Fedora Weekly News #158

Monday, 12 January 2009

Fedora Weekly News Issue 158

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 158 for the week ending January 
11th, 2009.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue158

In this first FWN issue of 2009, we bring you several announcements of 
the outcomes of recent Fedora-related elections. Fedora 8 reaches its 
end of life (time to upgrade!), and FUDCon 11 reports abound. Much news 
coverage of the Fedora Planet, including Fedora 10 vs. OpenSuSE, 
explanations on some of the recent security items now in the latest 
(2.6.28) Linux Kernel, and Fedora and OLPC goodness. From the 
development realm, useful coverage of the state of Intel graphics under 
Fedora 10 and debates on disabling staging drivers. Release notes and 
packaging guide areas need volunteers in the documentation project, and 
the translation team welcomes new members and suggests new language 
teams. In artwork, announcement of a new November/December issue of Echo 
Monthly News, another great sister Fedora publication. Security 
advisories for Fedora 9 and 10 are brought to light and the issue round 
out with more virtualization coverage, including announcement of Xen 
3.3.1 in Rawhide and a new Fedora virtualization list, "everything 
concerning Fedora and virtualization, including Xen." Read on!

If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see 
our 'join' page[1]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list(a)redhat.com

FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Oisin Feeley, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join

-- Announcements --

In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project.

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/

Contributing Writer: Max Spevack

--- Election Results ---

Bill Nottingham and Matt Domsch were re-elected to the Fedora Board for 
two-release terms[1].

Josh Boyer, Dan Horák, Jarod Wilson, and Jon Stanley were elected to the 
Fedora Engineering Steering Committee for two-release terms[2].

Max Spevack, Joerg Simon, Francesco Ugolini, Thomas Canniot, Rodrigo 
Padula, David Nalley, and Susmit Shannigrahi were elected to the Fedora 
Ambassadors Steering Committee for two-release terms[3].

Paul Frields announced that Dimitris Glezos has been appointed to fill 
the final seat on the Fedora Board[4].

[1] 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-December/msg0001...

[2] 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-December/msg0001...

[3] 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-December/msg0001...

[4] 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-January/msg00007...

--- FUDCon Boston 2009 ---

Hopefully, you were able to attend to attend FUDCon Boston, January 
9-11.  If you weren't, keep reading below for coverage!

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConF11

--- Fedora 8 End of Life --

The end-of-life for Fedora 8 is Wednesday, January 7[1]. No further 
updates will be issued, no new builds will be allowed in the build 
system, and all open bugs against Fedora 8 will be closed WONTFIX[2].

[1] 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-December/msg0001...

[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/End_of_life

-- Planet Fedora --

In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora - an 
aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide.

http://planet.fedoraproject.org

Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin

--- General ---

Michael DeHaan wrote[1] an essay entitled Academics, Innovation, 
Patents, And a Path Beyond? about FOSS, cross-organizational 
collaboration and encouraging innovation.

Jef Spaleta had some ideas[2] about "how to do more focused new 
contributor recruitment and training in Fedora" and using the Mugshot 
online service to gather statistics and create personalized 
notifications (invitations) to its users.

Máirín Duffy created[3] a list of questions (and provoked a healthy 
discussion) that could be used to develop a set of guidelines for 
notifications ("Chatty Applications").

Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote[4] about some of the work going in to 
synchronizing Fedora and OLPC efforts.

James Morris explained[5] some of the security changes that have gone in 
to the latest (2.6.28) Linux Kernel.

Karsten Wade asked "why aren’t you publishing on the Fedora wiki?"[6] 
and followed up with a set of thoughts to encourage documentation 
contributions.

After a few Fedora 10 frustrations, Scott Williams tried-out[7] OpenSuSE 
and found some good bits and some not-so-good bits.

The latest Red Hat Magazine included[8] a video interview of Michael 
DeHann discussing Cobbler "and how it simplifies network installations 
for datacenters and other large-scale linux environments".

James Laska continued[9] his tutorial on Creating a virtual test lab 
(using tools such as Cobbler, Koan and SNAKE).

David Nalley thanked[10] HP for providing Mini-notes (with Linux 
preinstalled!) for Fedora Ambassadors.

Jef Spaleta wrote[11] an open letter to Mark Shuttleworth questioning 
the openness (or lack thereof) of Canonical's Launchpad.

[1] http://www.michaeldehaan.net/?p=820

[2] http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/31456.html

[3] http://mihmo.livejournal.com/66637.html

[4] http://gregdek.livejournal.com/43404.html

[5] http://james-morris.livejournal.com/37583.html

[6] 
http://iquaid.org/2009/01/06/the-outside-and-inside-of-documentation-or-w...

[7] http://vwbusguy.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/review-opensuse-111/

[8] http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2009/01/07/video-spotlight-on-cobbler/

[9] http://jlaska.livejournal.com/3910.html

[10] http://www.nalley.sc/david/?p=171

[11] http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/31829.html

--- FUDCon 11 ---

A small selection of FUDCon-related posts:

[1] 
http://sexysexypenguins.com/2009/01/10/fudcon-f11-not-in-boston-listen-li...

("Not in Boston? Listen Live, Watch Videos After!")

[2] Photos: http://mihmo.livejournal.com/67003.html

[3] More photos: http://mihmo.livejournal.com/67287.html

[4] Even more photos: http://mihmo.livejournal.com/67388.html

-- Developments --

In this section the people, personalities and debates on the 
@fedora-devel mailing list are summarized.

Contributing Writer: Oisin Feeley

--- Default ssh-agent Dialog Pop-up ---

Confusion abounded when user "nodata" reported[1] that running ssh-add 
from the command-line popped up a gnome dialog requesting his private 
SSH key. "nodata" disliked handing out his private key in such a manner. 
The confusion resulted from the availability of at least two possible 
ssh-agents[2] and also a change in configuration between Fedora 9 and 
Fedora 10 which presents the authentication dialog by default.

Ricky Zhou was among those who suggested (with a manpage quote) that the 
SSH_ASKPASS environment variable determined whether the passphrase was 
read from a terminal or by an X11 dialog. Separately Jesse Keating[3] 
and Nalin Dahyabhai explained[4] that the dialog was presented by 
gnome-keyring and not gnome-ssh-askpass.

"nodata" questioned[5] whether the behavior had changed between Fedora 9 
and Fedora 10 and expressed irritation that a "[...] GUI is popping up 
when I am using a command line app." Jesse Keating responded[6]: "You're 
using a command line app from a graphical terminal. Also, cli apps 
aren't the only use for ssh and ssh keys." This did not appeal to many 
respondents including John Linville who questioned[7] the benefit of 
changing focus to a new window to type a passphrase. Callum Lerwick 
rather tartly outlined[8] some benefits including preventing key logging 
attacks.

Matthias Clasen suggested[9] using

gconftool-2 -s -t bool /apps/gnome-keyring/daemon-components/ssh false

to turn off the behavior for those who dislike it and this led to 
several requests to make this the default. Andrew Haley put[10] the case 
that "[t]he key argument against a pop-up dialog box that asks for the 
passphrase is that we're training people to type secrets into pop-up 
dialog boxes. Bad psychology, bad security."

][MatthiasClasen|Matthias Clasen]] and Tomas Mraz with Jerry Amundson 
explored[11] the use of SSH_ASKPASS as an alternate method to disable 
the GUI dialog.

[1] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg00486.html

[2] Private keys are stored by ssh agents so that they may handle all 
key related operations requested by clients. The passphrase to decrypt 
the key thus need only be typed into the agent once instead of 
per-operation.

[3] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg00487.html

[4] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg00536.html

[5] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg00492.html

[6] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg00495.html

[7] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg00523.html

[8] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg00533.html

[9] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg00498.html

[10] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg00517.html

[11] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg00540.html

--- Intel Graphics Installation Woes ---

"Mike" requested[1] information on when a working xorg-x11-drv-i810 
driver for Intel graphics chipsets had a chance of appearing. He was 
disappointed that it was non-trivial to get two machines with 82945G and 
82845G chipsets installed and had needed to fall back to using the vesa 
driver instead of the intel one.

Others listed outstanding bugzilla entries for a wide range of Intel 
chipsets. Dan Williams asked[2] if using Option "EXANoComposite"
"true" 
as a workaround for problems with the i830 chipsets was succesfull and 
received mixed reports. It seemed that he was making some progress with 
resolving some of the issues.

MAYoung suggested[3] that setting "NoAccel true" in xorg.conf might work 
for some people but that "[...] intel graphics are highly flaky on 
Fedora 10."

Robert Arendt laid[4] the blame at the door of upstream merges of 
GEM/DRM into the kernel and noted that other distributions were 
suffering identical problems. "Mike" later confirmed[5] this with a list 
of bugzilla entries from upstream freedesktop.org: "It would be nice if 
Intel would help to get this fixed, and there are indeed problems with 
Suse, Ubuntu and Mandriva also with newer drivers and Intel graphics 
chipsets of various flavors - this is really bad!"

[1] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg00435.html

[2] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg00475.html

[3] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg00443.html

[4] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg00445.html

[5] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg00467.html

--- KPackageKit Auto-update Bug ---

Michael B Allen reported[1] that his system had performed an update 
without his permission and asked how to completely disable such behavior.

It appeared[2] that this was due to a bug in KPackageKit which has been 
unfixable[3] for over a month due in part to the complexity of the code.

[1] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg00461.html

[2] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg00504.html

[3] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg00510.html

--- Disabling Staging Drivers ? ---

Rahul Sundaram asked[1] if enabling the many new drivers in the staging 
tree[2] would make sense in rawhide in order to support a wider range of 
hardware such as the EeePC's ralink wireless chipset.

Opinion was roughly split between those who were completely against the 
idea and those who suggested avoiding codifying a rigid policy. Matthew 
Garrett believed[3] that it would be "somewhat user-hostile" to, for 
example enable the ralink drivers in rawhide but possibly remove them 
for a general release. He argued that the ralink drivers were a 
dead-end[4] which would never merge upstream. On the other hand Dave 
Jones preferred[5] to take a case-by-case approach as long as "[...] we 
have someone responsible for working on it, with the goal of getting it 
out of staging, and dealing with bugs etc. Not unlike the same reasoning 
for us adding various not-yet-upstream drivers to the Fedora kernel really."

While preferring to completely disable the staging drivers Thorsten 
Leemhuis expressed[6] the intention to provide RPM Fusion kmods in that 
case. Dan Williams made[7] a strong argument that "-staging" itself was 
a bad idea as it gave "legitimacy to drivers of questionable quality" 
and John Linville limned[8] the tortured history of the at76 driver.

[1] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg00459.html

[2] "linux-staging" is a kernel tree whose purpose is to test drivers 
and filesystems for later inclusion in mainline 
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/10/329

[3] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg00462.html

[4] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg00474.html

[5] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg00472.html

[6] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg00465.html

[7] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg00473.html

[8] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg00476.html

--- git-* Commands Moved to /usr/libexec/git-core/ ---

Adam Tkac worried[1] that scripts would break due to the latest git 
branch in rawhide which had moved all the git-* binaries to 
/usr/libexec/git-core in order to comply with upstream practice. The 
issue was previously discussed (see FWN#141[2)] with the resolution that 
updating to git-1.6.0 would be a flag day for this change. Adam 
suggested that the new location could be added to the PATH environment 
variable but this received no support.

Karel Zak advocated[3] that such scripts should be fixed as the change 
had been coming since 2006.

Bryn Reeves wondered[4] if compatibility symlinks and a release note 
would ease the transition over a couple of releases. Although the 
symlinks were generally felt to be a non-effective strategy Todd 
Zulinger was encouraged[5] by Paul W. Frields to open a bugzilla entry 
against the Release Notes to ensure that the documentation team take 
care of highlighting the issue for Fedora 11.

[1] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg00404.html

[2] 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue141#Git-1.6.0_Commands_to_be_Moved...

[3] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg00408.html

[4] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg00410.html

[5] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg00460.html

--- Mandatory FHS Adherence ---

JasonTibbitts posted[1] a summary and links to the 2009-01-06 FPC 
meeting deliberations. Interest on @fedora-devel was mostly sparked by 
the item which declared that the FPC would "Make adherence to the FHS a 
MUST [.]" Jason encouraged reading of the full minutes in order to 
understand this item.

Doug Ledford discussed[2] the problem his MPI[3] implementations 
experienced with the FHS and Richard W. M. Jones expressed [4] concern 
that the FHS was a moribund standard and adhering to it would block 
projects such as MinGW without any method to evolve the standard. Toshio 
Kuratomi responded in detail in both threads and pointed out[5] that the 
MinGW case had been addressed in the meeting and also that there were 
problems with changing the FHS.

[1] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg00362.html

[2] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg00424.html

[3] http://www.open-mpi.org/papers/ipdps-2006/

[4] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg00469.html

[5] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg00483.html

-- Documentation --

In this section, we cover the Fedora Documentation Project.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject

Contributing Writer: Jason Taylor

--- Docs Project and FUDCon ---

At FUDCon the Documentation Project tasks[0] were discussed and some 
headway was made. There is still work to be done and the information 
contained here[0] can be used to pickup where tasks were left off.

[0] 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Your_Docs_Project_BarCamp_session_FUDConF11

--- Documentation Team Ownership Deadline ---

The Docs Project has divided the published documentation into teams[0]. 
The teams consist of a Lead who manages the overall direction of the 
document and writers who write and/or edit various pieces of the 
published document. There are two publications that need a lead, the 
release notes[1] and the packaging guide[2]. The packaging guide needs a 
rewrite and the release notes will start the update/publication process 
for F11. The deadline for claiming a publication is the week of 11-Jan-2009.

[0] 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs_Project_content_tasks_for_experienced...

[1] https://fedorahosted.org/release-notes/

[2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingGuidelines

-- Translation --

This section covers the news surrounding the Fedora Translation (L10n) 
Project.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N

Contributing Writer: Runa Bhattacharjee

--- cvsl10n Sponsorship and Listing of Sponsors ---

As a follow-up to the ongoing discussion about the "cvsl10n" sponsorship 
procedure, NorikoMizumoto and IgorSoares have put together a page[1][2] 
with the name of the Administrators and Sponsors of the "cvsl10n" group. 
IgorSoares suggested the formation of language groups to ease the 
sponsorship and an aging policy for unattended requests[3]. 
RunaBhattacharjee suggested if a patch to the existing FAS interface as 
possible, that would allow addition of the language name when a new 
member sends a request to join the FLP[4]. ChristianRose also suggested 
a patch for damned-lies that would allow addition of the "sponsor" 
information directly on the team's page[5].

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N/GroupSponsors

[2] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2008-December/msg00091....

[3] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2008-December/msg00086....

[4] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2008-December/msg00085....

[5] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-January/msg00024.html

--- New Administrators for cvsl10n ---

The FLSCo members were upgraded to "Administrators" of the "cvsl10n" 
group by KarstenWade[6].

[6] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2008-December/msg00108....

--- TQSG upgraded ---

NorikoMizumoto announced[7] the availability of the updated .pot and .po 
files of the Translation Quick Start Guide (TQSG). FLP members can also 
join the TQSG project to help in its maintenance.

[7] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-January/msg00008.html

--- New Members in the FLP Project ---

ChristopheAlladoum (French)[8], Luís Gomes (Portugeuse)[9], Mieszko 
Ślusarczyk (Polish)[10], Mario Jalsovec (Croatian)[11], Kris Thomsen 
(Danish)[12], David Kjær (Danish)[13], Wes Freeman (Spanish)[14] join 
the FLP teams.

[8] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-January/msg00014.html

[9] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2008-December/msg00113....

[10] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2008-December/msg00112....

[11] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2008-December/msg00109....

[12] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2008-December/msg00107....

[13] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2008-December/msg00094....

[14] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2009-January/msg00009.html

-- Artwork --

In this section, we cover the Fedora Artwork Project.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork

Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei

--- Echo News and Development ---

After a month of absence, Martin Sourada announced[1] on @fedora-art a 
new issue[2] of Echo Monthly News "We've just published latest Echo 
Monthly News Issue. Due too lack of enough content, it is joint of 
November's and December's happenings"

[1] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2009-January/msg00021.html

[2] https://fedorahosted.org/echo-icon-theme/wiki/MonthlyNews/Issue4-5

[3] https://fedorahosted.org/echo-icon-theme/wiki/MonthlyNews

In other Echo related news, Martin announced[4] a poll[5] regarding the 
future development of the theme "I've just posted a poll about Echo 
Perspective on Fedora Forum to see our user base opinion and I'd like to 
hear the opinions of the Art Team members as well"

[4] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2009-January/msg00030.html

[5] http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=210159

-- Security Advisories --

In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce.

https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce

Contributing Writer: David Nalley

--- Fedora 10 Security Advisories ---

     * proftpd-1.3.1-8.fc10 - 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg0...
     * xterm-238-1.fc10 - 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg0...
     * samba-3.2.7-0.25.fc10 - 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg0...
     * zoneminder-1.23.3-2.fc10 - 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg0...
     * thunderbird-2.0.0.19-1.fc10 - 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg0...
     * p7zip-4.61-1.fc10 - 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg0...
     * avahi-0.6.22-12.fc10 - 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg0...
     * openssl-0.9.8g-12.fc10 - 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg0... 

--- Fedora 9 Security Advisories ---

     * xterm-238-1.fc9 - 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg0...
     * proftpd-1.3.1-8.fc9 - 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg0...
     * thunderbird-2.0.0.19-1.fc9 - 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg0...
     * p7zip-4.61-1.fc9 - 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg0...
     * am-utils-6.1.5-8.1.fc9 - 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg0...
     * samba-3.2.7-0.23.fc9 - 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg0...
     * openssl-0.9.8g-9.12.fc9 - 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg0... 

--- Fedora 8 Security Advisories ---

Fedora 8 is now EOL
Per FESCo support for Fedora 8 was discontinued on January 7th 2009 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-November/msg02014....

-- Virtualization --

In this section, we cover discussion on the @et-mgmnt-tools-list, 
@fedora-xen-list, @libvirt-list and @ovirt-devel-list of Fedora 
virtualization technologies.

Contributing Writer: Dale Bewley

--- Enterprise Management Tools List ---

This section contains the discussion happening on the et-mgmt-tools list

-- Help Perfect Cobbler SELinux Policy ---

Dominick Grift posted[1] "instructions on how to install a bare SELinux 
policy for image:Echo-package-16px.pngcobbler. Feedback in the form of 
AVC denials would be appreciated so that we can perfect this bare policy."

Michael DeHaan asked[2] "Would someone like to take a shot at refining 
this policy some or at least running Cobbler with that for a while (in 
permissive mode) to identify what else needs to be allowed?" and added 
the policy to the cobbler wiki[3].

[1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/et-mgmt-tools/2009-January/msg00003.html

[2] http://www.redhat.com/archives/et-mgmt-tools/2009-January/msg00004.html

[3] http://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/SeLinuxPolicy

--- Fedora Virtualization List ---

This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-virt list.

--- New Fedora Virtualization List ---

On @fedora-xen, Daniel Veillard announced[1] the creation of the new 
@fedora-virt list.

"As the initiator for [the fedora-xen] list, I must admit I made a 
mistake 3 years ago, I should have picked a list name agnostic from the 
hypervisor name. With the current state of Xen in Fedora recent releases 
it really make sense to try to correct that mistake ... it's never too 
late ! So http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-virt is born, I 
don't want to mass-subscribe people, especially as I think the current 
list should survive with its Xen centric focus. You can subscribe 
directly to the new URL above.

The topic is everything concerning Fedora and virtualization including Xen.

I think the [fedora-xen] list would be a good place for people still 
using Fedora <= 8 with Xen, but it's just a suggestion :-)"

And on @et-mgt-tools Richard W.M. Jones suggested[2] "we should fold 
et-mgmt-tools into fedora-virt too."

[1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2009-January/msg00014.html

[2] http://www.redhat.com/archives/et-mgmt-tools/2009-January/msg00010.html

--- Fedora Xen List ---

This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-xen list.

--- Xen 3.3.1 in Rawhide ---

Pasi Kärkkäinen pointed[1] out the release of 
image:Echo-package-16px.pngxen 3.3.1. A few days later it was made 
available[2] in Rawhide.

[1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2009-January/msg00008.html

[2] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=7

--- Manage Shutdowns of KVM Xenner Guests ---

Felix Schwarz used[1] image:Echo-package-16px.pngkvm and 
image:Echo-package-16px.pngxenner to migrate a Fedora 8 Xen dom0 host to 
Fedora 10.

"So far this was easier than expected. :-) Of course there are some 
smaller issues (Xenner does not work with SElinux, NetworkManager does 
not support bridges) but now there is only one real issue left:

How can I automatically shut down all running VMs when my host machine 
goes down? All VMs do poweroff if I press the 'shutdown' button in 
virt-manager. So I guess it's just a matter of sending this signal to 
all running VMs and waiting a bit."

[1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2009-January/msg00001.html

--- Test Dom0 Kernel For Fedora 10 ---

Michael Young has[1] "succeeded in getting a fedora based 
image:Echo-package-16px.pngkernel to build with Dom0 patches added." ... 
"If anyone wants to inspect it, the source rpm generated is at 
http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/~may/xen/kernel-2.6.28-0.106.rc6.fc10.src.rpm 
It is completely untested beyond the fact that it compiles for me, so I 
have no idea if a kernel built from it will actually boot."

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