Virtualization
In this section, we cover discussion of Fedora virtualization technologies on the @et-mgmnt-tools-list, @fedora-virt, @fedora-xen-list, @libguestfs, @libvirt-list, @virt-tools-list, and @ovirt-devel-list lists.
Contributing Writer: Dale Bewley
Enterprise Management Tools List
This section contains the discussion happening on the et-mgmt-tools list
Fedora Virtualization List
This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-virt list.
Libguestfs List
This section contains the discussion happening on the libguestfs list.
New Release libguestfs 1.0.59
Richard Jones
announced[1]
the release of libguestfs
1.0.59.
New Features:
- Support for Linux extended attributes.
- Allow guestfish to be controlled remotely, so you can use one guestfish instance in a long-running shell script.
- Support for reiserfs.
- New function 'guestfs_zfile' -- 'file' inside compressed files.
- New guestfish command 'reopen' -- reopen guestfish connection.
- guestfish -x option (echo commands).
- New function 'guestfs_version' to get the library version.
See previous release announcement for 1.0.57 in FWN#184[2] and be sure to see the project homepage[3] for extensive usage examples.
New Hypervisor Migration Tool virt-v2v
Matthew Booth posted[1] his "initial thoughts on the design for the v2v tool". This tool will be used to implement the planned Fedora 12 feature "Xen to KVM Migration"[2].
Virtualization Tools List
This section contains the discussion happening on the virt-tools-list list.
Libvirt List
This section contains the discussion happening on the libvir-list.
Fedora-Xen List
This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-xen list.