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🔗 Virtualization

In this section, we cover discussion on the @et-mgmnt-tools-list, @fedora-xen-list, @libvirt-list and @ovirt-devel-list of Fedora virtualization technologies.

Contributing Writer: Dale Bewley

🔗 Enterprise Management Tools List

This section contains the discussion happening on the et-mgmt-tools list

🔗 Virt-manager 0.6.0 Released

Cole Robinson announced[1] the release of virt-manager[2] 0.6.0. Features include:

  • Remote storage management and provisioning
  • Remote VM installation
  • Use Avahi to list libvirtd instances
  • Virtio and USB options when adding a disk device

and many more.

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/et-mgmt-tools/2008-September/msg00026.html

[2] http://www.virt-manager.org

🔗 Virtinst 0.400.0 Released

Cole Robinson announced[1] the release of virtinst 0.400.0. Features include:

  • New tool 'virt-convert'
  • New tool 'virt-pack'
  • Support for remote VM installation
  • Use virtio disk/net drivers if chosen os entry supports it

and many more.

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/et-mgmt-tools/2008-September/msg00027.html

🔗 Fedora Xen List

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

🔗 Laying the Groundwork for Xen Domain 0 Support

There are further developments in the state of Xen in upstream Linux (see FWN#137[3]). Pasi Kärkkäinen forwarded[1] a patch announcement[2] from xen-devel list. This set of seven patches begin to lay the groundwork for Xen domain 0 support.

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2008-September/msg00001.html

[2] http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2008-09/threads.html#00170

[3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue137#State_of_Xen_in_Upstream_Linux

Daniel P. Berrange said[4] these patches will make their way into rawhide when they are merged into the LKML[5] dev tree line used by rawhide at that time.

[4] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2008-September/msg00003.html

[5] http://lkml.org

🔗 Libvirt List

This section contains the discussion happening on the libvir-list.

🔗 Libvirt 0.4.5 Released

Daniel Veillard announced[1] the release of libvirt 0.4.5. In addition to a long changelog, the "main features are the improvement of OpenVZ and LXC, the uniform XML handling (and hence format) th[r]ough all drivers, improvements in devices handling for QEmu/KVM and storage pool source discovery."

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2008-September/msg00186.html

🔗 Segfault if no Qemu Emulator Passed

Cole Robinson patched[1] a bug that resulted in a segfault if a Qemu domain is defined without an emulator value. Daniel Berrange expressed[2] displeasure at letting this bug slip through and proposed a "brown paper bag" release. Daniel Veillard advised[3] against rushing the fix, and offered to push the patch to Fedora's build while other distributions could pick up the fix in a week or two when libvirt 0.4.6 would presumably be released.

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2008-September/msg00199.html

[2] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2008-September/msg00202.html

[3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2008-September/msg00206.html

Daniel Berrange pointed out code test coverage reports[4] on the build server, and highlighted the need to create a functional test rig for the mass of code that is simply not possible to unit test due to interactions with host OS state / functionality.

[4] http://builder.virt-manager.org/module-libvirt--devel.html

🔗 Ability to Nice KVM Processes

Henri Cook expressed[1] a desire to nice KVM processes, and proposed a means to pass arbitrary command string parameters to the process startup.

As mentioned[2] in FWN #141, Daniel Berrange pointed out[3] the goal of libvirt is consistent API representation across hypervisors. Fortunately there is a 'schedular parameters' API in libvirt. All that's needed is for someone to implement the schedular parameters driver API for KVM.

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2008-September/msg00209.html

[2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue141#Exposing_Unique_Hypervisor_Features

[3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2008-September/msg00210.html

🔗 oVirt Devel List

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

🔗 Other Virtualization News

This section contains virtualization news which may not have been directly discussed on the above mailing lists.

🔗 Red Hat Acquires Makers of KVM, Qumranet Inc.

Red Hat has acquired[1][2] Qumranet, Inc., the inventor and key maintainer of KVM.

[1] http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2008/qumranet.html

[2] http://www.redhat.com/promo/qumranet/