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= Dale Bewley =
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I'm vegan and I mountain bike a lot.
 
== Contact ==
* '''Email''': [[MailTo(dale AT bewley DOT net)] 
* '''IRC''': dbewley (not there often, sometimes #fedora-admin)
* '''GPG key''': [http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x4F6056DE 4F6056DE]
* '''Fedora Account''': dale
* '''Social Networks''': [http://mugshot.org/person?who=gV9XfBY8QkTAkY Mugshot]
* '''Blog''': http://tofu.org/drupal/blog/1
* '''Home''': http://dale.bewley.net
 
== Activities within Fedora ==
* All my [[Special:Contributions/Dale | wiki contributions]]
 
=== Release Notes Virtualization Beat ===
* I just volunteered to work on the [[Docs/Beats/Virtualization | Virtualization release notes]]. See below.
 
=== FWN Virtualization Beat ===
* I work on the [[FWN/Beats/Virtualization | FWN Virtualization Beat]].
* Past FWN Virtualization Beats:
[[FWN/Issue145#Virtualization | 145]],
[[FWN/Issue144#Virtualization | 144]],
[[FWN/Issue143#Virtualization | 143]],
[[FWN/Issue142#Virtualization | 142]],
[[FWN/Issue141#Virtualization | 141]],
140 n/a,
139 n/a,
[[FWN/Issue138#Virtualization | 138]],
[[FWN/Issue137#Virtualization | 137]]
 
== Notes To Self ==
 
=== Virtualization Release Notes ===
I'm gathering links to become oriented with the Fedora Docs Project and Virtualization features for F10.
 
'''Howto'''
* [[Docs/Beats/HowTo]]
* [[Docs/Beats#Fedora_Release_Notes_Beats]]
* Need to be done by Wed 2008-10-08 [http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-10/f-10-docs-tasks.html| Schedule]
 
'''Content'''
* [[Docs/Beats/Virtualization | F10 Notes]] and [http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9/en_US/sn-Virtualization.html F9 Notes] and [http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f8/en_US/sn-Virtualization.html F8 Notes]
* [[Features/VirtStorage]]
* [[Features/VirtRemoteInstall]]
* [[Virtualization_Quick_Start]]
* http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/ Richard Jones does cool stuff with <code>virt-*</code>.
 
'''Versions'''
{| class="wikitable" border="1"
|+ Virtualization Package Versions
|-
! Package      !! F9 Release !! F9 Updates (20081003) !! Rawhide !! F10 Release !! Rel Notes
|-
| kvm          || 65-1      || 65-9      || 74-4      || || http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/ChangeLog
|-
| libvirt      || 0.4.2-1    || 0.4.6-2  || 0.4.6-3    || || http://www.libvirt.org/news.html
|-
| python-virtinst||0.300.3-5 || 0.300.3-7 || 0.400.0-1  || ||
|-
| virt-df      || n/a        || 2.1.1-8  || 2.1.3-2    || || http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/
|-
| virt-manager || 0.5.4-3    || 0.5.4-4  || 0.6.0-1    || || http://virt-manager.et.redhat.com/download.html
|-
| virt-mem    || n/a        || n/a      || 0.6.0-1    || || http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-mem/faq.html alpha qaulity - 32bit QEMU and KVM only
|-
| virt-top    || 0.4.1.1-1  || 1.0.1-4  || 1.0.1-2    || || http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top/ChangeLog.txt
|-
| virt-viewer  || 0.0.3-1    || n/a      || 0.0.3-3    || ||
|-
| xen          || 3.2.0-10  || 3.2.0-15  || 3.3.0-1    || || http://www.xen.org/download/
|-
| xenner      || 0.29-2    || 0.41-1    || 0.46-1    || || http://cvs.bytesex.org/xenner.html
|}
 
==== Other Improvements ====
Need to pick improvements from release notes above.
 
===== virt-manager Updated to 0.400.0 =====
https://www.redhat.com/archives/et-mgmt-tools/2008-September/msg00027.html
New features:
* New tool 'virt-convert': Allows converting between different types of virt configuration files. Currently only supports vmx -> virt-image.
* New tool 'virt-pack': Converts virt-image xml format to vmx and packs in a tar.gz. (Note this will likely be merged with virt-convert in the future).
* virt-install: Support for remote VM installation. Can use install media and disk images on remote host if shared via libvirt. Allows provisioning storage on remote pools.
* virt-install new options:
      new --wait option, allows putting a hard time limit on installs.
      new --sound option, to create VM with soundcard emulation.
      new --disk option, allows specifying media as a path, storage volume, or
        a pool to provision storage on, device type, and several other options.
        Deprecates --file, --size, --nonsparse.
      new --prompt option. Input prompting is no longer the default, this
        option turns it back on.
* virt-install: allow setting cpu pinning information for qemu/kvm VMs.
* virt-install: numa support via --cpuset=auto option.
* virt-image: --replace option to overwrite existing VM image file.
* virt-image: support multiple network interfaces in virt-image format.
* use virtio disk/net drivers if chosen os entry supports it (Fedora 9/10, Ubuntu Hardy).
* Numerous bug fixes and minor improvements.
 
 
===== libvirt Updated to 0.4.6 =====
New features and improvments since 0.4.2:
* Enhanced OpenVZ support
* Enhanced Linux containers (LXC) support
* Storage pools API
* Improved iSCSI support
* USB device passthrough for QEmu and KVM
* Sound, serial, and parallel device support for QEmu and Xen
* Support for NUMA and vCPU pinning in QEmu
* Unified XML domain and network parsing for all virtualization drivers
 
For further details see: http://www.libvirt.org/news.html
 
===== Xen Updated to 3.3.0 =====
This is a major new release with a host of new features including:
* Power management (P & C states) in the hypervisor
* HVM emulation domains ('qemu-on-minios') for better scalability, performance and security
* PVGrub: boot PV kernels using real GRUB inside the PV domain
* Better PV performance: domain lock removed from pagetable-update paths
* Shadow3: optimisations to make this the best shadow pagetable algorithm yet, making HVM performance better than ever
* Hardware Assisted Paging enhancements: 2MB page support for better TLB locality
* CPUID feature levelling: allows safe domain migration across systems with different CPU models.
* PVSCSI drivers for SCSI access direct into PV guests
* HVM framebuffer optimisations: scan for framebuffer updates more efficiently
* Device passthrough enhancements
* Full x86 real-mode emulation for HVM guests on Intel VT: supports a much wider range of legacy guest OSes
* New qemu merge with upstream development
* Many other changes in both x86 and IA64 ports
 
== Virtualization Release Notes Scratch Space ==
 
 
 
 
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