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Virtualization

In this section, we cover discussion of Fedora virtualization technologies on the @fedora-virt list.

Contributing Writer: Dale Bewley

Fedora Virtualization List

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

Virt Status Report

Justin Forbes posted^[1] a Fedora virtualization status report. Justin pointed out F13 bugs^[2] now include Important and Pony classifications in addition to Blocker and Target.

↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-December/msg00056.html
↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_bugs

RHEL and Fedora Virtualization Feature Parity

Robert Day wondered how the virtualization features^[1] of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 compared to Fedora 12.

Daniel Berrange explained^[2] "The KVM based virtualization in RHEL-5.4 is not nearly so far behind Fedora as you might think. The libvirt mgmt stack in RHEL-5.4 was rebased to be near parity with Fedora 11, and KVM in RHEL-5.4 is also pretty close to that using what's best described as a hybrid of kvm-83 and kvm-84."

↑ http://www.redhat.com/virtualization/rhev/
↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-December/msg00040.html

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 {{Anchor|Virtualization}}
 == Virtualization ==
-In this section, we cover discussion of Fedora virtualization technologies on the @et-mgmnt-tools-list, @fedora-xen-list, @libvirt-list and @ovirt-devel-list lists.
+In this section, we cover discussion of Fedora virtualization technologies on the
+@fedora-virt list.
 Contributing Writer: [[User:Dale | Dale Bewley]]
-=== Enterprise Management Tools List ===
-This section contains the discussion happening on the
-[http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools et-mgmt-tools list]
-====  ====
-<references />
 === Fedora Virtualization List ===
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 [http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-virt fedora-virt list].
-==== F12 Feature: Host Information ====
+==== Virt Status Report ====
-[[RichardJones|Richard Jones]]
+[[JustinForbes|Justin Forbes]]
-posted<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-June/msg00123.html</ref>
+posted<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-December/msg00056.html</ref> a Fedora virtualization status report.
-an RFC for a feature<ref>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Hostinfo</ref> he's working on for [[Releases/12|Fedora 12]].
+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.
-The feature will "Allow a virtual machine to see information and statistics from the
-host operating system."
-For example, it will "Allow a virtual machine to look at host information (such as number of
-physical, not just virtual CPUs), and statistics like the load on the
-host."
-[[DanielBerrange|Daniel Berrange]]
-noted<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-June/msg00130.html</ref>
-that "a core goal of this
-hostinfo service is to avoid any use of networking. We don't want to
-presume that a guest has a NIC, nor that the host has a configured
-NIC on the same LAN as the guest." So this feature will make use of serial
-ports to pass queries and responses between the guest and the host.
 <references />
-==== libguestfs Super-minimized Appliance ====
+==== RHEL and Fedora Virtualization Feature Parity ====
-[[RichardJones|Richard Jones]]
+Robert Day wondered how the virtualization features<ref>http://www.redhat.com/virtualization/rhev/</ref> of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4
-created<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-June/msg00118.html</ref>
+compared to Fedora 12.
-a set of "very experimental" patches to {{package|libguestfs}}
-"which allow you to build a so-called 'supermin (super-minimized) appliance'."
-Within <code>libguestfs</code>, "The normal appliance is a self-contained Linux operating system, based
-on the Fedora/RHEL/CentOS Linux distro.  So it contains a complete
-copy of all the libraries and programs needed, like kernel, libc,
-bash, coreutils etc etc."
-"The supermin appliance removes the kernel and all the executable
-libraries and programs from the appliance.  That just leaves a
-skeleton of config files and some data files, which is obviously
-massively smaller than the normal appliance.  At runtime we rebuild
-the appliance on-the-fly from the libraries and programs on the host
-(eg. pulling in the real /lib/libc.so, the real /bin/bash etc.)"
-"The new appliance is a mere 500K, so <code>libguestfs</code> RPMs will be a lot
-smaller.  Of course that just means they will have many more
-dependencies, so the amount pulled down will be the same or greater."
+[[DanielBerrange|Daniel Berrange]]
+explained<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-December/msg00040.html</ref>
+"The KVM based virtualization in RHEL-5.4 is not nearly so far behind
+Fedora as you might think. The {{package|libvirt}} mgmt stack in RHEL-5.4 was
+rebased to be near parity with [[Releases/11|Fedora 11]], and KVM in RHEL-5.4 is
+also pretty close to that using what's best described as a hybrid of
+kvm-83 and kvm-84."
 <references />
-=== Fedora Xen List ===
-This section contains the discussion happening on the
-[http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen fedora-xen list].
 ====  ====
 <references />
-=== Libvirt List ===
-This section contains the discussion happening on the
-[http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list libvir-list].
-====  ====
-<references />
-=== oVirt Devel List ===
-This section contains the discussion happening on the
-[http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ovirt-devel ovirt-devel list].
 ====  ====
 <references />

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