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Virtualization Test Day
Date 2023-10-09
Time all day
Website Virtualization
IRC #fedora-test-day
Mailing list virt
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What to test?[edit]

Today's installment of Fedora Test Day will focus on Virtualization in Fedora 39. We will be interested covering the regular virt-install, KVM, Boxes, Vbox.

Who's available[edit]

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

What's needed to test[edit]

For starters, your physical machine should have:

  • Hardware virtualization support (e.g. Intel VT or AMD-V) (see Is My Guest Using KVM?).
  • Up to 10-20Gb free disk space. Guest images take up a lot of space.
  • Get the packages with: dnf groupinstall virtualization

As for getting the latest virt packages, you have a few options:

Fedora 39 on a physical machine[edit]

The preferred testing platform is a fully updated Fedora 39 machine. You have a few options for getting the Fedora 39 bits:

Install with CD/DVD[edit]

You can download the latest Fedora 39 composes here:

Run Fedora 39 in a VM with nested virtualization[edit]

Do you have a new machine with a ton of ram and storage space, running Fedora 37/38? Nested virt might be an option! This allows you to create KVM guests inside a Fedora 39 VM.

Run the tests[edit]

Visit the result page and click on the column title links to see the tests that need to be run: most column titles are links to a specific test case. Follow the instructions there, then enter your results by clicking the Enter result button for the test.

Reporting bugs[edit]

If you have problems with any of the tests, have a look in the results page. 

If you don't see it, please file a new bug to Bugzilla. If you are unsure about exactly how to file the report or what other information to include, just ask on IRC #fedora-test-day or #fedora-qa and we will help you.

Test Results[edit]

KVM Install[edit]

User Profile Current KVM install Previous KVM install Guest Install Via URL Import VM References
Daniels MeLE Mini PC WS 39 Beta 1.1 _Upgraded also QEMU Standard PC _Q35 + ICH9, 2009_ Intel® Celeron® N5105 × 4 Gn 45 Linux 6.5.7-300.fc39.x86_64
Pass pass
[1]
  1. ↑ Through Both the Creation and Upgrade ......... No problemo!!!!
Daniels WS 39 Beta - Upgraded : QEMU Standard PC _Q35 + ICH9, 2009_ Intel® Pentium® 4415U × 4 Encrypted
Pass pass
[1]
  1. ↑ Private Python App running.Seemed to prevent system from continuing through creation.) I used shell Term......... All went OK.
felipetg Workstation-Live-x86_64-39_Beta-1.1.iso nested in Fedora 38 6.5.5-200.fc38.x86_64
Pass pass
geraldosimiao Fedora 39 KDE spin on KVM - pt_BR
Pass pass
hricky Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, Rev 1.4, Firmware Version 2023.04, 8GB
Pass pass
[1]
Pass pass
[2]
Pass pass
[3]
  1. ↑ host: Fedora Linux 39 (Server Edition Prerelease), guests: Fedora CoreOS 39.20231002.1.1 next and 38.20231002.2.2 testing
  2. ↑ host: Fedora Linux 38 (Server Edition), guest: Fedora CoreOS 39.20231002.1.1 next
  3. ↑ host: Fedora Linux 39 (Server Edition Prerelease), guests: Fedora CoreOS 39.20231002.1.1 next and 38.20231002.2.2 testing
nixuser Host is F39 on Dell Precision T5610 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2603 v2 @ 1.80GHz (8 cores total) NVIDIA Corporation GK104 [GeForce GTX 760] (rev a1)
Pass pass
[1]
  1. ↑ Host is F39, guests are RHEL 9.2 and CentOS Stream 9

Boxes Install[edit]

User Profile Current Boxes Install References
brianmcarey Framework 13 i5-1240P |
Pass pass
felipetg Gnome Boxes Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-39_Beta-1.1.iso nested in Gnome Boxes Fedora 38 6.5.5-200.fc38.x86_64
Fail fail
[1]
  1. ↑ After launching Gnome Boxes, the session of the VM closed. After a second attempt, it loaded the installer but the VM hanged during the language selection page of the installer. I had to force a shutdown, and the VM could no longer boot.
rai510 Gnome Boxes Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-39_Beta-1.1.iso
Pass pass

Virtual Box[edit]

User Profile Install Shared Clipboard References
nixuser F39 host on Dell Precision T5610 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2603 v2 @ 1.80GHz (8 cores total) NVIDIA Corporation GK104 [GeForce GTX 760] (rev a1)
Pass pass
[1]
  1. ↑ Guests ~ Rawhide (F40), Fedora 39, Fedora 38, Fedora 37, openSUSE Tumbleweed, RHEL 9.2
nixuser F39 host on Intel NUC i7 NUC11PAH 1 x 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz Intel Corporation TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] (rev 01)
Pass pass
[1]
  1. ↑ Guests ~ Rawhide (F40), F39, F38, F37, Debian Bookworm, Debian Testing (Trixie), openSUSE Tumbleweed, RHEL 9.2
soren-s https://accounts.fedoraproject.org/user/soren-s/
Pass pass
[1]
  1. ↑ I did increase the video memory to 128 MB. Virtual Box on Fedora 38 Host. Could not copy or paste between host and vm with just selection + middle mouse wheel/button, but copy and paste works in both directions with selected text, Control-C, Control-V.

Standard Features[edit]

User Profile VM Lifecycle VM Sanpshots Change VM CDROM Host USB Hotplug Nested virt References
felipetg Workstation-Live-x86_64-39_Beta-1.1.iso nested in Fedora 38 6.5.5-200.fc38.x86_64
Pass pass
[1]
Pass pass
  1. ↑ Using virt-manager on both sides.
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