --import (win7 ultimate sp1 x64)
  7. ↑ virt-manager import: OS version drop down is difficult to read: bad UX.
jenelson IBM System x3655
Pass pass
[1]
Fail fail
[2][3]
  1. ↑ aarm64 installation
  2. ↑ RHBZ #1212575
  3. ↑ VM appears to be running, but virt-viewer fails to connect.
pschindl Lenovo ThinkPad T540p
Pass pass
[1][2][3]
Pass pass
Pass pass
  1. ↑ RHBZ #1211797
  2. ↑ RHBZ #1211796
  3. ↑ Installation works fine with both virt-manager and virt-install. libosinfo doesn't recognize any of f22 images (it says f21 for all lives and None for anything else e. g. workstation netinst).
abologna Lenovo ThinkPad T440s
Pass pass
[1]
Pass pass
[2]
  1. ↑ Installation of Debian 8.0 with virt-manager was successful.
  2. ↑ Deleting the VM without deleting the disk image and then importing the disk image worked correctly as well.

Standard Features

User Hardware VM Lifecycle VM snapshots Spice features Change VM CDROM Host USB hotplug Host PCI assignment Nested virt Live migration ARM on x86 References
knoel Intel Haswell laptop nested
Warning warn
[1]
Pass pass
[2]
  1. ↑ I had mixed success. I was using virt-manager (except to set host-passthrough at level 0). Creating a nested guest, I got "No virtual networks available". But, the network in the L1 host was working. I used it to download the iso. Creating a nested guest, I got a strange error, "Unable to complete install: 'list.remove(x): x not in list'. I was trying to create the VM with a virtio-scsi disk. When I switched to virtio-blk, it worked. I'm not sure if I can reproduce this.
  2. ↑ Nested virt worked well. I used host-passthrough at L0 on Fedora 21 and SandyBridge at L1 using Fedora 22. I did everything with virt-manager using the Fedora 22 beta workstation iso. Except I used virsh edit to set host-passthrough for the L0 host. In the L1 host, I ran yum update to make sure I had qemu 2.3 rc3. I didn't get a default network for the L2 guest. And, I had trouble using virtio-scsi for the L2 guest.
crobinso None
Warning warn
[1][2][3]
Pass pass
Warning warn
[4][5]
Warning warn
[6][7]
Pass pass
[8]
Pass pass
[9]
Pass pass
[10]
Pass pass
[11]
  1. ↑ RHBZ #1211795
  2. ↑ RHBZ #1211760
  3. ↑ Mostly worked. Hit libvirt crash on VM delete a couple times. Delete wizard didn't notice new clone storage.
  4. ↑ RHBZ #1211761
  5. ↑ Mostly passed. Some weirdness with the auto resize feature.
  6. ↑ RHBZ #1211761
  7. ↑ Worked. But 'eject' needs to be run twice. See the bug
  8. ↑ Used a usb2.0 thumbdrive for testing, and F22 Workstation VM
  9. ↑ Used intel NIC for passthrough. Only verified it appeared in lspci in the VM, didn't test it was working.
  10. ↑ Worked if using host-passthrough
  11. ↑ Used virt-install
jsuchane lenovo 440s nested
Pass pass
[1]
Fail fail
[2][3]
  1. ↑ Operations via virsh: 1. start -- PASSED 2. suspend -- PASSED - state reflected in virt-manager as well 3. resume -- PASSED 4a. managedsave -- PASSED 4b. save/restore -- PASSED 5. destroy -- PASSED Clone/Delete 1. clone -- PASSED 2. clone -- PASSED 3. start -- PASSED 4. shutdown -- PASSED 5. delete -- PASSED
  2. ↑ RHBZ #1212471
  3. ↑ 1. create snapshot1 with stopped vm -- PASSED 2. create snapshot2 with running vm -- PASSED 3. create snapshot3 with running vm and launched application -- PASSED 4. run snapshot2 -- PASSED 5. run snapshot1 -- PASSED 6. shutdown -- FAILED, bz 1212471 created
jsuchane lenovo 440s
Pass pass
[1]
  1. ↑ No problems spotted. For the nested guest I used dir storage located on a secondary disk.
ericb Lenovo T500
Fail fail
[1][2]
  1. ↑ RHBZ #1212620
  2. ↑ Regression in event reporting makes it impossible to filter life-cycle events of just one domain
jsnow lenovo yoga 1 x86_64
Pass pass
[1]
Pass pass
[2]
Warning warn
[3]
  1. ↑ win7 ultimate sp1 x64
  2. ↑ w7 sp1 x64: minor visual artifacting when restoring snapshot 2
  3. ↑ No confirmation/visual feedback for drag/drop, but copy worked. USB redirection works for w7 guest. Resize does not work to downscale.
shajyan lenovo 440s nested
Warning warn
[1]
Fail fail
[2]
  1. ↑ Save / Restore problem (could not reproduce) saved - OK restored - Not OK -> VM does not get mouse input, but domain was running immediately after it I cloned the VM, with cloned one both save/restore worked properly Next multiple save/restore actions were without problems
  2. ↑ Resize problem ( GNOME classic desktop ) Symptoms: The login freezes, showing the grey desktop only (reproducable multiple times), maybe it will react after some timeout, didn't wait for hours 1) Start VM with the settings View -> Scale Display -> Always with "Auto resize with VM window" unchecked! 2) Check the "Auto resize with VM window" option 3) Reboot the VM from menu: Virtual Machine -> Reboot 4) Try to login -> The login freezes, showing the grey desktop only How to revert back to normal: Uncheck the "Auto resize with VM window" and reboot
abologna Lenovo ThinkPad T440s
Warning warn
[1]
Pass pass
  1. ↑ RHBZ #1217491

New Features

User Hardware AArch64 on x86 x86 UEFI VM References
crobinso None
Warning warn
[1]
Pass pass
[2]
  1. ↑ Test virt-manager. URL install took a long time just to start, but it did reach the installer, but I stopped there. CDROM install made it past package install but appeared to hang at 'post install' handling.
  2. ↑ Installed with virt-manager, using URL install. Seemed to hang when I clicked 'reboot' at end of the installer but other than that it all worked fine.
kparal None
Pass pass
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