Virtualization
In this section, we cover discussion on the @et-mgmnt-tools-list, @fedora-xen-list, @libvirt-list and @ovirt-devel-list of Fedora virtualization technologies.
Contributing Writer: Dale Bewley
Fedora Virtualization List
This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-virt list.
Fedora Virtualization Status Report
Mark McLoughlin's status report[1] this week reminds us that the final development freeze[2] for Fedora 11 is coming up on April 14, 2009, and "there's a huge pile of bug-fixing and polish work to do".
"If you're looking to help out, there's no better place to start than the F11VirtBlocker[3] and F11VirtTarget[4] tracker bugs."
Read on for more coverage of virtualization developments in the past week.
- ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-April/msg00006.html
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/DevelFreezePolicy
- ↑ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=F11VirtBlocker&hide_resolved=1
- ↑ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=F11VirtTarget&hide_resolved=1
Using kvm-autotest to test Fedora KVM
Mark McLoughlin
explained[1]
"upstream KVM developers are working hard on a suite of regression tests for KVM. It would be hugely helpful if people could run
kvm-autotest[2]
on their own machines to try and catch as many KVM issues as possible."
Mark also provided
a howto[3].
Fedora Xen List
This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-xen list.
Experimental Dom0 Kernel Update
Michael Young announced[1] his repository[2] "is up to kernel 2.6.29-1.2.18.fc11. This one is based on push2/xen/dom0/master[3] rather than xen/dom0/hackery which should be closer to what is proposed for the 2.6.30 merge. It also has CONFIG_HIGHPTE=n (for x86), but my attempts to add squashfs 3 in addition to squashfs 4 didn't work as it seems you can't build both."
Libvirt List
This section contains the discussion happening on the libvir-list.
New Release libvirt 0.6.2
Daniel Veillard
announced[1]
a new 
libvirt
"This is mostly a bug fix release, though it also includes a few new features and some improvements:"
New features:
- support SASL auth for VNC server (Daniel Berrange)
- memory ballooning in QEMU (Daniel Berrange)
- SCSI HBA storage pool support (Dave Allan)
- PCI passthrough in Xen driver (Daniel Berrange)
Improvements:
- get CPU usage info for LXC (Ryota Ozaki)
- fix domain RNG to add ac97 and tests (Pritesh Kothari)
- OpenVZ support for non-template filesystem root (Florian Vichot)
- improve arch capabilities generation (Daniel Berrange)
- modularization of spec file (Ryota Ozaki)
- better error reports in SEXPR generation (Daniel Berrange)
- support for vifname parameter in VIF config (Daniel Berrange)
- localtime handling for new xen (Daniel Berrange)
- error reporting/ verification of security labels (Dan Walsh)
- add --console arg for create and start virsh commands (Daniel Berrange)
- refresh volume alloc/capacity when dumping XML (Cole Robinson)
This release comes one month after the release of 0.6.1[2].
Daniel Veillard referred[3] to the scheduling conversation last week (FWN#169[4]) when reitterating the plan for a feature freeze around April 17th and a release of 0.6.3 around April 24th.
"Plannned so far for 0.6.3 are:
- API for physical host interface
- the VirtualBox driver if in shape and in time
but that's not an exhaustive list and there is a couple of drivers submitted I need to look at (OpenNebula for example)."