Does KVM PCI Device Assignment allow guests to access firewire?
by Wayne Feick
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KVM_PCI_Device_Assignment
The work on PCI device assignment looks like it might allow guests to
access a firewire device. Can anyone confirm or deny whether that will
be the case?
Specifically, I currently run Linux as my desktop and Windows in a
VMware guest for software like Adobe Premiere. This arrangement lets me
do video editing, but not video capture from firewire since VMware
doesn't support it. If KVM allows me to run a Windows guest that will be
able to do capture video from the firewire port, I'll be switching away
from VMware.
Wayne.
15 years, 3 months
Weekly virt status
by Mark McLoughlin
Hey,
I've started sending out a "Fedora Virtualization status report" to
folks at Red Hat to keep people informed about what's going on.
Dan Berrange suggested I send it here too ... not sure why I didn't
think of that myself.
Feedback or suggestions very welcome.
Cheers,
Mark.
The Fedora 11 Alpha Freeze happened this week, but unfortunately
things we in great shape. Wait, that's a good thing!
Well, things were in such great shape, there was going to be too big a
gap between the freeze and release, so rel-eng has decided to try the
freeze again next week. So it now looks like:
2009-01-27 Alpha Freeze (4 days)
2009-03-03 Feature freeze (39 days)
2009-03-10 Beta Freeze (46 days)
2009-04-14 Final freeze (81 days)
Alpha Freeze, Take 1
====================
We had a bunch of blockers to resolve before the freeze. Rawhide
installs had all sorts of issues, mainly in anaconda.
However, just because they're anaconda bugs doesn't let us off the
hook. Some of these were virt specific, and the existance of any of
these blockers meant that we weren't rigorous enough about testing and
filing bugs against rawhide. Hopefully we'll do better for the rest of
the release cycle.
Some of the anaconda blockers:
rawhide anaconda stage1 x86_64 images missing virtio drivers
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/480307
anaconda loader crashes when configuring a network interface
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/479707
rawhide anaconda vnc install failure
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/480308
No networking configured after rawhide kickstart install
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/480769
And we had one fairly random libvirt blocker caused by a change in
chkconfig:
libvirt default network not enabled at install time (chkconfig regression)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/480805
Alpha Freeze, Take 2
====================
Cole is working on new virt-manager and virtinst releases. Will we
make the freeze this time?
We didn't get the libvirt 0.6.0 release done this week, but maybe in
time for next Tuesday?
On the KVM side, we should aim to get a resolution either way for the
unsynchronized TSC issue:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/475598
Avi, Gerd, Glauber and Juan have all been actively looking at
this. Looks like we're close to a patch. But at this point, we need to
decide either to include the patch in the alpha or disable kvmclock
temporarily.
fedora-maint-list
=================
We created a fedora-maint-list to allow people to easily watch what's
going on with all virt related packages in Fedora. Sign up here:
http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-virt-maint/
and also add fedora-maint-list(a)redhat.com to your bugzilla watch list:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
If you want to filter these mails, try this:
Sender is bugzilla(a)redhat.com
X-Bugzilla-Reason is None
X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason contains fedora-virt-maint(a)redhat.com
That way you can keep them separate from mails sent because you were
directly cc-ed on a bug.
Tracker Bugs and Queries
========================
See this wiki page:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_bugs
We now have virt tracker bugs for F11:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=F11VirtTarget&hide_...
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=F11VirtBlocker&hide...
and also a bunch of pre-canned bugzilla queries for all the different
virt packages.
F11 Features
============
These features have been posted to the wiki:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtVNCAuth
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KVM_PCI_Device_Assignment
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KVM_and_QEMU_merge
More drafts are in progress.
Fedora 10 Kernel
================
2.6.28 is coming soon to F10:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg01302.html
An initial build is already in Koji if people want to give it some
early testing.
bugs
====
The page:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_bugs
has a bunch of bugzilla queries. I'll quote the number of open Fedora
virt bugs here from week to week to track progress.
DOOM-O-METER: 186 open bugs
KVM issues:
KVM running on 32-bit host on 64-bit CPU passes EM64T flag to guests
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/481274
Just filed, needs triaging
kvm/ kernel crash upon installation of guest
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/480779
MMU bug, Marcelo looking
Sound under KVM requires exclusive access to the sound device
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/477955
Warren built a fix, need to explore PA option
SDL graphics is wrongly decoding keycode symbols
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/478976
Patch needs sending upstream
Include kvm_stat for debugging
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/480942
Two netdev/slub related oops in 2.6.29:
virtio_net oops during rawhide guest install on rawhide host
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/480822
rtl8139 oops while installing rawhide/x86_64 guest on F-10/x86_64 host
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/480850
A good number of libvirt etc. bugs were triaged/closed this week, some
of the remaining interesting ones:
Running KVM guests as a normal user
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/481260
Lots involved here, will be split out into separate bugs
Virtual network won't work until restart
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/467687
aka. who's freaking loading /etc/sysctl.conf?
virt-install doesn't know to use virtio for RHEL5.3
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/477752
dnsmasq DNS returns 127.0.0.1 for lookup of host
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/470391
Xen pv_ops issues:
f10 x86_64 xen guests fail to boot on f8 host (NX issue)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/480880
anaconda installs the wrong kernel for i686 xen guests
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/470905
15 years, 3 months
Unable to install kvm paravirt guest
by Julian Sikorski
Hi,
I am trying to install i386 paravirt rawhide kvm guest (using xenner)
into a Fedora 10 x86_64 host. I use the following command:
virt-install --paravirt --os-type=linux
--location=http://ftp.ps.pl/pub/Linux/fedora-linux/development/i386/os/
--name=pararawhide-i386 --vcpus=1
--file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/pararawhide-i386.img --accelerate
--nonsparse --ram=512 --file-size=15
Unfortunately, anaconda fails when it is supposed to fetch install.img,
it says there was an error configuring the network connection. The log
is attached. Do you have any ideas what is wrong here?
Regards,
Julian
15 years, 3 months
Unable to install kvm paravirt guest
by Julian Sikorski
Hi,
I am trying to install i386 paravirt rawhide kvm guest (using xenner)
into a Fedora 10 x86_64 host. I use the following command:
virt-install --paravirt --os-type=linux
--location=http://ftp.ps.pl/pub/Linux/fedora-linux/development/i386/os/
--name=pararawhide-i386 --vcpus=1
--file=/var/lib/libvirt/images/pararawhide-i386.img --accelerate
--nonsparse --ram=512 --file-size=15
Unfortunately, anaconda fails when it is supposed to fetch install.img,
it says there was an error configuring the network connection. The log
is attached. Do you have any ideas what is wrong here?
Regards,
Julian
15 years, 3 months
xenner service not started automatically
by Julian Sikorski
Hi,
It seems that the xenner service is not started when you attempt to
install a paravirt guest. It took me a while to figure out that it needs
to be started manually. Is it possible to make that service get started
on demand? There is a bug on that, #462120.
Regards,
Julian
15 years, 3 months
xenner service not started automatically
by Julian Sikorski
Hi,
It seems that the xenner service is not started when you attempt to
install a paravirt guest. It took me a while to figure out that it needs
to be started manually. Is it possible to make that service get started
on demand? There is a bug on that, #462120.
Regards,
Julian
15 years, 3 months
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15 years, 3 months
Problem moving machine from Xen to KVM
by Ján ONDREJ (SAL)
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 02:42:07PM +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 15:29 +0100, Jan ONDREJ (SAL) wrote:
>
> > Unable to do success with installing virtio_pci on
> > 2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686.PAE but works well with 2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686.
> > May be there is something wrong with PAE kernel or with initrd.
>
> Please post the error messages to the fedora-virt(a)redhat.com list.
OK, doing here.
All my tryes to create an functional virtio initrd failed on kernel-PAE,
when system was booted as "ide" machine.
Boot success happened with kernel (non-PAE) and after boot I was able to
uninstall kernel-PAE and reinstall it. After this change there are all
required modules installed and kernel-PAE boot with virtio drivers (disk
and net).
More info in this thread:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-xen/2009-January/msg00052.html
SAL
15 years, 3 months
Re: [et-mgmt-tools] New virt-manager + virtinst releases end of week
by Mark McLoughlin
(replying on fedora-virt, since et-mgmt-tools isn't strictly a Fedora
list)
On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 12:17 -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I think it's a good time to push new releases for virt-manager and
> virtinst (well, it's actually overdue).
>
> If there are any changes or bugs you would like to see addressed, please
> raise them asap. Ideally I'd like to have any changes committed by
> friday, then wrap up and push the release over the weekend.
This is probably crazy talk, but the freeze for F11 Alpha is today if
you thought it was possible to do these releases sooner.
Cheers,
Mark.
15 years, 3 months
