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]
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.