Editing Test Day:2009-05-07 Virtualization Guest Installs

See [[Test_Day:2009-05-07_Virtualization]].

This test area is concerned with testing that different OSes install successfully as a KVM guest on a Fedora host.

== Prerequisites ==

== Tests ==

Install some of the following guest OSes:

# Fedora 9
# Fedora 10
# Fedora 11
# RHEL or CentOS 4
# RHEL or CentOS 5
# Windows XP
# Windows 2K3
# Windows Vista
# Windows 7 preview
# Debian 5
# Solaris/OpenSolaris
# FreeBSD
# SuSE/OpenSuSE

using virt-manager and/or virt-install.

If possible, use different install methods - e.g. DVD ISO, http, nfs etc. installs for Fedora/RHEL.

== Results ==

If you have problems with any of the tests, file a bug report in [https://bugzilla.redhat.com bugzilla].

Once you have completed an install, add its details to the tables below.

=== General comments ===

Put here what you experienced in general

{|
! Tester
! Comment
|-
| [[User:Rakoenig|Rainer Koenig]]
| When installing from a phsical CD/DVD in Virtual Machine Manager everything works fine. But the connection to the CD/DVD media is stored for the virtual machine, so if the media is removed you will experience an error on the next attempt to start this virtual machine. Solution: "Details" tab of that machine window and disconnect the CD drive here. See [[rhbug:473154|473154]]
|-
| [[User:Rakoenig|Rainer Koenig]]
| Strange effect observed, unfortunately only once: A guest installation seemed to hang and I tried to kill it with "Shutdown/Force off". The effect was that not only this guest was killed but all running guests on that host. So far not reproducable in my lab.
|}

=== Machine info ===

Enter some details on the machines you used to do the test:

{|
! Machine 
! Description
|-
| CELSIUS M470
| Entry workstation, Tylersburg chipset, Intel E5504 Quadcore CPU, 4 GB RAM, 500 GB harddisk, Fedora 11 (x86_64), [http://docs.ts.fujitsu.com/dl.aspx?id=f94620da-eccb-4faa-ab9a-a43ea52a909b  (Datasheet)], [http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_4f4ad121-b725-4446-b2bc-e85e49c4c608 Smolt]
|-
| HP-6720s
| Notebook HP Compaq 6720s, 3GB RAM
|}

=== Distribution specific test results ===

In 'Arch' column use

 - 32-on-32  for i686 guest on i686 host
 - 32-on-64  for i686 guest on x86_64 host
 - 64-on-64  for x86_64 guest on x86_64 host
 - 64-on-32  for x86_64 guest on i686 host (plain QEMU emulation, no KVM)

Please indicate whether using 'qemu' or 'kvm'. virt-manager defaults to kvm, except in 64-on-32). virt-install defaults to qemu
unles the --accelerate flag is given. You can verify by running 'virsh dumpxml GUEST' and looking at top level <domain type='qemu|kvm'> element

==== Fedora 9 results ====

{|
! Tester
! Machine
! Arch
! Result
! Comment
|-
| [[User:Rakoenig|Rainer Koenig]]
| CELSIUS M470
| 32-on-64
| success
| Installed via HTTP
|}

==== Fedora 10 results ====

{|
! Tester
! Machine
! Arch
! Result
! Comment
|-
| [[User:Rakoenig|Rainer Koenig]]
| CELSIUS M470
| 64-on-64
| success
| Installed via HTTP
|-
| [[User:pavann|Pavan Naregundi]]
| INTEL LS21
| 64-on-64
| success
| F10-Live CD boot check
|-
| [[User:jlaska|James Laska]]
| Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5420
| 32-on-64
| success
| Installing with <code>koan --virt</code>
|-
| [[User:jlaska|James Laska]]
| Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5420
| 64-on-64
| success
| Installing with <code>koan --virt</code>
|-
| [[User:jforbes|Justin Forbes]]
| Intel(R) Core 2 Q6600
| 64-on-64
| success
| Installing with virt-manager, lvm backed storage
|-
| [[User:jforbes|Justin Forbes]]
| Intel(R) Core i7 920
| 64-on-64
| success
| Installing with virt-manager, lvm backed storage
|}

==== Fedora 11 results ====

{|
! Tester
! Machine
! Arch
! Result
! Comment
|-
| [[User:Rakoenig|Rainer Koenig]]
| CELSIUS M470
| 64-on-64
| success
| Installed via PXE. On first shutdown after installation the guest locked up instead of turningg off, but this wasn't reproducable afterwards.
|-
| [[User:jlaska|James Laska]]
| Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5420
| 64-on-64
| success
| Installing with <code>koan --virt</code>
|-
| [[User:jlaska|James Laska]]
| Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5420
| 32-on-64
| success
| Installing with <code>koan --virt</code>
|-
| [[User:jforbes|Justin Forbes]]
| Intel(R) Core 2 Q6600
| 64-on-64
| success
| Installing with virt-manager, lvm backed storage
|-
| [[User:jforbes|Justin Forbes]]
| Intel(R) Core i7 920
| 64-on-64
| success
| Installing with virt-manager, lvm backed storage
|-
| [[User:jforbes|Justin Forbes]]
| Intel(R) Core i7 920
| 32-on-64
| success
| Installing with virt-manager, lvm backed storage
|}

==== RHEL4 or CentOS4 results ====

Please specify the precise RHEL4.x update used to install in comments

{|
! Tester
! Machine
! Arch
! Result
! Comment
|-
| [[User:Rakoenig|Rainer Koenig]]
| CELSIUS M470
| 64-on-64
| success
| Installed RHEL4.7ES from HTTP
|}

==== RHEL5 or CentOS5 results ====

Please specify the precise RHEL5.x update used to install in comments

{|
! Tester
! Machine
! Arch
! Result
! Comment
|-
| [[User:Rakoenig | Rainer Koenig]]
| CELSIUS M470
| 64-on-64
| Success
| Installed over HTTP with vit-manager
|-
| [[User:Santwana | Santwana Samantray]]
| INTEL LS21
| 64-on-64
| Success
| Installed RHEL5.3 with DVD ISO using virt-install
|}

==== Windows XP results ====

{|
! Tester
! Machine
! Arch
! Result
! Comment
|-
| [[User:Rakoenig|Rainer Koenig]]
| CELSIUS M470
| 32-on-64
| success
| Installed XP Professional SP2 from recovery CD
|}

==== Windows Vista results ====

{|
! Tester
! Machine
! Arch
! Result
! Comment
|-
| [[User:Rakoenig|Rainer Koenig]]
| CELSIUS M470
| 32-on-64
| success
| Installed Vista Home Premium SP1 from recovery CD
|}

==== Windows 2k3 results ====

{|
! Tester
! Machine
! Arch
! Result
! Comment
|-
| [[User:Santwana|Santwana Samantray]]
| INTEL LS21
| 32-on-64
| success
| Installed Windows2003 Server from ISO using virt-manager
|}

==== Windows 7 preview results ====

{|
! Tester
! Machine
! Arch
! Result
! Comment
|-
| [[User:Mcepl|Matej Cepl]]
| HP-6720s
| 32-on-64
| success
| Windows 7, build 7100 just works, even with [http://dfn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/kvm/NETKVM-20081229.iso virtio network drivers]
|-
| [[User:jforbes|Justin Forbes]]
| Intel(R) Core 2 Q6600
| 64-on-64
| success
| Installing with virt-manager, lvm backed storage
|}

==== Debian 5 results ====

{|
! Tester
! Machine
! Arch
! Result
! Comment
|-
| [[User:Rakoenig | Rainer Koenig]]
| CELSIUS M470
| 64-on-64
| style="background-color: yellow;" |workaround needed 
| Installed from Lenny netinstall CD. First attempt didn't work. So I filed [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499555 Bug 499555] in Bugzilla. 
|}

==== Solaris/OpenSolaris results ====

{|
! Tester
! Machine
! Arch
! Result
! Comment
|-
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|}

==== FreeBSD results ====

{|
! Tester
! Machine
! Arch
! Result
! Comment
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==== SUSE / openSUSE results ====

{|
! Tester
! Machine
! Arch
! Result
! Comment
|-
| [[User:Rakoenig|Rainer Koenig]]
| CELSIUS M470
| 64-on-64
| sucess
| openSUSE 11.1 installed via PXE 
|-
| [[User:Rakoenig|Rainer Koenig]]
| CELSIUS M470
| 64-on-64
| success
| SLES 11 installed via PXE
|}

==== Plan 9 ====

{|
! Tester
! Machine
! Arch
! Result
! Comment
|-
| [[User:Mcepl|Matej Cepl]]
| HP-6720s
| 32-on-64
| sucess
| [http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/download.html LiveCD], installed without a problem; only the operator is too dumb to use it ;-)
|-
|}

==== Minix ====

{|
! Tester
! Machine
! Arch
! Result
! Comment
|-
| [[User:Mcepl|Matej Cepl]]
| HP-6720s
| 32-on-64
| sucess with workaround
| [http://www.minix3.org/download/minix3_1_4_ide_r4220.iso Installation ISO image], installed; only system requires emulation of rtl8139, doesn't work with the default emulation
|-
|}

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