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Virtualization

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


Fedora Xen List

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


Libvirt List

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

Status and Plans for Next Release

Daniel Veillard recapped[1] the release plans. A "feature freeze on the 22nd" and a "target for next release is Friday 29th".

Work will continue on "reviewing and adding OpenNebula[2]/Power[3] drivers and try to get the NPIV[4], netcf[5] and secure migration patches in. It's likely not everything will make the release cut but we can try !"

"So far we have mostly a lot of bug fixes and VirtualBox[6] driver updates commited since 0.6.3."

  1. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-May/msg00220.html
  2. ↑ http://www.opennebula.org/
  3. ↑ http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/virtualization/
  4. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPIV
  5. ↑ https://fedorahosted.org/netcf/
  6. ↑ http://www.virtualbox.org/

Support for Multi-headed Guests

Patches from Pritesh Kothari adding support for multiple graphics devices have been committed[1]

  1. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-May/msg00136.html

Virtual Box Support Increases

Pritesh Kothari contributed patches improving the VirtualBox[1] driver submitted[2] just last month.

  • "support for vrdp/sdl/gui"[3]
  • "support for "Host only" and "Internal" networks"[4]
  1. ↑ http://www.virtualbox.org/
  2. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-April/msg00232.html
  3. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-May/msg00157.html
  4. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-May/msg00115.html

PCI Passthrough Support

Aaron Clausen had[1] trouble using PCI passthrough[2].

Daniel Berrange noted[3] there aren't any docs on the [libvirt] website yet, but Mark McLoughlin "just wrote up some notes[4] for the Fedora 11 virt test" day.

Daniel also noted "you need a machine supporting VT-D[5]" (or IOMMU[6] in general) "for this work - the vast majority of hosts with fullvirt support do *not* yet support VT-D passthrough, but perhaps you're lucky ..."

  1. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-May/msg00122.html
  2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KVM_PCI_Device_Assignment
  3. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-May/msg00126.html
  4. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-05-07_Virtualization_KVM_PCI_Device_Assignment
  5. ↑ http://www.intel.com/technology/itj/2006/v10i3/2-io/1-abstract.htm
  6. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOMMU
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