User:Dale/Virtualization Release Notes Scratchpad/14

F14 Virtualization Release Notes
For the moment, I have copied the F13 Virtualization Release Notes for use in constructing the  F14 notes.

Features

 * All F14 Features
 * F14 Virt Features List


 * Xen to KVM migration Provide nearly effortless automatic translation of Xen virtual machines to KVM virtual machines. - 80%
 * Features/EC2 - Could this be considered a virt feature?

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

Support for Elastic Computing Cluoud
Fedora 14 is now available on the Amazon EC2 cloud. Documentation is available at to assist users with launching Fedora EC2 images.

For more information, refer to:
 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/EC2

Spice Framework for Desktop Virtualization
The Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE) is used for client-server communication and enhances interaction with virtual machine guests. Spice adds a QXL display device to QEMU and provides drivers for this device for both X and Windows.

The Spice framework for desktop virtualization aims to provide a complete open source solution for interaction with virtualized desktops.

For more information, refer to:
 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Spice

Xen to KVM Migration
virt-v2v is a command line tool that enables Xen domUs (ie. guests) to be migrated to use KVM. Users with Xen guests can try out KVM. Users can also migrate from Xen to KVM for its enhanced ease of use.

For more information, refer to:
 * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Xen_to_KVM_migration

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 14 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 14 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