FWN/Beats/Virtualization

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 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...

Fedora Virtualization List

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

Fedora Virtualization Status Report

The latest virt status report from Mark McLoughlin details the status of the latest virtualization related bugs, and relayes behind the scenes drama of "a couple of fire-drills with last-minute serious blocker bugs" as Fedora 12 was about to go out the door.

Rawvirt Rawhide Virtualization for Fedora 12

Justin Forbes announced "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 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.

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.

New Release libvirt 0.7.4

Daniel Veillard announced a new libvirt release, version 0.7.4.

New features:

Improvements:

oVirt Devel List

This section contains the discussion happening on the ovirt-devel list.