Dale Bewley
I'm vegan and I mountain bike a lot.
Contact
- Email: dale AT bewley DOT net
- IRC: dbewley (not there often, sometimes #fedora-admin #fedora-docs)
- GPG key: 4F6056DE
- Fedora Account: dale
- Social Networks: Mugshot, Facebook
- Blog: http://tofu.org/drupal/blog/1
- Home: http://dale.bewley.net
Activities within Fedora
Wiki Work
- All my wiki contributions
FWN Virtualization Beat
- Pondering FWN on Zikula
- I have contributed to Fedora Weekly News in the Virtualization Beat since August '08.
- Past FWN Virtualization Beats:
205, 204, 203, 202, 201, 200, 199, 198, 197, 196, 195, 194, 193, 192, 191, 190, 189, 188, 187, 186, 185, 184, 183, 182, 181, 180, 179, 178, 177, 176, 175, 174, 173, 172 171, 170, 169, 168, 167, 166, 165, 164, 163 162, 161, 160, 159, 158, 157, 156, 155, 154, 153, 152, 151, 150, 149, 148, 147, 146, 145, 144, 143, 142, 141, 140, 139, 138, 137
Docs Virtualization Beat
- I worked on the Virtualization release notes for F10 through F12.
Virtualization Quick Start
- I'd like to take a whack at the Virtualization Quick Start. When will I find the time?
Virtualization Release Notes
Previous Fedora Virtualization Release Notes:
F13 (later), F12, F11, F10, F9, F8
Release Notes Howto
Relnotes Scratchpad Pages
For each release I begin by gathering all the info I can and place it on the following pages before moving it to the public release notes beat page.
Misc Virt
Windows KVM Guest and Paravirt NIC Drivers
As seen in
FWN#152. The virt-manager
GUI doesn't have the knobs in the UI yet to
enable virtio drivers. THe libvirt
framework underneath does support it, so it can be done by hand. Here's how.
- Download the drivers to guest and extract on desktop.
- Shutdown the guest
virsh shutdown winxp
- Dump the libvirt XML
virsh dumpxml winxp > winxp-before.xml
, and change the network settings. To the<interface>
block add<model type='virtio'/>
like this:
[root@seitan virt]# diff -u winxp-before.xml winxp-after.xml --- winxp-before.xml 2008-12-01 17:37:39.000000000 -0800 +++ winxp-after.xml 2008-12-01 17:39:21.000000000 -0800 @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ <readonly/> </disk> <interface type='network'> + <model type='virtio'/> <mac address='54:52:00:03:09:01'/> <source network='default'/> <target dev='vnet0'/>
- Redefine the domain with the altered config:
virsh define winxp-after.xml
- Start the guest
virsh start winxp
, and install the drivers within Windows when the new hardware detection wizard pops up.
See also: http://www.linux-kvm.com/content/tip-how-setup-windows-guest-paravirtual-network-drivers