User:Dale/Virtualization Release Notes Scratchpad/15

F15 Virtualization Release Notes
For the moment, I have copied the F13 Virtualization Release Notes for use in constructing the  F15 notes.

Features

 * All F15 Features
 * F15 Virt Features List


 * Spice support for virt-manager - 70%

Incomplete features:
 * Hostinfo / vhostmd - Percentage of completion: 20%
 * VirtAuthorization - Percentage of completion: 0%
 * XenPvopsDom0 - Percentage of completion: 30%
 * VirtVNCResourceTunnel - Percentage of completion: 20%
 * VirtAppliances - Percentage of completion: 10%

Virtual Machine Manager Support for SPICE
With Fedora 15, virt-manager has been updated to support Spice, the complete open source solution for interaction with virtualized desktop. It's now possible to create a virtual machine with Spice support without touching the command line, and benefiting all the Spice enhancements without hassles directly from virt-manager. Thanks to the spice-gtk library, you can also develop a client in Python or C, or with gobject-introspection bindings.

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virt-manager can currently manage QEMU VMs with VNC. It provides the ability to connect and display VNC (with various functionalities such as credentials, screenshot, send special keys, ssh tuneling, display scaling)

This feature is about supporting Spice at the same level, so that fedora users can benefits Spice goodness easily when creating VM (Features/Spice) and avoiding command lines.

Virtualization Technology Preview Repo
The Virtualization Preview Repository exists for people who would like to test the very latest virtualization related packages. This repo is intended primarily as an aid to testing and early experimentation. It is not intended for 'production' deployment.

For further details refer to:
 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_Preview_Repository

Xen Kernel Support
The  package in Fedora 15 supports booting as a guest domU, but will not function as a dom0 until such support is provided upstream.

The most recent Fedora release with dom0 support is Fedora 8.

Booting a Xen domU guest within a Fedora 15 host requires the KVM based. Xenner runs the guest kernel and a small Xen emulator together as a KVM guest.

For further details refer to:
 * http://sourceforge.net/projects/kvm
 * http://kraxel.fedorapeople.org/xenner/
 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvops
 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvopsDom0