Editing Test Day:2012-04-12 Virtualization Test Day

= Virtualization Test Day =

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| name = Fedora Test Days
| image = [[File:Echo-testing-48px.png|link=QA/Fedora_16_test_days]]
| caption = Virtualization Test Day
| date = 2012-04-12
| time = all day
| website = [[QA/Fedora_17_test_days]]
| irc = [irc://irc.freenode.net/#fedora-test-day #fedora-test-day] ([http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=fedora-test-day webirc])
| fedora_mailing_list = virt
}}

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== What to test? ==

Today's installment of Fedora Test Day will focus on [[Virtualization]] improvements in Fedora 17.  There is a '''large''' list of virtualization improvements coming in Fedora.  To simplify things, testing will be divided up into a number of sections.

== Who's available ==

The following cast of characters will be available testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion ...
* Development / general help - [[User:berrange|Daniel Berrange]] (danpb on FreeNode)
* Development / general help - [[User:rjones|Richard W.M. Jones]] (rwmjones on FreeNode)
* Development / general help - [[User:crobinso|Cole Robinson]] (crobinso on FreeNode)

== Known issues ==

Before you begin testing, there are a few known bugs that should be taken into account

* firewalld service running on an F17 host can break guest network access if using libvirt virtual networks. work around is to disable or remove firewalld: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796479
* restarting libvirtd (which is also done on a package update) will forcibly stop all kvm guests and virtual networks: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805942
* running libvirtd inside a guest can break that guests networking. you can work around this by using 'sudo virsh net-edit default' inside the VM, and change all instances of 192.168.122 to 192.168.123 and restarting the VM: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=802475

== What's needed to test ==
* A fully updated Fedora 17 Beta machine.  See instructions below.
* Hardware virtualization support (e.g. Intel VT or AMD-V) (see [[How_to_debug_Virtualization_problems#Is_My_Guest_Using_KVM.3F Is My Guest Using KVM?]]).  If unavailable, you can still help with testing QEMU support.
* At least one guest image installed before the test day (suggested reading - [[Virtualization_Quick_Start]])
* Up to 10-20Gb free disk space. Guest images take up a lot of space.

== Areas to test ==

=== News tests and features ===

Below are the some of the virt features accepted for F17 which should each have test notes documented:

* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/virtio-scsi
** [[QA:Testcase_Virtualization_Virtio_SCSI_Install]]
** [[QA:Testcase_Virtualization_Virtio_SCSI_Hotplug]]

Below are some other F17 virt features which are lacking clear test instructions:

* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KVM_Guest_PMU (FIXME: no test instructions)
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Open_vSwitch (FIXME: no test instructions)
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtSandbox (Ignore, pending updated RPMs in Fedora)

Other important / general test plans to follow include:

* [[Test Day:2012-04-12 libguestfs | libguestfs]] <br>&mdash; libguestfs, image inspection, virt tools, V2V, P2V (you will need at least one guest to test this)
* [[Test_Day:2012-04-12_Virtualization_Test_Day-GuestOS | GuestOS compatibility]] <br>&mdash; test installation of as many different guest operating system as as possible. (You will need a KVM bare metal host & lots of disk space)

=== Previous test cases ===

Some test cases used in previous test days. Still useful to test for regressions!

==== General Virt ====

* [[QA:Testcase_Virtualization_URL_Guest_Install]]
* [[QA:Testcase_Virtualization_CDROM_Guest_Install]]
* [[QA:Testcase_Virtualization_Virt_Manager_Lifecycle]]
* [[QA:Testcase_Virtualization_Guest_pxeBoot]]
* [[QA:Testcase Live Migration using libvirt/virsh]]
* [[QA:Testcase Offline (paused) Migration using libvirt/virsh]]

==== Spice ====

* [[QA:Testcase Virtualization Check SPICE password support]]
* [[QA:Testcase Virtualization Manually set spice listening port with TLS port set]]
* [[QA:Testcase Virtualization Setting up a VM with Spice]]
* [[QA:Testcase Virtualization Spice listen on all public network interfaces]]

==== libvirt ====

* [[QA:Testcase Virtualization libvirt create a logical pool]]
* [[QA:Testcase Virtualization libvirt save and restore with svirt]]
* [[QA:Testcase Virtualization libvirt set guest memory]]

==== Hotplug ====

* [[QA:Testcase Virtualization Attach/Detach a SCSI device to guest]]
* [[QA:Testcase Virtualization Hotplug USB device to guest]]
* [[QA:Testcase_Virtualization_NIC_Hotplug_virsh_attach_detach]]

[[Category:Fedora 17 Test Days]]