Virtualization
In this section, we cover discussion of Fedora virtualization technologies on the @fedora-virt, @fedora-xen-list, and @libvirt-list lists.
Contributing Writer: Dale Bewley
Fedora Virtualization List
This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-virt list.
Bridges
Andrés García asked[1]
New Release libguestfs 1.0.78
Richard Jones announced[1]
version 1.0.78 of 
libguestfs
New Features:
- FUSE support so you can mount guest filesystems in the host [3]
- Support for btrfs, gfs, gfs2, hfs, hfs+, nilfs2, jfs, reiserfs, xfs[4]
- Support for huge (multi-exabyte) sparse virtual disks[5]
- New partitioning API, supports GPT and more[6]
- New tools:
- Windows Registry support, tools and library[11] [12]
- OCaml bindings for
virt-inspector - RELAX NG schema for
virt-inspector - New APIs:
utimens,vfs_type,truncate,truncate_size,lchown,lstatlist,lxattrlist,readlinklist,case_sensitive_path,find0,mkfs_b,mke2journal,and more ... - New program: OCaml viewer[13]
- Allow stdout to be redirected when running guestfish remotely (Matt Booth).
- Remove requirement for vmchannel support in qemu (horray!) and the tricky main loop code.
- ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/virt-tools-list/2009-November/msg00023.html
- ↑ http://libguestfs.org/
- ↑ http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/browsing-guests-using-fuse/
- ↑ http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/filesystem-metadata-overhead/
- ↑ http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/petabytes-exabytes-why-not/
- ↑ http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#guestfs_part_add
- ↑ http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/new-tool-virt-ls/
- ↑ http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/new-tool-virt-tar/
- ↑ http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/virt-edit/
- ↑ http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/virt-rescue/
- ↑ http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/virt-win-reg-get-at-the-windows-registry-in-your-windows-guests/
- ↑ http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/libhivex-windows-registry-hive-extractor-library/
- ↑ http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/graphical-virt-df/
Fedora Xen List
This section contains the discussion happening on the
fedora-xen list.
No Xen dom0 in Fedora 12 Hopefully 13
Zhang Enming
was disappointed[1] to learn[2] the pv_ops dom0 support[3] for hosting Xen guests, dropped in Fedora 9, is still not present in Fedora 12.
Zhang referenced numerous videos documenting success in creating "a fully working Xen pv-ops dom0 Fedora 11 host operating system."
While there are experimental patches which may be applied[4] [5] to the kernel to enable support for dom0, they are not yet in the upstream kernel which forms the basis the Fedora kernel package.
It was decided[6] two years ago this month that
Fedora "simply cannot spend more time forward porting Xen kernels" and
"the plan is to re-focus 100% of all Xen kernel efforts onto paravirt_ops."
See FWN#137.[7]
Pasi Kärkkäinen
noted[8]
"pv_ops dom0 kernel has only recently started working for many/most
people, so it was too late for F12 release" and
"There are still some missing features, most notably missing blktap2 support
for tap:aio: file-based images."
- ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2009-November/msg00019.html
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Virtualization
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvopsDom0
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue190#Dom0_Kernel_Status
- ↑ http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps
- ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2007-November/msg00106.html
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue137#kernel-xen_is_Dead
- ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2009-November/msg00020.html
Libvirt List
This section contains the discussion happening on the
libvir-list.