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Virtualization

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

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.


Libguestfs List

This section contains the discussion happening on the libguestfs list.

New Release libguestfs 1.0.59

Richard Jones announced[1] the release of Package-x-generic-16.pnglibguestfs 1.0.59.

New Features:

  • Support for Linux extended attributes.
  • Allow guestfish to be controlled remotely, so you can use one guestfish instance in a long-running shell script.
  • Support for reiserfs.
  • New function 'guestfs_zfile' -- 'file' inside compressed files.
  • New guestfish command 'reopen' -- reopen guestfish connection.
  • guestfish -x option (echo commands).
  • New function 'guestfs_version' to get the library version.

See previous release announcement for 1.0.57 in FWN#184[2] and be sure to see the project homepage[3] for extensive usage examples.

New Hypervisor Migration Tool virt-v2v

Matthew Booth posted[1] his "initial thoughts on the design for the v2v tool". This tool will be used to implement the planned Fedora 12 feature "Xen to KVM Migration"[2].

Virtualization Tools List

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


Libvirt List

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


Fedora-Xen List

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