FWN/Beats/Virtualization

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

Fedora Virtualization List

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

bzImage Dom0 Support in Rawhide Xen

Pasi Kärkkäinen announced the lastest xen builds in Rawhide support bzImage compressed dom0 kernels. Xen previously only supported zImage compressed kernels. This development was one of the preqequisite work items for the Xen pvops Dom0 feature.

This good news was tempered by the fact that there is still no dom0 capable kernel in Rawhide. However, such a kernel can be built for testing. Gerd Hoffmann reports success doing just that. Such kernels are not yet stable enough for use.

See coverage of the @fedora-xen list later in this issue for news of an available dom0 kernel RPM.

Fedora Virt Status Update

Mark McLoughlin composed another informative weekly update on the status of virtualization development in Fedora. Some highlights included:

• A pvmmu problem casues some guest installs on an F11 Alpha host to oops during heavy network activity (RHBZ #480822)
• Work has begun on Fedora 11 virtualization release notes.
• The 0.6.0 release of libvirt was not completely without problems.
• All Fedora 11 virtualization features can be found all together.
• The KVM/QEmu merge project has settled on a naming scheme.
• KVM PCI device assignment continues to have issues. The "core of the problem is that devices must be reset before being assigned if they have been previously used in the host."
• The addition of bzImage loading support to the Xen hypervisor is enabling users to build test Dom0 kernels.
• A detailed of accounting reveals the bug count going from 191 to 192.

Merging KVM and QEmu Packages

A feature in the works for Fedora 11 is a merge of the kvm package with the qemu package. Glauber Costa recently took the first step in this process by creating a test build and starting a very long thread on naming of all the subpackages which will soon make up QEmu.

Fedora Xen List

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

Test Dom0 Xen Kernel RPM Available

M A Young built a dom0 capable kernel RPM. It's suitable only for testing; "use it very much at your own risk".

Libvirt List

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

oVirt Devel List

This section contains the discussion happening on the ovirt-devel list.