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| == Virtualization == | | == Virtualization == |
| In this section, we cover discussion of Fedora virtualization technologies on the | | In this section, we cover discussion of Fedora virtualization technologies on the |
| @fedora-virt, @fedora-xen-list, @libguestfs, @libvirt-list, | | @fedora-virt list. |
| @virt-tools-list, and @ovirt-devel-list lists.
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| Contributing Writer: [[User:Dale | Dale Bewley]] | | Contributing Writer: [[User:Dale | Dale Bewley]] |
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| [http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-virt fedora-virt list]. | | [http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-virt fedora-virt list]. |
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| ==== Distributing I/O Load Among Guests ==== | | ==== Virt Status Report ==== |
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| asked<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-July/msg00183.html</ref>
| | posted<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-December/msg00056.html</ref> a Fedora virtualization status report. |
| "What is the best way to deal with I/O load when running several VMs on a
| | Justin pointed out F13 bugs<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_bugs</ref> now include Important and Pony classifications in addition to Blocker and Target. |
| physical machine with local or remote storage?" "What I'm primarily worried about is the case when several VMs cause disk I/O at the same time." "What is the best way to soften the impact of such a situation?"
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| [[PasiKärkkäinen|Pasi Kärkkäinen]]
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| suggested "If the IOS are not split evenly between VMs, you could use some tool like
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| dm-ioband<ref>http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/ioband/wiki/dm-ioband</ref> to make sure IOs are split fairly between VMs. Or then get faster disks. Single 15k rpm SAS disk will give you up to 350
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| IOPS, so it's 2-3x faster than 7200 rpm SATA."
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| [[RichardJones|Richard Jones]] | |
| concurred<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-July/msg00188.html</ref>
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| "For KVM, each VM isn't really any different from a host process, so
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| you have to deal with them the same way that you'd deal with having
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| lots of host processes doing I/O. So: lots of spindles, expensive I/O
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| hardware, etc."
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| === Virtualization Tools List ===
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| This section contains the discussion happening on the
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| [http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list virt-tools-list list].
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| The very newest releases of virt packages are available (for testing purposes only) in the [[Virtualization Preview Repository]] before they become generally available.
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| ==== New Release virt-manager 0.8.0 ====
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| [[ColeRobinson|Cole Robinson]]
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| <ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/virt-tools-list/2009-July/msg00054.html</ref> | |
| a new {{package|virt-manager}}<ref>http://virt-manager.org/</ref> release, version 0.8.0.
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| Virtual Machine Manager provides a graphical tool for administering virtual machines, using {{package|libvirt}} as the backend management API.
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| '''New features:'''
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| * New 'Clone VM' Wizard
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| * Improved UI, including an overhaul of the main 'manager' view
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| * System tray icon for easy VM access (start, stop, view console/details)
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| * Wizard for adding serial, parallel, and video devices to existing VMs.
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| * CPU pinning support (Michal Novotny)
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| * Ability to view and change VM security (sVirt) settings (Dan Walsh)
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| * Many bug fixes and improvements
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| ==== New Release virtinst 0.500.0 ==== | | ==== RHEL and Fedora Virtualization Feature Parity ==== |
| [[ColeRobinson|Cole Robinson]]
| | Robert Day wondered how the virtualization features<ref>http://www.redhat.com/virtualization/rhev/</ref> of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 |
| announced<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/virt-tools-list/2009-July/msg00055.html</ref>
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| a new {{package|python-virtinst}} release, version 0.500.0.
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| <code>virtinst</code> is a module that helps build and install <code>libvirt</code> based virtual machines. It currently supports <code>KVM</code>, <code>QEmu</code> and <code>Xen</code> virtual machines. Package includes several command line utilities, including <code>virt-install</code> (build and install new VMs) and <code>virt-clone</code> (clone an existing virtual machine). | | [[DanielBerrange|Daniel Berrange]] |
| | | explained<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-December/msg00040.html</ref> |
| '''New features:'''
| | "The KVM based virtualization in RHEL-5.4 is not nearly so far behind |
| * New virt-install device options --serial, --parallel, and --video
| | Fedora as you might think. The {{package|libvirt}} mgmt stack in RHEL-5.4 was |
| * Allow various auth types for libvirt connections (PolicyKit, SASL, ...)
| | rebased to be near parity with [[Releases/11|Fedora 11]], and KVM in RHEL-5.4 is |
| * New virt-clone option --auto-clone: generates all needed input.
| | also pretty close to that using what's best described as a hybrid of |
| * Option to specify network device model via virt-install --network (Guido Gunther)
| | kvm-83 and kvm-84." |
| * New virt-install option --virt-type for specifying hypervisor type (kvm, qemu). --accelerate is now the default behavior: To provision a plain qemu VM on a KVM enabled host, use '--virt-type qemu'
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| * OVF input support for virt-convert
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| * Many bug fixes and improvements
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| ==== New Release virt-viewer 0.2.0 ====
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| [[DanielBerrange|Daniel Berrange]]
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| announced<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/virt-tools-list/2009-July/msg00059.html</ref>
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| a new {{package|python-virtinst|virtinst}}<ref>http://virt-manager.org/</ref> release, version 0.2.0.
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| '''New features:'''
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| * Switch UI over to use Glade
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| * Support graphical dialog for VNC and libvirt authentication
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| * Resize window to match VNC desktop size where possible
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| * Scale down VNC desktop if it cannot fit in host desktop space
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| * Allow user to resize window to arbitrary size, scaling VNC
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| * Fix blocking of accelerators
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| * Allow automatic reconnect to a VM via --reconnect
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| * Use libvirt events to detect when VM changes state
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| * Wait for VM to appear if it does not exist
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| * Fix plugin build with newer xulrunner
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| * Port & build for Mingw32 target
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| === Libvirt List ===
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| This section contains the discussion happening on the
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| [http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list libvir-list].
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