2026-03-23 CoreOS

Fedora 44 CoreOS Test Week


Date	2026-03-23 to 2026-03-27
Time	All Week

Website	QA/Test Days
Matrix	#coreos:fedoraproject.org^{(other clients\|?)}
Mailing list	test

Can't make the date?
If you come to this page 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, 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 and see if a similar but more recent Test Day is planned or has already happened.

What to test?[edit]

This Test Day will focus on Fedora CoreOS.

Who's available?[edit]

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

Development - Yasmin de Souza (ydesouza), Dusty Mabe (dustymabe)
Quality - Lukáš Růžička (lruzicka), Kamil Paral (kparal), Adam Williamson (adamw), Tiago Bueno (tlbueno)

You can chat with us on Matrix. See the infobox on top of the page to learn where to join.

Prerequisites for Test Day[edit]

A virtual machine or a bare metal machine (x86_64, aarch64, ppc64le, s390x)
Test Day Image

Grab images/artifacts/information for the most current next stream release (44) from our Download Page.

The Documentation is available here.
Documentation feedback is welcome through chat, mailing list, GitHub issue tracker and in the form of a pull request to the documentation sources.

How to test?[edit]

Visit the results 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 ➕ (plus) button for that test case.

Please also try to experiment and explore and perform tasks not mentioned in any of the pre-defined test cases.

Reporting bugs[edit]

Please report all bugs, issues or enhancement proposals to the Fedora CoreOS issue tracker.

We really need bug reports!
Please note that just mentioning your problem into the comments section on the results page is not very helpful. Very often those problems only happen in specific circumstances, or with specific steps taken. We need the logs and screenshots, and we need to be able to ask you followup questions. Please file bug reports, it's much more useful than a short comment. Thank you!

When filing the bug, it's very helpful to include:

exact steps you've performed (and whether you can reproduce it again)
screenshots or videos, if applicable
system journal (log), which you can retrieve by journalctl -b > journal.txt
all output in a terminal, if started from a terminal
your system description

If you are unsure about exactly how to file the report or what other information to include, just ask us.

Please make sure to link to the bug when submitting your test result, thanks!

Exported Test Results[edit]

aarch64[edit]

User	Profile	AppleHV	Raspberry Pi 4	References
Cory Farmer	Fedora CoreOS 44.20260316.1.1 (aarch64)		pass ^[1] pass ^[2] pass ^[3]	↑ Successfully booted Raspberry Pi 4 (1GB) using EDK2 UEFI firmware. ↑ Successfully layered neovim.raw via systemd-sysext. ↑ Used .build quadlet unit to build a custom rootless Forgejo image with asciidoctor layered in via apk.
Joel Capitao	RPi 4 Model B/8GB with fedora-coreos-44.20260316.1.1-metal.aarch64.raw.xz		pass ^[1]	↑ Successfully booted using U-Boot bootloader
Osama Albahrani	M2 Pro MacBook Pro	pass ^[1] pass ^[2] pass ^[3] pass ^[4]		↑ Able to ssh and `rpm-ostree install fastfetch` ↑ Able to password login and `rpm-ostree install fastfetch` ↑ Able to ssh and `brew install fastfetch` ↑ Able to password login and `brew install fastfetch`
Steven Presti	M4 Max MacBook Pro	pass ^[1]		↑ Works as expected following documentation https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-coreos/provisioning-applehv/

ppc64le[edit]

User	Profile	Virtual install	Bare Metal install	Running from RAM	IBM Cloud	References

s390x[edit]

User	Profile	Virtual install	Bare Metal install	Runnning from RAM	IBM Cloud	References

x86_64[edit]

User	Profile	Virtual install	Bare Metal install	Running from RAM	References
Cory Farmer	Fedora CoreOS 44.20260316.1.1 (x86_64)		pass ^[1]		↑ Bare Metal (Thinkpad P43s) via coreos-installer
Jaroslav Groman	Fedora CoreOS 44.20260316.1.1 Live ISO	pass	pass	pass
lruzicka	Libvirt based VM, CoreOS Live ISO	pass
Nemric	Fedora CoreOS 44.20260316.1.1 iPXE			pass
Oğuz Ersen	fedora-coreos-44.20260316.1.1-live-iso.x86_64	pass
Parag Nemade	Fedora CoreOS 44.20260316.1.1 ISO	pass
Venkata Subramani	vvspune	pass ^[1]			↑ virtual install using virt-manager in Fedora43 iso file

Platforms launch[edit]

User	Profile	Alibaba	DigitalOcean	Hetzner	Hyper-v	Kubevirt	Oracle Cloud	Proxmox VE	References
Dusty Mabe	aarch64 VM.Standard.A1.Flex shape with fedora-coreos-44.20260316.1.1-oraclecloud.aarch64.qcow2						pass ^[1]		↑ Opened a PR to make the docs better: https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-docs/pull/799
Dusty Mabe	s-2vcpu-2gb DigitalOcean `fedora-coreos-44.20260316.1.1-digitalocean.x86_64.qcow`		pass
Huijing Hei	ecs.e-c1m1.large with `fedora-coreos-44.20260316.1.1-aliyun.x86_64.qcow2`	pass ^[1]							↑ Launch VM successfully
Jean-Baptiste Trystram	jbtrystram					pass ^[1]			↑ Launched a kubevirt VM on openshift without issues
Michael Armijo	fedora-coreos-44.20260316.1.1-hyperv.x86_64.vhdx				pass ^[1]				↑ Launched Hyper-V Gen2 VM with no issues
Michael Armijo	fedora-coreos-44.20260316.1.1-proxmoxve.x86_64.qcow2							pass ^[1]	↑ Followed https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-coreos/provisioning-proxmoxve/#_setting_up_a_new_vm successfully
Rolv Apneseth	fedora-coreos-44.20260316.1.1-hetzner.x86_64.raw.xz			pass

Advanced configuration[edit]

User	Profile	Static networking	Building containers	Containerized service	Kernel tuning (sysctl)	Modifying kernel arguments	OS extensions	References
Cory Farmer	Fedora CoreOS 44.20260316.1.1 (aarch64)	pass ^[1]	pass ^[2]	pass ^[3]			pass ^[4]	↑ Set static IP via /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/*.nmconnection ↑ Used .build quadlet unit to build a custom rootless Forgejo image with asciidoctor layered in via apk. ↑ Ran rootful Pi-hole container via quadlet in /etc/containers/systemd/. ↑ Layered tang (rpm-ostree install) using provided systemd unit from documentation as example.
Cory Farmer	Fedora CoreOS 44.20260316.1.1 (x86_64)		pass ^[1]	pass ^[2]	pass ^[3]	pass ^[4]	pass ^[5]	↑ Used .build quadlet unit to build a custom rootless Forgejo image with asciidoctor layered in via apk. ↑ Successfully deployed Ollama and Forgejo via user-level Quadlet ↑ Applied vm.swappiness = 10 via /etc/sysctl.d/ and verified with sysctl. ↑ Successfully modified boot arguments via Ignition to include mitigations=off and crashkernel=300M. ↑ Successfully layered neovim.raw via systemd-sysext.
Jaroslav Groman	bare metal / Fedora CoreOS 44.20260316.1.1 Live ISO	pass
lruzicka	Libvirt based VM, CoreOS Live ISO		pass ^[1]					↑ Only tested with podman
Nemric	Fedora CoreOS 44.20260316.1.1 iPXE			pass ^[1]				↑ Ok with quadlet and systemd units

Really advanced configuration[edit]

User	Profile	Configuring swap on ZRAM	Configuring time zone	Debugging with Toolbox	Customizing NIC name	Setting alternatives	Node counting	KDump via Ignition	References
Cory Farmer	Fedora CoreOS 44.20260316.1.1 (aarch64)	pass ^[1]	pass ^[2]		fail ^[3]		pass ^[4]		↑ Initialized /dev/zram0 via zram-generator.conf; Verified via zramctl ↑ Verified /etc/localtime symlink persistence. ↑ EDK2 UEFI on RPi4 fails to pass the hardware MAC via ACPI, forcing the bcmgenet driver to generate a random MAC on every boot. Documented MAC Address matching fails; must use Driver= matching or switch UEFI to Devicetree mode. ↑ Unit rpm-ostree-countme.timer is masked.
Cory Farmer	Fedora CoreOS 44.20260316.1.1 (x86_64)	pass ^[1]	pass ^[2]	pass ^[3]	pass ^[4]			pass ^[5]	↑ Initialized /dev/zram0 via zram-generator.conf; Verified via zramctl ↑ Verified /etc/localtime symlink persistence. ↑ Created and entered a Fedora 44 toolbox; verified package installation (dnf install strace) and host-mount access. ↑ Successfully set interface name using documentation's systemd link file & udev rule methods. ↑ Enabled and verified kdump.service status. Verified that kexec-dmesg.log file was created in /var/crash.
Dusty Mabe	s-2vcpu-2gb DigitalOcean `fedora-coreos-44.20260316.1.1-digitalocean.x86_64.qcow`					fail ^[1]^[2]			↑ setting alternatives example in the docs doesn't work because iptables-legacy is no longer installed. Opened an issue ↑ https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-docs/issues/798
Nemric	Fedora CoreOS 44.20260316.1.1 iPXE	pass

Upgrade[edit]

User	Profile	Switch stream	Bootloader updates	References
Angel Cervera Roldan	Fedora CoreOS 44.20260316.1.1	pass
Joel Capitao	RPi 4 Model B/8GB with Fedora CoreOS 44.20260316.1.1	pass

Tutorials[edit]

User	Profile	All Tests - Note the ones you did	References
Yasmin Valim de Souza	fedora-coreos-44.20260316.1.1-qemu.x86_64.qcow2.xz	pass ^[1] pass ^[2] pass ^[3] pass ^[4] pass ^[5]	↑ Starting a service on first boot. ↑ Launching a user-level systemd unit on boot. ↑ Enabling autologin and custom hostname. ↑ SSH access and starting containers. ↑ Testing Fedora CoreOS updates.

Miscellaneous[edit]

User	Profile	Documentation	Exploratory testing	References
Cory Farmer	Fedora CoreOS 44.20260316.1.1 (aarch64)		pass ^[1]	↑ Successfully layered neovim.raw via systemd-sysext.
Nemric	Fedora CoreOS 44.20260316.1.1 iPXE		pass ^[1] pass ^[2]	↑ Using sysexts https://fedora-sysexts.github.io/fedora/ ↑ Running k8s node with containerized kubelet and Cri-O

[1] Successfully booted Raspberry Pi 4 (1GB) using EDK2 UEFI firmware.

[2] Successfully layered neovim.raw via systemd-sysext.

[3] Used .build quadlet unit to build a custom rootless Forgejo image with asciidoctor layered in via apk.

[4] Successfully booted using U-Boot bootloader

[5] Able to ssh and rpm-ostree install fastfetch

[6] Able to password login and rpm-ostree install fastfetch

[7] Able to ssh and brew install fastfetch

[8] Able to password login and brew install fastfetch

[9] Works as expected following documentation https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-coreos/provisioning-applehv/

[10] Bare Metal (Thinkpad P43s) via coreos-installer

[11] virtual install using virt-manager in Fedora43 iso file

[12] Opened a PR to make the docs better: https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-docs/pull/799

[13] Launch VM successfully

[14] Launched a kubevirt VM on openshift without issues

[15] Launched Hyper-V Gen2 VM with no issues

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