Re: [fedora-virt] Routing to guests
by Robert Thiem
> From: Philip Rhoades
> I can ssh from/to the host/guest OK but how do I set up a route (or
> whatever is necessary) so that another machine:
> eth0: 192.168.0.12
> can ssh to the guest? - "ssh 192.168.122.68" gives "no route to host" -
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/virtualization-guide/f12/en-US/html/ but
> the problem does not seem to be covered there.
Alexander is correct in saying that bridging would allow you to do that.
There are two networking discussed in the guide.
The first is a NAT (network address translation), in which the guests are
given "private" ip addresses and any outbound traffic appears to be coming
from the host machine's IP address. This is the same as the setup on your
ADSL router where the internal network machines get addresses of
192.168.x.x but the internet sees your requests as coming from the IP
address of your router.
There should be lots of documentation in linux firewalling guides under
sections on NAT (or possibly called IP Masquerading in some). Have a look
at these for information on port forwarding to reveal services
inside the virtual (such as ssh).
The other option is bridging. This shares the physical network interface
of the host with the guest. In this case the VM acts as though it's a
machine plugged into the same subnet as the host, its services are
accessible like those of the host and it's as vulnerable to attack as the
host.
Robert
11 years, 4 months
windows 7 guest and acpi/apic with virt-preview
by Gianluca Cecchi
hello,
using Fedora 14 and virt-preview.
I notice that my windows 7 guest 32bit has neither acpi nor apic enabled.
trying to enable one of them in virt-manager it gets automatically
reset and in virt-manager.log I get:
[Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:13:54 virt-manager 17300] DEBUG
(libvirtobject:144) Redefine requested, but XML didn't change!
Is there any reason, such as not supported and automatically black
listed in any way... or a bug?
At the moment I have 3 guests: w2k3, w7 and centos 5 and this problem
is present for all of them...
I noticed this because after half an hour of inactivity my windows 7
went in black screen and no other way than powering off...
I saw that by default sleep was enabled after 30 minutes. At first I'm
disabling it, but I think that actually the problem of this freeze
could depend by acpi not enabled...
so I discovered the problem
virt-manager-0.8.6-1.fc14.noarch
libvirt-0.8.8-2.fc14.x86_64
Connecting an iso cd or changing network device type or other things
works ok. it seems only these two settings....
Gianluca
12 years, 2 months
Fedora Virt status
by Justin Forbes
Fedora 14
- We have 91 open bugs, 10 of which have fixes in awaiting updates.
- 7 bugs have been closed in the last week
Fedora 15
- Upcoming Deadlines:
2011-03-29 Software Translation Deadline
2011-04-05 Beta Change Deadline Features 100% Complete
2011-04-19 Beta Release
2011-05-09 Final Change Deadline
2011-05-10 Compose 'Final' RC
2011-05-24 Fedora 15 Final Release
- Virtualization Test Day is coming up on Thursday, April 14th. Please
mark your calendars, and join us for testing and bug hunting. The more
we can uncover before release, the better off we are.
- There are currently 56 bugs open against rawhide/F15.
== Updates Needing review ==
The following packages are in updates-testing and need review and karma as
appropriate:
F13:
- libvirt-0.8.2-3.fc13
fix a lack of API check on read-only connections this build fix one crash in
the the error handling fix a lack of API check on read-only connections
F14:
- libvirt-0.8.3-6.fc14
fix a lack of API check on read-only connections this build fix one crash in
the the error handling fix a lack of API check on read-only connections
== Virt Preview Repository ==
The virt-preview repository is now active for F14 users wishing to run the
latest F15 virt packages on their stable F14 systems. F13 virt-preview users
will still get the latest F14 packages. For details on how to run enable
virt-preview, please see:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Virtualization_Preview_Repository
== Bugs of importance: ==
- 679179 Openbios-ppc subpackage disappeared
It has been decided to drop the qemu-system-ppc and qemu-system-sparc as they
offer limited use with modern linux systems
- 681220 Virtual machines using the qxl driver crash
This has been fixed and updates are available in F15 and F14 virt-preview
12 years, 2 months
[Xen-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Xen 4.1 released!
by Pasi Kärkkäinen
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Cc:
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:11:53 +0000
Subject: [Xen-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Xen 4.1 released!
The Xen team is pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.1.
The result of nearly 12 months of development, new features include:
* A re-architected and improved XL toolstack replacing XM/XEND
* Prototype credit2 scheduler designed for latency-sensitive workloads and
very large systems.
* CPU Pools for advanced partitioning.
* Support for large systems (>255 processors)
* Support for x86 Advanced Vector eXtension (AVX).
* New Memory Access API enabling integration of 3rd party security
solutions into Xen virtualized environments.
* Many IOMMU fixes (both Intel VT-d IOMMU and AMD IOMMU).
* Many toolstack and buildsystem fixes for Linux and NetBSD hosts.
* Thirdparty libs: libvirt driver for libxl has been merged to upstream
libvirt.
* HVM guest PXE boot enhancements, replacing gPXE with iPXE.
* Even better stability through our new automated regression tests.
Detailed release notes, including a more extensive feature list:
http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/Xen4.1
To download tarballs:
http://xen.org/products/xen_source.html
Or the Mercurial source repository (tag 'RELEASE-4.1.0'):
http://xenbits.xen.org/xen-unstable.hg
And the announcement on the Xen blog:
http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2011/03/25/xen-4-1-releases/
Thanks to the many people who have contributed to this release!
Regards,
The Xen Team
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http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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12 years, 2 months
ANNOUNCE: virt-manager 0.8.7 and virtinst 0.500.6 released
by Cole Robinson
I'm happy to announce two new releases:
virt-manager 0.8.7: virt-manager is a desktop application for managing
KVM and Xen virtual machines via libvirt.
virtinst 0.500.6: virtinst is a collection of command line tools for
provisioning libvirt virtual machines, including virt-install and
virt-clone.
The releases can be downloaded from:
http://virt-manager.org/download.html
The direct download links are:
http://virt-manager.org/download/sources/virt-manager/virt-manager-0.8.7....
http://virt-manager.org/download/sources/virtinst/virtinst-0.500.6.tar.gz
Here are the highlights for the past 2 releases (since I neglected to
send out a release announcement for the previous round :) )
The virt-manager release includes:
virt-manager 0.8.7:
- Allow renaming an offline VM
- Spice password support (Marc-André Lureau)
- Allow editting NIC <virtualport> settings (Gerhard Stenzel)
- Allow enabling/disabling individual CPU features
- Allow easily changing graphics type between VNC and SPICE for existing
VM
- Allow easily changing network source device for existing VM
virt-manager 0.8.6:
- SPICE support (requires spice-gtk) (Marc-André Lureau)
- Option to configure CPU model
- Option to configure CPU topology
- Save and migration cancellation (Wen Congyang)
- Save and migration progress reporting
- Option to enable bios boot menu
- Option to configure direct kernel/initrd boot
virtinst 0.500.6:
- virt-install: --graphics spice now enables spicevmc and qxl
- virt-install: New --disk parameter io=native|threads
virtinst 0.500.5:
- New virt-install --cpu option for configuring CPU model/features
- virt-install --vcpus option can not specify topology and maxvcpus
- New virt-install --graphics option to unify --vnc, --sdl, spice config
- New virt-install --print-xml option to skip install and print XML
Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release through testing,
bug reporting, submitting patches, and otherwise sending in feedback!
Thanks,
Cole
12 years, 2 months
xen updated to xen-4.1.0
by M A Young
I have just built of xen-4.1.0-rc8 on Rawhide and Fedora 15. I don't
believe this update from xen-4.0.1 will affect the virt tools, but please
let me know if there are problems.
Michael Young
12 years, 2 months
spice and qemu 0.14
by Gianluca Cecchi
Is there any ETA for spice working again with qemu 0.14?
Thanks,
Gianluca
12 years, 2 months
virt-manager with spice support
by Gianluca Cecchi
On Wed Feb 16 08:04:49 UTC 2011 Avi Alkalay wrote:
> After migrating to QEMU 0.14, my Windows 7 VM booted recognizing and
> installing new HW. But none was a QXL device even if virt-manager defines a
> qxl device and I can confirm qemu-kvm is being called with '-vga qxl'.
> Inside the VM there is only a plain 'Standard VGA Graphics Adapter'. I also
> tried to manually install the QXL driver via the qxl.inf on this W7 VM with
> no success. Windows shows no manufacturer (and thus no further action) when
> qxl.inf file is selected.
>
> On the other hand, I defined a spice display via virt-manager and I can
> successfully connect to the VM console using spicy.
I got this too and win7 worked with spice display and access via spicec.
To force apply qlx.inf I had to:
device manager -> standard vga graphics adapter -> driver -> update driver
browse my computer for driver software
You have two options
a) search for driver software in this location -> you can browse where
you have the qxl.inf but it says that the driver is up to date and you
cannot force it
and you see vgapnp.sys as the driver used
b) let me pick from a list
you get the "have disk..." option, you select "display adapters" as
hardware type, and when you specify qxl.inf you get the warning about
not being signed
but it installs apparently ok and win7 asks you to restart
>From this point you are unable to arrive at login prompt. you get a
shut off after the black "starting windows" coloured screen
Next start there is the option to repair or to start normally.... and
the latter always goes to a shutoff of the vm.
If I reset video model as vga and then restart, win7 is able to boot
normally again, as a standard vga grpahics adapter applying vgapnp.sys
Gianluca
12 years, 2 months
info on mingw32-spice-protocol
by Gianluca Cecchi
hello,
I cannot find mingw32-spice-protocol rpm neither in standard repo for
F14 nor in virt-preview repo...
Where can I get it or tips to create an rpm for it for my F14 with virt-preview?
So something like mingw32-spice-protocol-0.8.xxx...
Thanks in advance,
Gianluca
12 years, 2 months
Host mouse pointer not hiding
by Ron Yorston
Since upgrading from Fedora 13 to 14 last week I've had an annoying
problem with virt-manager. When I click in a guest virtual machine
console window to get it to grab the mouse the host mouse pointer no
longer hides, so I have two mouse pointers running around the display.
Clearly something is making an effort to change the host mouse pointer
because it switches from the default arrow to the chunky cross that was
the default in previous centuries.
I've tried the F14 Virtualization Preview Repository. This has the
same issue with VNC but not SPICE.
I had a look in bugzilla but couldn't spot anything relevant. How can
I track down what's going on here? I can imagine the problem being in
any of a number of components: virt-manager, VNC, the X driver
(xort-x11-drv-intel, in my case).
Ron
12 years, 2 months
