Fedora

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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

Interviews

Mel Chua recently interviewed^[1] Fedora virtualization luminaries Richard Jones, David Lutterkort, and Mark McLoughlin. Topics included:

• Richard Jones on guestfish and friends (libguestds and libvirt)
• Mark McLoughlin on virtual upgrades to your virtual machine
• David Lutterkort on "Network scripts: complex no more!"
• How to try out virtualization
• From etherboot to gPXE
• qcow2: now with better performance!
• Virtualization in Fedora: a historical retrospective
• What's Next? Virtualization in F13 and beyond
• When they're not hacking...

1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_improvements_in_Fedora_12

Fedora Virtualization List

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

Fedora Virtualization Status

Mark McLoughlin ^[1]

1. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-November/msg00045.html

Rawvirt Rawhide Virtualization for Fedora 12

Justin Forbes announced^[1] "As was done for Fedora 11 users, the tradition continues, only the locations have changed.

We've set up a repository for people running Fedora 12 who would like to test the rawhide/F13 virt packages. To use it, do e.g."

  $> cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-virt-preview.repo << EOF
  [rawvirt]
  name=Virtualization Rawhide for Fedora 12
  baseurl=http://jforbes.fedorapeople.org/virt-preview/f12/$basearch/
  enabled=1
  gpgcheck=0
  EOF
  $> yum update

The Virtualization Preview Repository^[2] is for people who would like to test the very latest virtualization related packages. This repository is intended primarily as an aid to testing / early experimentation. It is not intended for 'production' deployment.

1. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-November/msg00041.html
2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_Preview_Repository

Fedora Xen List

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

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.

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.