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Virtualization

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

Contributing Writer: Dale Bewley

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.

New Upstream Xen Release

Pasi Kärkkäinen pointed [1] out new upstream Xen 3.3.2 and 3.4.1 releases. Gerd Hoffmann built Fedora packages[2] for testing.

Updated Dom0 Test Kernel

Michael Young posted[1] a test build kernel-2.6.31-0.1.2.52.rc6.xendom0.fc12[2] found in his repository.[3] "I have had trouble getting x86_64 kernels built over the last week or so to boot, but this one does work. I haven't tried i686."

Virtualization Tools List

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


Libguestfs List

This section contains the discussion happening on the libguestfs list.

New Release libguestfs 1.0.67

Richard Jones announced [1] the release of Package-x-generic-16.pnglibguestfs 1.0.67.

New Features:

  • SELinux support, for guests that use it
  • inotify support
  • Allow swapon/swapoff from a swap file
  • New commands to make hard and symbolic links, readlink
  • New commands to grep files
  • New commands: fallocate, file-architecture, realpath
  • 'file' command can now look in compressed files automatically

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.