Revision as of 14:55, 10 April 2012

Guest OS Support Results

This page provides the results of testing guest operating systems on a Fedora 17 KVM host.

There are 4 test cases to be evaluated against each guest OS:

Test case 1: ISO media inspection - whether virt-inspector can find info for the ISO install media
Test case 2: Installation - verify that the installer runs to completion without unexpected problems
Test case 3: Post-install first boot - verify the resulting installed image can successfully boot up again
Test case 4: Disk image inspection - whether virt-inspect can find info for the resulting installed OS disk image

Fedora

OS Release	Host Arch	Guest Arch	1: ISO media inspect	2: Installation	3: Post-install first boot	4: Disk image inspect
17	x86_64	i686	none	none	none	none
17	x86_64	x86_64	none	none	none	none
16	x86_64	i686	none	none	none	none
16	x86_64	x86_64	none	none	none	none
15	x86_64	i686	none	none	none	none
15	x86_64	x86_64	none	none	none	none

RHEL

OS Release	Host Arch	Guest Arch	1: ISO media inspect	2: Installation	3: Post-install first boot	4: Disk image inspect
RHEL-6.2	x86_64	i686	none	none	none	none
RHEL-6.2	x86_64	x86_64	none	none	none	none
RHEL-5.8	x86_64	i686	none	none	none	none
RHEL-5.8	x86_64	x86_64	none	none	none	none
RHEL-4.9	x86_64	i686	none	none	none	none
RHEL-4.9	x86_64	x86_64	none	none	none	none

Ubuntu

OS Release	Host Arch	Guest Arch	1: ISO media inspect	2: Installation	3: Post-install first boot	4: Disk image inspect
Oneiric (11.10)	x86_64	i686	none	none	none	none
Oneiric (11.10)	x86_64	x86_64	none	none	none	none
Natty (11.04)	x86_64	i686	none	none	none	none
Natty (11.04)	x86_64	x86_64	none	none	none	none
Maverick (10.10)	x86_64	i686	none	none	none	none
Maverick (10.10)	x86_64	x86_64	none	none	none	none

FreeBSD

OS Release	Host Arch	Guest Arch	1: ISO media inspect	2: Installation	3: Post-install first boot	4: Disk image inspect
9.0	x86_64	i686	none	none	none	none
9.0	x86_64	x86_64	none	none	none	none
8.2	x86_64	i686	none	none	none	none
8.2	x86_64	x86_64	none	none	none	none
8.1	x86_64	i686	none	none	none	none
8.1	x86_64	x86_64	none	none	none	none
8.0	x86_64	i686	none	none	none	none
8.0	x86_64	x86_64	none	none	none	none
7.4	x86_64	i686	none	none	none	none
7.3	x86_64	x86_64	none	none	none	none
7.3	x86_64	i686	none	none	none	none
7.2	x86_64	x86_64	none	none	none	none
7.2	x86_64	i686	none	none	none	none
7.4	x86_64	x86_64	none	none	none	none
7.1	x86_64	i686	none	none	none	none
7.1	x86_64	x86_64	none	none	none	none
7.0	x86_64	i686	none	none	none	none
7.0	x86_64	x86_64	none	none	none	none

Any other guest OS you might find. Yes, right back to MS-Dos 1.0 if you have it. We want to collect as much knowledge as possible

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 * [[Test_Day:2012-04-12_Virtualization_Test_Day-GuestOS#Test_case_4:_Disk_image_inspection | Test case 4: Disk image inspection]] - whether virt-inspect can find info for the resulting installed OS disk image
-== Tier 1 Guests ==
+== Fedora ==
-Tier 1 consists of operating systems that we expect (require?) a Fedora 17 KVM to be able to run flawlessly, with optimized, near native performance
-=== Fedora ===
 {|
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 ! Host Arch
 ! Guest Arch
-! Installation
+! 1: ISO media inspect
-! Post-install boot
+! 2: Installation
-! ISO media inspect
+! 3: Post-install first boot
-! Image inspect
+! 4: Disk image inspect
 ! Notes
 |-
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-=== RHEL ===
+== RHEL ==
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 ! Host Arch
 ! Guest Arch
-! Installation
+! 1: ISO media inspect
-! Post-install boot
+! 2: Installation
-! ISO media inspect
+! 3: Post-install first boot
-! Image inspect
+! 4: Disk image inspect
 ! Notes
 |-
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-=== Ubuntu ===
+== Ubuntu ==
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 ! Host Arch
 ! Guest Arch
-! Installation
+! 1: ISO media inspect
-! Post-install boot
+! 2: Installation
-! ISO media inspect
+! 3: Post-install first boot
-! Image inspect
+! 4: Disk image inspect
 ! Notes
 |-
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 |}
-== Tier 2 Guests ==
+== FreeBSD ==
-Tier 2 consists of guest operating systems that are expected to run on a Fedora 17 KVM host, but not neccessarily at the highest performance levels
-=== FreeBSD ===
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 ! Host Arch
 ! Guest Arch
-! Installation
+! 1: ISO media inspect
-! Post-install boot
+! 2: Installation
-! ISO media inspect
+! 3: Post-install first boot
-! Image inspect
+! 4: Disk image inspect
 ! Notes
 |-
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 |}
-== Tier 3 Guests ==
-Tier 3 consists of every single remaining x86 operating system in existance. Yes, right back to MS-Dos 1.0. We'd love it if all these operating systems worked, to demonstrate KVM's quality.
+Any other guest OS you might find. Yes, right back to MS-Dos 1.0 if you have it. We want to collect as much knowledge as possible
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 ! Host Arch
 ! Guest Arch
-! Installation
+! 1: ISO media inspect
-! Post-install boot
+! 2: Installation
-! ISO media inspect
+! 3: Post-install first boot
-! Image inspect
+! 4: Disk image inspect
 ! Notes
 |-

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