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Notes To Self

Previous Fedora Virtualization Release Notes

F11, F10, F9, F8

Release Notes Howto

Virtualization Release Notes F12

For the moment, I have copied the F11 Virtualization Release Notes for use in construction the F12 notes.

Bugs

Features

  • VirtioSerial Adds a virtio-serial device to guests running on top of qemu and kvm - accepted
  • Hostinfo Allow a virtual machine to see information and statistics from the host operating system - pending
  • VirtgPXE Replace the deprecated etherboot pxe booting infrastructure with the more modern and currently upstream supported gpxe. - accepted
  • libguestfs Libguestfs is a library for accessing and modifying virtual machine disk images. guestfish is an interactive shell tool for editing virtual machine disk images. - accepted
Technically, this actually launched in F11, but not as a "Feature" http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f11/en-US/sect-Release_Notes-Virtualization.html
  • SR-IOV Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) is a PCI feature which allows virtual functions (VF) to be created that share the resources of a physical function (PF). - accepted
  • KVM Huge Page Backed Memory - Enable KVM guests to use huge page backed memory in order to reduce memory consumption and improve performance by reducing CPU cache pressure. - accepted
  • KVM qcow2 Performance - Improve the I/O performance of virtual machines using disk images in the qcow2 image format. - accepted
  • Network Interface Management - Provide tools to easily set up commonly used network configurations, like bridges, bonds, vlan's and sensible combinations thereof, in particular for virtualized hosts. - accepted
  • KSM - Allow KVM guest virtual machines to share identical memory pages. This is especially useful when running multiple guests from the same or similar base operating system image. Because memory is shared, the combined memory usage of the guests is reduced. - accepted
  • KVM NIC Hotplug - Allow the addition of a guest network interface (NIC) a guest virtual machine without needing to restart the guest. - accepted
  • KVM Stable Guest ABI - Allow guest virtual machines to be presented with the same application binary interface across QEMU upgrades. - accepted
  • Virt Privileges - Improve security by adjusting the privileges of QEMU processes managed by libvirt. Also, allow KVM to be used by unprivileged users. - accepted
  • Virt Storage Management - Enable VM hosts to discover new SAN storage and issue NPIV operations. - accepted

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:F12_Virt_Features

Accepted
Technically, made it into F11, but...
Pushed to F13

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

  1. ↑ https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-February/msg00009.html

Bugs

Features


Packages

Versions also see Virtualization_bugs (script to make table)

Virtualization Package Versions
Package f10 Release f10 Updates (20090516) f11 Release f11 Updates (20090516) Rawhide (20090516) Rel Notes
kvm 74-5.fc10 74-10.fc10 n/a n/a n/a http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/ChangeLog
libvirt 0.4.6-3.fc10 0.5.1-2.fc10 0.6.2-8.fc11 0.6.2-8.fc11 0.6.2-8.fc11 http://www.libvirt.org/news.html
libguestfs n/a n/a n/a 1.0.21-3.fc11 n/a http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/
python-virtinst 0.400.0-4.fc10 0.400.0-5.fc10 0.400.3-8.fc11 0.400.3-8.fc11 0.400.3-8.fc11 http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/ download.html
virt-df 2.1.4-2.fc10 2.1.5-1.fc10 2.1.5-1.fc11 2.1.5-1.fc11 2.1.5-1.fc11 http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/
virt-manager 0.6.0-3.fc10 0.6.0-5.fc10 0.7.0-4.fc11 0.7.0-4.fc11 0.7.0-4.fc11 http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/download.html
virt-mem 0.2.9-6.fc10 0.2.9-6.fc10 0.3.1-6.fc11 0.3.1-6.fc11 0.3.1-6.fc11 http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-mem/faq.html
virt-top 1.0.3-2.fc10 1.0.3-2.fc10 1.0.3-4.fc11 1.0.3-4.fc11 1.0.3-4.fc11 http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top/ChangeLog.txt
virt-viewer 0.0.3-3.fc10 0.0.3-3.fc10 0.0.3-4.fc11 0.0.3-4.fc11 0.0.3-4.fc11
qemu 0.9.1-10.fc10 0.9.1-12.fc10 0.10-16.fc11 0.10-16.fc11 0.10-16.fc11 http://www.nongnu.org/qemu/changelog.html
xen 3.3.0-1.fc10 3.3.0-1.fc10 3.3.1-11.fc11 3.3.1-11.fc11 3.3.1-11.fc11 http://www.xen.org/download/
xenner 0.46-3.fc10 0.46-3.fc10 0.46-6.fc11 0.46-6.fc11 0.46-6.fc11 http://cvs.bytesex.org/xenner.html
xenwatch 0.5.3-1.fc10 0.5.4-1.fc10 0.5.4-2.fc11 0.5.4-2.fc11 0.5.4-2.fc11 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

Packages

Versions also see Virtualization_bugs

Virtualization Package Versions
Package F9 Release F9 Updates (20081110) F10 Release Upstream (20081110) Rel Notes
kvm 65-1 65-10 74-5 78 http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/ChangeLog
libvirt 0.4.2-1 0.4.6-2 0.4.6-3 0.4.6 http://www.libvirt.org/news.html
python-virtinst 0.300.3-5 0.300.3-7 0.400.0-4 0.400.0 http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/download.html
virt-df n/a 2.1.1-8 2.1.4-2 2.1.4 http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/
virt-manager 0.5.4-3 0.5.4-4 0.6.0-3 0.6.0 http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/download.html
virt-mem n/a n/a 0.2.9-6 0.3.1 http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-mem/faq.html
virt-top 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
virt-viewer 0.0.3-1 n/a 0.0.3-3 0.0.3 http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/download.html
xen 3.2.0-10 3.2.0-15 3.3.0-1 3.3.0 http://www.xen.org/download/
xenner 0.29-2 0.41-1 0.46-3 0.46 http://cvs.bytesex.org/xenner.html
xenwatch n/a 0.5.3-1 0.5.3-1 0.5.3 http://cvs.bytesex.org/xenwatch.html

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 on F8 does not know the kernel path changed. Try this test version and give it some positive karma if it works for you.

Windows KVM Guest and Paravirt NIC Drivers

As seen in FWN#152. The virt-manager GUI doesn't have the knobs in the UI yet to enable virtio drivers. THe libvirt framework underneath does support it, so it can be done by hand. Here's how.

  • 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

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