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Virtualization

In this section, we cover discussion on the @et-mgmnt-tools-list, @fedora-xen-list, @libvirt-list and @ovirt-devel-list of Fedora virtualization technologies.

Contributing Writer: Dale Bewley

Enterprise Management Tools List

This section contains the discussion happening on the et-mgmt-tools list

Virt-mem Tools 0.2.8 Released

Richard W.M. Jones announced[1] the release of virt-mem 0.2.8. Virt-mem provides a set of dom0 or host tools which leverage libvirt to facilitate the inspection of domU or guest kernel information. Commands include 'virt-uname', 'virt-ps', and 'virt-dmesg' for example.

This latest version has been reworked to have direct access to basically any kernel structure. This will allow a more rapid fullfillment of outstanding feature requests such as memory usage information, network interface listings, etc.

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/et-mgmt-tools/2008-August/msg00033.html

Fedora Xen List

This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-xen list.

Installing Fedora 9 Guest on Centos 5 Fails

Kenneth Tanzer had trouble[1] installing a Fedora 9 paravirtualized guest on a CentOs 5 host. Eventually the install hung on installing openoffice.org-writer2latex. David Hláčik reported[2] a kernel panic during the same scenario. He stated it was due to the Fedora 9 kernel-xen having newer features which the CentOs dom0 did not support. However, Mark McLoughlin said[3] RHEL5/CentOS Xen is expected to be able to run pv_ops kernels, and a bug should be filed if this isn't the case.

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2008-August/msg00011.html

[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2008-August/msg00013.html

[3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2008-August/msg00018.html

Libvirt List

This section contains the discussion happening on the libvir-list.

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oVirt Devel List

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