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| == Virtualization == | | == Virtualization == |
| In this section, we cover discussion on the @et-mgmnt-tools-list, @fedora-xen-list, and @libvirt-list of Fedora virtualization technologies. | | In this section, we cover discussion of Fedora virtualization technologies on the |
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| Contributing Writer: [[User:Dale | Dale Bewley]] | | Contributing Writer: [[User:Dale | Dale Bewley]] |
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| === Fedora Virtualization List === | | === Fedora Virtualization List === |
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| [http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-virt fedora-virt list]. | | [http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-virt fedora-virt list]. |
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| ==== New Release libguestfs 1.0.10 ==== | | ==== Virt Status Report ==== |
| [[RichardJones|Richard Jones]] | | [[JustinForbes|Justin Forbes]] |
| announced<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-April/msg00220.html</ref> release 1.0.10 of {{package|libguestfs}}<ref>http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/</ref>.
| | posted<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-December/msg00056.html</ref> a Fedora virtualization status report. |
| | | Justin pointed out F13 bugs<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_bugs</ref> now include Important and Pony classifications in addition to Blocker and Target. |
| Born only a couple of weeks ago(FWN#171<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue171#Guest_Configuration_with_augeas_and_libguestfs</ref>), <code>libguestfs</code> has progressed very far very fast.
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| The package is currently being reviewed<ref>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=495564</ref> for inclusion the Fedora repo.
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| "<code>libguestfs</code> is a library for accessing and modifying guest disk images. Amongst the things this is good for: making batch configuration changes to guests, getting disk used/free statistics (see also: {{package|virt-df}}), migrating between virtualization systems (see also: virt-p2v), performing partial backups, performing partial guest clones, cloning guests and changing registry/UUID/hostname info, and much else besides."
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| '''Features in 1.0.10 include:'''
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| * bindings for: C, C++, Perl, Python, OCaml, Ruby, Java and shell scripting
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| * KVM support
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| * QEMU binary is completely configurable at compile & runtime
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| * ext4 support
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| * support for uploading and downloading arbitrary-sized files
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| * support for uploading and downloading tar and tar.gz content
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| * support for querying size of block devices, setting r/o
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| * support for reading ext2/3 superblocks
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| * stat, lstat, statvfs commands
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| * commands to mount filesystems read-only
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| * run arbitrary commands from the guest
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| * file(1) command
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| * readline in guestfish with history and tab completion
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| * guestfish 'edit' command
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| * big documentation improvements, including more on the internals
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| * pkgconfig file
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| Richard posted some example uses<ref>http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/recipes.html</ref>
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| of the <code>libguestfs</code> command line tool called <code>guestfish</code>.
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| | ==== RHEL and Fedora Virtualization Feature Parity ==== |
| | Robert Day wondered how the virtualization features<ref>http://www.redhat.com/virtualization/rhev/</ref> of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 |
| | compared to Fedora 12. |
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| ==== Only libvirt Bug Fixes in updates-testing ====
| | explained<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-December/msg00040.html</ref> |
| [[DanielBerrange|Daniel Berrange]] described | | "The KVM based virtualization in RHEL-5.4 is not nearly so far behind |
| "introducing major new features into the stable release stream" as a problem<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue171#Virtualization_Technology_Preview_Repo</ref> and switch to "a pretty strong bugfix only policy..."
| | Fedora as you might think. The {{package|libvirt}} mgmt stack in RHEL-5.4 was |
| [[MarkMcLoughlin|Mark McLoughlin]]
| | rebased to be near parity with [[Releases/11|Fedora 11]], and KVM in RHEL-5.4 is |
| announced<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-April/msg00136.html</ref>
| | also pretty close to that using what's best described as a hybrid of |
| that this has now happened:
| | kvm-83 and kvm-84." |
| * {{package|libvirt}} 0.6.1 has been unpushed from F9 and F10 updates-testing
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| * The latest version available in F9 and F10 updates is 0.5.1
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| * We do not expect to push new versions to F9 and F10, only bug fix updates for 0.5.1
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| The rapid speed of Fedora releases every 6 months
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| can not keep up with the lightning fast <code>libvirt</code> releases happening every month<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue169#More_Formal_libvirt_Release_Scheduling</ref>. To gain access to the new features and technologies offered by these new releases, Mark offers
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| "We are still planning on setting up a 'preview' repository where
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| the latest versions of virt packages from rawhide will be available
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| to Fedora stable release users".
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| In the meantime [[DanielVeillard|Daniel Veillard]]
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| posts<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-April/msg00283.html</ref>
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| a src rpm with each release<ref>ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/</ref> and | |
| "I also build binaries rpms for the flavour of the day I run on
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| my workstation which is why you will find signed binaries too for
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| F9 x86_64".
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| ==== Fedora Virtualization Status Report ====
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| [[MarkMcLoughlin|Mark McLoughlin]]
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| provided<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-April/msg00170.html</ref>
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| another excellent round up of the latest bugs and developments with
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| virtualization in Fedora.
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| === Fedora Xen List === | | ==== ==== |
| This section contains the discussion happening on the
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| [http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen fedora-xen list].
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| ==== Dom0 Kernel Not Before 2.6.31 ====
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| The upstream Xen dom0 work done by Jeremy Fitzhardinge was recently cleaned up and
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| reorganized<ref>http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-04/msg00955.html</ref>
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| into two branches:
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| * Known-working - [http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git;a=shortlog;h=xen-tip/master xen-tip/master]
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| * Bleeding edge - [http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git;a=shortlog;h=xen-tip/next xen-tip/next]
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| [[MichaelYoung|Michael Young]]
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| built<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2009-April/msg00012.html</ref>
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| a new experimental dom0 kernel version 2.6.30-0.1.2.21.rc3 "based on the Fedora devel kernel branch and [the] xen-tip/next branch from the pvops kernel repository."
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| An RPM of this kernel may be found in Michael's yum repo<ref>http://fedorapeople.org/~myoung/dom0/</ref>.
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| Michael also drew attention to the fact that "very few xen patches made it into 2.6.30, just bugfixes and tidy ups, so we are waiting at least until 2.6.31<ref>http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-04/msg00961.html</ref> for mainline dom0 support."
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| === Libvirt List ===
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| This section contains the discussion happening on the
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| [http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list libvir-list].
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| ==== New Release libvirt 0.6.3 ====
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| [[DanielVeillard|Daniel Veillard]]
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| announced<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-April/msg00504.html</ref>
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| a new {{package|libvirt}} release, version 0.6.3.
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| "The main points are the VirtualBox driver and a number of bug fixes."
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| Read the post for details of other changes.
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| '''New features:'''
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| * VirtualBox driver support (Pritesh Kothari)
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| * virt-xml-validate new command (Daniel Berrange)
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| '''Improvements:'''
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| * add SCSI storage rescan (David Allan)
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| * rootless LXC containers support improvements (Serge Hallyn)
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| * getHostname support for LXC (Dan Smith)
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| * cleanup and logging output of some domain functions (Guido Gunther)
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| * drop pool lock when allocating volumes (Cole Robinson)
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| * LXC handle kernel without CLONE_NEWUSER support (Serge Hallyn)
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| * cpu pinning on defined Xen domains (Takahashi Tomohiro)
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| * dynamic bridge names support (Soren Hansen)
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| * LXC use of private /dev/pts when available (Daniel Berrange)
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| * virNodeDeviceCreateXML and virNodeDeviceDestroy entry points (Dave Allan)
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| [[DanielVeillard|Daniel Veillard]]
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| followed the announcement with a roadmap
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| <ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-April/msg00508.html</ref>
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| suggesting "a new release around May 25, which would mean entering code
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| feature freeze around May 18".
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| Version 0.6.2 was released April 3rd (FWN#170<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue170#New_Release_libvirt_0.6.2</ref>).
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| ==== KVM Migration Support in F11 ====
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| Abhishek Jha
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| <ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-April/msg00501.html</ref>
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| "needed to know if libvirt supports migration via the QEMU/KVM driver. (
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| virDomainMigrate)".
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| [[DanielBerrange|Daniel Berrange]]
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| answered<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-April/msg00509.html</ref>
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| "Yes it is supported in <code>KVM</code> >= 79, or <code>QEMU</code> >= 0.10.0 and <code>libvirt</code> 0.6.0
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| IIRC." With the latest version of {{package|libvirt}} available for Fedora 10
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| being 0.5.1, this means migration of KVM guests will not be supported in Fedora until F11 comes out next month.<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/11/Schedule</ref>
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| "ALso note that successful migration depends on the hardware config of
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| your guest. In theory any config should work, but in practice there
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| have been bugs in the device state save/restore process of various
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| types of device. So test your particular VM config successfully
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| migrates before relying on it in production."
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