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Dale Bewley
I'm vegan and I mountain bike a lot.
Contact
- Email: [[MailTo(dale AT bewley DOT net)]
- IRC: dbewley (not there often, sometimes #fedora-admin)
- GPG key: 4F6056DE
- Fedora Account: dale
- Social Networks: Mugshot
- Blog: http://tofu.org/drupal/blog/1
- Home: http://dale.bewley.net
Activities within Fedora
- All my wiki contributions
Release Notes Virtualization Beat
- I just volunteered to work on the Virtualization release notes. See below.
FWN Virtualization Beat
- I work on the FWN Virtualization Beat.
- Past FWN Virtualization Beats:
145, 144, 143, 142, 141, 140 n/a, 139 n/a, 138, 137
Notes To Self
Virtualization Release Notes
I'm gathering links to become oriented with the Fedora Docs Project and Virtualization features for F10.
Howto
- Docs/Beats/HowTo
- Docs/Beats#Fedora_Release_Notes_Beats
- Need to be done by Wed 2008-10-08 Schedule
Content
- F10 Notes and F9 Notes and F8 Notes
- Features/VirtStorage
- Features/VirtRemoteInstall
- Virtualization_Quick_Start
- http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/ Richard Jones does cool stuff with
virt-*.
Versions
| Package | F9 Release | F9 Updates (20081003) | Rawhide | F10 Release | Rel Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| kvm | 65-1 | 65-9 | 74-4 | http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/ChangeLog | |
| libvirt | 0.4.2-1 | 0.4.6-2 | 0.4.6-3 | http://www.libvirt.org/news.html | |
| python-virtinst | 0.300.3-5 | 0.300.3-7 | 0.400.0-1 | ||
| virt-df | n/a | 2.1.1-8 | 2.1.3-2 | http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ | |
| virt-manager | 0.5.4-3 | 0.5.4-4 | 0.6.0-1 | http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/download.html | |
| virt-mem | n/a | n/a | 0.6.0-1 | http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-mem/faq.html alpha qaulity - 32bit QEMU and KVM only | |
| virt-top | 0.4.1.1-1 | 1.0.1-4 | 1.0.1-2 | http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top/ChangeLog.txt | |
| virt-viewer | 0.0.3-1 | n/a | 0.0.3-3 | ||
| xen | 3.2.0-10 | 3.2.0-15 | 3.3.0-1 | http://www.xen.org/download/ | |
| xenner | 0.29-2 | 0.41-1 | 0.46-1 | http://cvs.bytesex.org/xenner.html |
Other Improvements
Need to pick improvements from release notes above.
virt-manager Updated to 0.400.0
https://www.redhat.com/archives/et-mgmt-tools/2008-September/msg00027.html New features:
- New tool 'virt-convert': Allows converting between different types of virt configuration files. Currently only supports vmx -> virt-image.
- New tool 'virt-pack': Converts virt-image xml format to vmx and packs in a tar.gz. (Note this will likely be merged with virt-convert in the future).
- virt-install: Support for remote VM installation. Can use install media and disk images on remote host if shared via libvirt. Allows provisioning storage on remote pools.
- virt-install new options:
new --wait option, allows putting a hard time limit on installs.
new --sound option, to create VM with soundcard emulation.
new --disk option, allows specifying media as a path, storage volume, or
a pool to provision storage on, device type, and several other options.
Deprecates --file, --size, --nonsparse.
new --prompt option. Input prompting is no longer the default, this
option turns it back on.
- virt-install: allow setting cpu pinning information for qemu/kvm VMs.
- virt-install: numa support via --cpuset=auto option.
- virt-image: --replace option to overwrite existing VM image file.
- virt-image: support multiple network interfaces in virt-image format.
- use virtio disk/net drivers if chosen os entry supports it (Fedora 9/10, Ubuntu Hardy).
- Numerous bug fixes and minor improvements.
libvirt Updated to 0.4.6
New features and improvments since 0.4.2:
- Enhanced OpenVZ support
- Enhanced Linux containers (LXC) support
- Storage pools API
- Improved iSCSI support
- USB device passthrough for QEmu and KVM
- Sound, serial, and parallel device support for QEmu and Xen
- Support for NUMA and vCPU pinning in QEmu
- Unified XML domain and network parsing for all virtualization drivers
For further details see: http://www.libvirt.org/news.html
Xen Updated to 3.3.0
This is a major new release with a host of new features including:
- Power management (P & C states) in the hypervisor
- HVM emulation domains ('qemu-on-minios') for better scalability, performance and security
- PVGrub: boot PV kernels using real GRUB inside the PV domain
- Better PV performance: domain lock removed from pagetable-update paths
- Shadow3: optimisations to make this the best shadow pagetable algorithm yet, making HVM performance better than ever
- Hardware Assisted Paging enhancements: 2MB page support for better TLB locality
- CPUID feature levelling: allows safe domain migration across systems with different CPU models.
- PVSCSI drivers for SCSI access direct into PV guests
- HVM framebuffer optimisations: scan for framebuffer updates more efficiently
- Device passthrough enhancements
- Full x86 real-mode emulation for HVM guests on Intel VT: supports a much wider range of legacy guest OSes
- New qemu merge with upstream development
- Many other changes in both x86 and IA64 ports
For further details see: http://www.xen.org/download/