See Test_Day:2009-05-07_Virtualization.
This test area is concerned with testing that different OSes install successfully as a KVM guest on a Fedora host.
Prerequisites
Tests
Install some of the following guest OSes:
- Fedora 9
- Fedora 10
- Fedora 11
- RHEL or CentOS 4
- RHEL or CentOS 5
- Windows XP
- Windows 2K3
- Windows Vista
- Windows 7 preview
- Debian 5
- Solaris/OpenSolaris
- FreeBSD
- SuSE/OpenSuSE
using virt-manager and/or virt-install.
If possible, use different install methods - e.g. DVD ISO, http, nfs etc. installs for Fedora/RHEL.
Results
If you have problems with any of the tests, file a bug report in bugzilla.
Once you have completed an install, add its details to the tables below.
Put here what you experienced in general
| Tester
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Comment
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| Rainer Koenig
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When installing from a phsical CD/DVD in Virtual Machine Manager everything works fine. But the connection to the CD/DVD media is stored for the virtual machine, so if the media is removed you will experience an error on the next attempt to start this virtual machine. Solution: "Details" tab of that machine window and disconnect the CD drive here. See 473154
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| Rainer Koenig
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Strange effect observed, unfortunately only once: A guest installation seemed to hang and I tried to kill it with "Shutdown/Force off". The effect was that not only this guest was killed but all running guests on that host. So far not reproducable in my lab.
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Machine info
Enter some details on the machines you used to do the test:
| Machine
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Description
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| CELSIUS M470
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Entry workstation, Tylersburg chipset, Intel E5504 Quadcore CPU, 4 GB RAM, 500 GB harddisk, Fedora 11 (x86_64), (Datasheet), Smolt
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Distribution specific test results
In 'Arch' column use
- 32-on-32 for i686 guest on i686 host
- 32-on-64 for i686 guest on x86_64 host
- 64-on-64 for x86_64 guest on x86_64 host
- 64-on-32 for x86_64 guest on i686 host (plain QEMU emulation, no KVM)
Please indicate whether using 'qemu' or 'kvm'. virt-manager defaults to kvm, except in 64-on-32). virt-install defaults to qemu
unles the --accelerate flag is given. You can verify by running 'virsh dumpxml GUEST' and looking at top level <domain type='qemu|kvm'> element
Fedora 9 results
| Tester
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Machine
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Arch
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Result
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Comment
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| Rainer Koenig
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CELSIUS M470
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32-on-64
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success
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Installed via HTTP
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Fedora 10 results
| Tester
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Machine
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Arch
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Result
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Comment
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| Rainer Koenig
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CELSIUS M470
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64-on-64
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success
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Installed via HTTP
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Fedora 11 results
| Tester
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Machine
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Arch
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Result
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Comment
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| Rainer Koenig
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CELSIUS M470
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64-on-64
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success
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Installed via PXE. On first shutdown after installation the guest locked up instead of turningg off, but this wasn't reproducable afterwards.
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RHEL4 or CentOS4 results
Please specify the precise RHEL4.x update used to install in comments
| Tester
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Machine
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Arch
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Result
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Comment
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| Rainer Koenig
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CELSIUS M470
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64-on-64
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success
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Installed RHEL4.7ES from HTTP
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RHEL5 or CentOS5 results
Please specify the precise RHEL5.x update used to install in comments
| Tester
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Machine
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Arch
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Result
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Comment
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| Rainer Koenig
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CELSIUS M470
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64-on-64
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Success
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Installed over HTTP with vit-manager
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Windows XP results
| Tester
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Machine
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Arch
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Result
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Comment
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| Rainer Koenig
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CELSIUS M470
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32-on-64
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success
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Installed XP Professional SP2 from recovery CD
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Windows Vista results
| Tester
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Machine
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Arch
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Result
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Comment
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| Rainer Koenig
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CELSIUS M470
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32-on-64
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success
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Installed Vista Home Premium SP1 from recovery CD
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Windows 2k3 results
| Tester
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Machine
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Arch
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Result
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Comment
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| Santwana Samantray
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INTEL LS21
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success
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Installed Windows2003 Server from ISO using virt-manager
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Windows 7 preview results
| Tester
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Machine
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Arch
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Result
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Comment
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Debian 5 results
| Tester
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Machine
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Arch
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Result
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Comment
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| Rainer Koenig
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CELSIUS M470
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64-on-64
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workaround needed
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Installed from Lenny netinstall CD. First attempt didn't work. So I filed Bug 499555 in Bugzilla.
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Solaris/OpenSolaris results
| Tester
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Machine
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Arch
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Result
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Comment
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FreeBSD results
| Tester
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Machine
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Arch
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Result
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Comment
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SUSE / openSUSE results
| Tester
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Machine
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Arch
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Result
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Comment
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| Rainer Koenig
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CELSIUS M470
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64-on-64
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sucess
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openSUSE 11.1 installed via PXE
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| Rainer Koenig
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CELSIUS M470
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64-on-64
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success
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SLES 11 installed via PXE
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