2010-09-23 Virtualization

DATE	TIME	WHERE
Thursday September 23, 2010	From 12:00 to 21:00 UTC (8am -> 5pm EDT)	#fedora-test-day (webirc)

What to test?[edit]

Today's installment of Fedora Test Day will focus on Virtualization improvements in Fedora 14. There is a large list of virtualization improvements coming in Fedora. To simplify things, testing will be divided up into a number of sections.

If you come to this page after the test day is completed, your testing is still valuable, and you can use the information on this page to test and provide feedback.

Who's available[edit]

The following cast of characters will be available testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion ...

Development - Justin Forbes
Development / general help - Richard W.M. Jones (rwmjones on FreeNode)
Development - Eric Blake (eblake on FreeNode)

What's needed to test[edit]

A fully updated Fedora 14 Alpha machine. See instructions below.
Hardware virtualization support (e.g. Intel VT or AMD-V) (see How_to_debug_Virtualization_problems#Is_My_Guest_Using_KVM.3F Is My Guest Using KVM?). If unavailable, you can still help with testing QEMU support.
At least one guest image installed before the test day (suggested reading - Virtualization_Quick_Start)
Up to 10-20Gb free disk space. Guest images take up a lot of space.
See the individual test area pages for specific requirements.

How to test?[edit]

Update your machine[edit]

See the instructions on the Branched page on the various ways in which you can install or update to the Branched release. You should have at least the following packages installed.

Install Fedora 14[edit]

Testing requires the latest virtualization software included in Fedora Rawhide. Update your system to the latest rawhide using one of the following techniques.

Note: if you are using the Live CD image, you will need to mount storage for guests either from the local disk or from NFS. If the latter, you will need to run setsebool virt_use_nfs=on in order for it to work with SELinux.

Test Cases[edit]

When ready, select a category below and follow the instructions provided in each of the test cases:

General Virt[edit]

PXE booting

Live Migration

KVM[edit]

VHostNet

libvirt[edit]

None sumbitted

libguestfs, guestfish[edit]

Read more about this here: Features/libguestfs

libguestfs tests to try

As Xen Guest (DomU)[edit]

Xen DomU

Report your Results[edit]

If you have problems with any of the tests, report a bug to bugzilla. If you are unsure about exactly how to file the report, just ask on IRC and we will help you. Once you have completed the tests, add your results to the Results table below, following the example results from FIXME as a template. The first column should be your name with a link to your User page in the Wiki if you have one. For each test case, if your system worked correctly, simply enter the word PASS. If you had trouble, enter the word FAIL, with a link to the bug report for the failure. If you could not perform one test (for example, you cannot perform the more advanced tests because the basic one fails, or you cannot perform the private LDAP test as you do not have access to an LDAP server), enter the word N/A. In the comments column, you can enter any short, additional information about your testing environment.

Test Results[edit]

Each column should be a test case or configuration, and each row should consist of test results. Include a link where to report bugs. For example:

Please report all bugs into Bugzilla against the component listed in the individual test area.

Things that Work Well[edit]

User	Smolt Profile	Description	Status	References
FasUser	Dell PE4500	Sample Description	pass virt-manage warn live-migration ^[1]	↑ RHBZ #123456
David Ramsey	Add smolt profile link for Dell Precision 470	inprogress Will report component entries with additional details. • General Virt - post results • KVM - post result • libvirt - no testing • libguestfs, guestfish - post result • Xen Guest - post result • Interface management with virt-manager - post result	inprogress Will report component entries with additional details. • General Virt - post results • KVM - post result • libvirt - no testing • libguestfs, guestfish - post result • Xen Guest - post result • Interface management with virt-manager - post result
jlaska	MacBookPro5,5	Testing gPXE	pass Creating br0 device using virt-manager
ericb	Lenovo Thinkstation D20	Testing virt-manager	pass Creating new VM from existing disk image
User:Rhe	inprogress	gPXE booting	pass

Issues that Were Identified[edit]

User	Smolt Profile	Description	References
SampleUser	Dell PE4500	fail ^[1] ^[2]	↑ RHBZ #654321 ↑ live-migration failed to complete
quintela		fail ^[1] ^[2]	↑ RHBZ #636832 ↑ domxml-to-native always set rtl8139
ericb	Lenovo Thinkstation D20	fail ^[1] ^[2]	↑ RHBZ #637244 ↑ spurious error when inspecting 64-bit image from 32-bit host
ericb	Lenovo Thinkstation D20	fail ^[1] ^[2]	↑ RHBZ #637251 ↑ poor virt-inspector handling of data-only disk image
ericb	Lenovo Thinkstation D20	fail ^[1] ^[2]	↑ RHBZ #637252 ↑ virt-resize incompatible with 32-bit host
ericb	Lenovo Thinkstation D20	fail ^[1] ^[2]	↑ RHBZ #541618 ↑ virt-inspector can't read MirBSD UFS partition

[bz123456-1] RHBZ #123456

[bz654321-2] RHBZ #654321

[3] ve-migration failed to complete

[bz636832-4] RHBZ #636832

[5] xml-to-native always set rtl8139

[bz637244-6] RHBZ #637244

[7] spurious error when inspecting 64-bit image from 32-bit host

[bz637251-8] RHBZ #637251

[9] r virt-inspector handling of data-only disk image

[bz637252-10] RHBZ #637252

[11] virt-resize incompatible with 32-bit host

[bz541618-12] RHBZ #541618

[13] virt-inspector can't read MirBSD UFS partition

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