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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 #fedora-docs)
- GPG key: 4F6056DE
- Fedora Account: dale
- Social Networks: Mugshot
- Blog: http://tofu.org/drupal/blog/1
- Home: http://dale.bewley.net
Activities within Fedora
Wiki Work
- All my wiki contributions
Virtualization Quick Start
- I'd like to take a whack at the Virtualization Quick Start. When will I find the time?
Docs Virtualization Beat
- I worked on the Virtualization release notes for F10 and F11.
FWN Virtualization Beat
- I work on the Fedora Weekly News Virtualization Beat since August '08.
- Past FWN Virtualization Beats:
165, 164, 163 162, 161, 160, 159, 158, 157, 156, 155, 154, 153, 152, 151, 150, 149, 148, 147, 146, 145, 144, 143, 142, 141, 140, 139, 138, 137
Notes To Self
- http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/ Richard Jones does cool stuff with
virt-*.
Release Notes Howto
Virtualization Release Notes F11
For the moment, I have copied the F10_Virtualization_Release_Notes for use in construction the F11 notes.
Preliminary Schedule:
- Prepare Alpha Release Notes (1 page) Mon 2009-02-02 Tue 2009-02-03
- Post Final Alpha Release Notes Tue 2009-02-03 Tue 2009-02-03
- Prepare Beta Release Notes (1 page) Mon 2009-03-23 Mon 2009-03-23
- Post Beta Release Notes One-Page Mon 2009-03-23 Mon 2009-03-23
Todo
- "One thing that's missing is a "new features and improvements" for KVM - both the kvm package, and the kvm support in the kernel." [1]
- Go over changelogs of pkgs and pick out notable diffs from F10 release ver to F11 ver.
Bugs
Features
- Virtualization VNC Authentication - accepted
- KVM PCI Device Assignment - accepted
- SVirt Mandatory Access Control - accepted
- Features/VirtImprovedConsole - accepted
- KVM_and_QEMU_merge - ?
Pushed to F12
Packages
Versions also see Virtualization_bugs
| Package | F10 Release | F10 Updates (20090203) | F11 Rawhide | Upstream | Rel Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
74-5 | 74-10 | 83-2 | http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/ChangeLog | |
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0.4.6-3 | 0.5.1-2 | 0.6.0-1 | http://www.libvirt.org/news.html | |
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0.400.0-4 | 0.400.0-5 | 0.400.1-1 | http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/download.html | |
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2.1.4-2 | 2.1.4-2 | 2.1.4-3 | http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ | |
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0.6.0-3 | 0.6.0-5 | 0.6.1-1 | http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/download.html | |
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0.2.9-6 | 0.2.9-6 | 0.3.1-5 | http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-mem/faq.html | |
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1.0.3-2 | 1.0.3-2 | 1.0.3-3 | http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top/ChangeLog.txt | |
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0.0.3-3 | 0.0.3-3 | 0.0.3-3 | http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/download.html | |
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3.3.0-1 | 3.3.0-1 | 3.3.1-3 | http://www.xen.org/download/ | |
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0.46-3 | 0.46-3 | 0.46-3 | http://cvs.bytesex.org/xenner.html | |
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0.5.3-1 | 0.5.4-1 | 0.5.4-1 | http://cvs.bytesex.org/xenwatch.html |
Virtualization Release Notes F10
Notes on Virtualization features for F10 used to create the F10 releases notes.
- Need to be done by Wed 2008-10-08 Schedule
Features
- Features/VirtStorage
- Features/VirtRemoteInstall
- Virtualization_Quick_Start
- F-10 pv_ops based kernel-xen tracker
Packages
Versions also see Virtualization_bugs
| Package | F9 Release | F9 Updates (20081110) | F10 Release | Upstream (20081110) | Rel Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
65-1 | 65-10 | 74-5 | 78 | http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/ChangeLog |
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0.4.2-1 | 0.4.6-2 | 0.4.6-3 | 0.4.6 | http://www.libvirt.org/news.html |
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0.300.3-5 | 0.300.3-7 | 0.400.0-4 | 0.400.0 | http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/download.html |
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n/a | 2.1.1-8 | 2.1.4-2 | 2.1.4 | http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ |
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0.5.4-3 | 0.5.4-4 | 0.6.0-3 | 0.6.0 | http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/download.html |
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n/a | n/a | 0.2.9-6 | 0.3.1 | http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-mem/faq.html |
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0.4.1.1-1 | 1.0.1-4 | 1.0.3-2 | 1.0.3 | http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top/ChangeLog.txt |
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0.0.3-1 | n/a | 0.0.3-3 | 0.0.3 | http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/download.html |
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3.2.0-10 | 3.2.0-15 | 3.3.0-1 | 3.3.0 | http://www.xen.org/download/ |
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0.29-2 | 0.41-1 | 0.46-3 | 0.46 | http://cvs.bytesex.org/xenner.html |
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n/a | 0.5.3-1 | 0.5.3-1 | 0.5.3 | http://cvs.bytesex.org/xenwatch.html |
- Quick hack to gather info for table above
#!/bin/bash
grep -v '^#' pkgs.in | while read line; do
grep -v '^#' dist.in | while read dist; do
pkg=`echo $line | awk '{print $1}'`
notes=`echo $line | awk '{print $2}'`
ver=`koji latest-pkg "$dist" "$pkg" | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}'`
echo "$pkg, $dist, $ver, $notes"
done
done
Post Release Quirks
F11
F10
Installing F10 DomU on F8 Dom0
On a F8 dom0. Installing F9 domU pulls kernel from releases/9/Fedora/x86_64/os/images/xen/vmlinuz this does not exist on F10 and thus creation fails. The version of 
python-virtinst
- http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=71125
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458164
Windows KVM Guest and Paravirt NIC Drivers
As seen in
FWN#152. The
- Download the drivers to guest and extract on desktop.
- Shutdown the guest
virsh shutdown winxp - Dump the libvirt XML
virsh dumpxml winxp > winxp-before.xml, and change the network settings. To the<interface>block add<model type='virtio'/>like this:
[root@seitan virt]# diff -u winxp-before.xml winxp-after.xml
--- winxp-before.xml 2008-12-01 17:37:39.000000000 -0800
+++ winxp-after.xml 2008-12-01 17:39:21.000000000 -0800
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
<readonly/>
</disk>
<interface type='network'>
+ <model type='virtio'/>
<mac address='54:52:00:03:09:01'/>
<source network='default'/>
<target dev='vnet0'/>
- Redefine the domain with the altered config:
virsh define winxp-after.xml - Start the guest
virsh start winxp, and install the drivers within Windows when the new hardware detection wizard pops up.
See also: http://www.linux-kvm.com/content/tip-how-setup-windows-guest-paravirtual-network-drivers