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Virtualization Test Day

Date 2021-10-08
Time all day

Website Virtualization
IRC #fedora-test-day
Mailing list virt
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If you come to this page before or after the test day is completed, your testing is still valuable, and you can use the information on this page to test, file any bugs you find at Bugzilla, and add your results to the results section. If this page is more than a month old when you arrive here, please check the current schedule [on Fedocal] and see if a similar but more recent Test Day is planned or has already happened.

What to test?[edit]

Today's installment of Fedora Test Day will focus on Virtualization in Fedora 35. We will be interested covering the regular virt-install, KVM, Boxes, Vbox.

Who's available[edit]

The following cast of characters will be available for testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion.

What's needed to test[edit]

For starters, your physical machine should have:

  • Hardware virtualization support (e.g. Intel VT or AMD-V) (see Is My Guest Using KVM?).
  • Up to 10-20Gb free disk space. Guest images take up a lot of space.
  • Get the packages with: dnf groupinstall virtualization

As for getting the latest virt packages, you have a few options:

Fedora 35 on a physical machine[edit]

The preferred testing platform is a fully updated Fedora 35 machine. You have a few options for getting the Fedora 35 bits:

Install with CD/DVD[edit]

You can download the latest Fedora 35 composes here:

Run Fedora 35 in a VM with nested virtualization[edit]

Do you have a new machine with a ton of ram and storage space, running Fedora 33/34? Nested virt might be an option! This allows you to create KVM guests inside a Fedora 35 VM.

Run the tests[edit]

Visit the result page and click on the column title links to see the tests that need to be run: most column titles are links to a specific test case. Follow the instructions there, then enter your results by clicking the Enter result button for the test.

Reporting bugs[edit]

If you have problems with any of the tests, have a look in the results page.

If you don't see it, please file a new bug to Bugzilla. If you are unsure about exactly how to file the report or what other information to include, just ask on IRC #fedora-test-day or #fedora-qa and we will help you.

Test Results[edit]

KVM Install[edit]

User Profile Current KVM install Previous KVM install Guest Install Via URL Import VM References
adamthiede Thinkpad T480
Pass pass
[1]
  1. Fedora 35 KDE spin installed and ran fine.
adamthiede Thinkpad X230
Pass pass
akumar99 AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
Pass pass
danniel ideapad s145 8GB
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
ericp Dell XPS 9360
Pass pass
[1]
  1. It was painfully slow. I don't remember what I have to do, but there's something custom I have to do to virt-manager instances, to get them to work without using an excessive amount of CPU. I've done it in the past, but I generally don't use VMs on my laptop these days.
geraldosimiao Acer Aspire i7-3632QM 15.4 GiB of RAM
Pass pass
[1]
Pass pass
[2]
Pass pass
  1. Kernel Version: 5.14.9-300.fc35.x86_64
  2. kernel-5.13.19-200.fc34
mcinglis System76 Lemur Pro (lemp10) i7-1165G7 16GB M2.SSD-1; host F35 Workstation; guest F35 Everything Minimal
Pass pass
nalsai Intel DH67CL i5 2500
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
rescrack Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano Gen 1
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
text
Pass pass
yeats AMD Ryzen 5 3600
Pass pass

Boxes Install[edit]

User Profile Current Boxes Install References
adamthiede Thinkpad X230
Pass pass
akumar99
Pass pass
mcinglis System76 Lemur Pro (lemp10) i7-1165G7 16GB M2.SSD-1; host F35 Workstation; guest F35 Everything Xfce
Pass pass
nalsai Intel DH67CL i5 2500
Pass pass
rai510 Boxes Intel
Pass pass
rai510 Boxes Ryzen 1800x
Pass pass
rai510 Boxes Ryzen 3400g
Pass pass
rescrack Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano Gen 1
Pass pass
yeats AMD Ryzen 5 3600
Pass pass

Virtual Box[edit]

User Profile Install Shared Clipboard References
akumar99 Virtualbox
Pass pass
bittin Virtualbox
Pass pass
Pass pass
nalsai Intel DH67CL i5 2500
Pass pass
Pass pass
yeats AMD Ryzen 5 3600
Pass pass
Pass pass

Standard Features[edit]

User Profile VM Lifecycle VM Sanpshots Change VM CDROM Host USB Hotplug Nested virt References
adamthiede Thinkpad X230
Fail fail
[1]
Fail fail
[2]
Pass pass
  1. Failed to save virtual machine. Clone/Delete function as expected.
  2. Snapshot creation/restore while powered off functions. Snapshot creation while running fails: Failed to take snapshot: pre-save failed: qxl
geraldosimiao Acer Aspire i7-3632QM 15.4 GiB of RAM
Pass pass
[1]
  1. libvirt-libs-7.6.0-3.fc35.x86_64 libvirt-glib-4.0.0-3.fc35.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-kvm-7.6.0-3.fc35.x86_64 virt-manager-3.2.0-4.fc35.noarch virt-viewer-10.0-4.fc35.x86_64
nalsai Intel DH67CL i5 2500
Fail fail
[1]
Fail fail
[2]
Pass pass
Pass pass
Pass pass
  1. Failed to save virtual machine
  2. Failed to take snapshot while virtual machine is running - pre-save failed: qxl
rescrack Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano Gen 1
Fail fail
[1]
Fail fail
[2]
Pass pass
  1. Failed to save virtual machine
  2. Failed to take snapshot while virtual machine was running