virt September 2012

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xen 4.2 and libvirt
by M A Young 31 Oct '12

31 Oct '12

I would like to update the xen version on rawhide and probably also Fedora 18 to xen 4.2.0 , however libvirt links against some xen libraries whose versions have changed in xen 4.2 and when I looked a few months ago it seemed that libvirt didn't support the newer library versions. Does anyone know what the current support status of libvirt for xen 4.2 is, and what work might be going on (if necessary) to add it? Michael Young

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No networking?
by Tom Horsley 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

I'm on fedora 17 and I just started trying to install a fedora 17 virtual machine where I can screw around with stuff without blowing up my actual machine. I get to step 5 of 5 in the New VM wizard of virt manager and it tells me "No networking" and has a little warning triangle icon. Whyfor? All my existing virtual machines use one of the two bridge devices I have, but it doesn't seem to see the bridges? It used to see them in earlier versions of virt-manager. Is this a bug or some kind of new feature that requires me to go to infinite pains to make virt-manager aware of the bridges for my convenience? I'll try to do the install and manually tweak the xml later to see if I can add the bridge...

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Fedora 18 virt test day rescheduled to Nov 01
by Cole Robinson 01 Oct '12

01 Oct '12

Hi all, The Fedora 18 virtualization test day has been moved to Thursday November 01. Given the 3 weeks of F18 delay, we readjusted the date to once again put us after the Beta, so we should have a solid base for testing. The (in progress) landing page for the test day is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2012-11-01_Virtualization So if think you can scrounge up a few cycles that day to try out F18 and all the virt goodness, please mark your calendars! Thanks, Cole

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close VM display => qemu-kvm goes to 100%
by Tom Horsley 26 Sep '12

26 Sep '12

I was running updates on my new fedora 17 KVM, so I figured it would take a while and I closed virt-manager. The qemu-kvm process for the virtual machine had been running at maybe 5 or 10 percent of the cpu, as soon as I closed the windows, it went to 100%. When I opened virt-manager again and opened the VM, the cpu dropped back down to 5 or 10%. It did choose to install the VM with spice as the display. Is this behavior somehow related to spice? Or maybe the display drive inside the VM (that is one of the thing which is probably getting an update now).

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[Xen-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Xen 4.2 released!
by Pasi Kärkkäinen 17 Sep '12

17 Sep '12

----- Forwarded message from Keir Fraser <keir(a)xen.org> ----- From: Keir Fraser <keir(a)xen.org> To: xen-devel(a)lists.xen.org Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:34:00 +0100 Subject: [Xen-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Xen 4.2 released! The Xen team is pleased to announce the release of Xen 4.2. The result of *18 months* of development, new features include: * Paging/sharing improvements for high-density VM environments (eg. VDI) * Enhancements to PV-HVM guest performance * Improved memaccess (guest introspection) support * EFI boot support, replacing the legacy BIOS boot environment * Improved RAS support * XL as the default toolstack; XEND officially deprecated * Upstream QEMU support, with its up-to-date feature list Detailed release notes, including a more extensive feature list: http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_4.2_Release_Notes To download tarballs: http://xen.org/download/index_4.2.0.html Or the Mercurial source repository (tag 'RELEASE-4.2.0'): http://xenbits.xen.org/hg/staging/xen-4.2-testing.hg And the announcement on the Xen blog: http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2012/09/17/xen-4-2-0-released/ Thanks to the many people who have contributed to this release! Regards, The Xen Team _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel(a)lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel ----- End forwarded message -----

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Re: [fedora-virt] [vdsm] libvirt 0.10.0 dependency issue
by Dan Kenigsberg 12 Sep '12

12 Sep '12

On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 12:35:00PM +0300, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: > On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 10:10:17PM +0800, Royce Lv wrote: > > Guys, > > Because vdsm is depend on a patch in libvirt 0.10.0, But libvirt > > 0.10.0 is not available for fc17. You can download the rpm > > here:http://libvirt.org/sources/ > > Other packages can be found with yum. > > Sorry for the inconvenience I've brought. > > Yeah, this unfortunate consequece was not foreseen by your reviewer. > Shame on him. On the mean while, I've built libvirt-0.10.1-2 for my F16 > (yes, I'm backward) and put it in http://danken.fedorapeople.org/f16/ > I've moved it around under http://danken.fedorapeople.org/my-virt-preview, and added f17, but then realised, that we should better request whomever responsible on fedora-virt-preview to update libvirt under http://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virt-preview/ Would the owner be kind to do this? Regards, Dan.

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Problem with mouse (cursor) in VM
by John W. Himpel 05 Sep '12

05 Sep '12

Good evening, I am running F18 inside a VM (KVM). The base OS is a current F17. I am using the qxl video driver. It seems the mouse driver is confused about the coordinates of the cursor as it continually attempts to reduce the application into the "Activities" mode (show the panel with the applications drawn smaller). I also have a lot of problems with drag 'n drop. I'm unsure what component to use when filing an entry in bugzilla. Thanks. John

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Fedora virt status August 2012
by Cole Robinson 03 Sep '12

03 Sep '12

Howdy all, here are some Fedora virt status bits for August. Fedora 18 ========= Fedora 18 has slipped a few weeks due to ongoing trouble with some blocker bugs that release engineering wants fixed before the alpha goes out: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2012-August/000970.… The current F18 schedule: Sep 11: Alpha release Oct 02: Beta change deadline Oct 04: Virtualization Test Day Oct 16: Beta Release Nov 05: Final Change Deadline Nov 20: GA Release Unfortunately this means the scheduled virt test day is no longer after the beta release, but thankfully still after the beta change deadline. QEMU 1.2 Release Approaching ============================ QEMU is moving towards the 1.2 release, currently scheduled for this Wednesday, September 5th: http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/1.2 If you want a sneak peak at what will eventually be the 1.2 changelog, see: http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/Next Currently QEMU 1.2 rc1 is available in rawhide and F18. libvirt 0.10 release ==================== On August 29th, libvirt 0.10.0 was released! The release highlights: - agent: add qemuAgentArbitraryCommand() for general qemu agent command - Introduce virDomainPinEmulator and virDomainGetEmulatorPinInfo functions - network: use firewalld instead of iptables, when available - network: make network driver vlan-aware - esx: Implement network driver - driver for parallels hypervisor - Various LXC improvements - Add virDomainGetHostname However there were a few serious issues in the release, so a 0.10.1 release followed soon after with several important bug fixes: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-August/msg01848.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-August/msg02028.html 0.10.1 is currently in rawhide. F18 has 0.10.0 rc2, and will have 0.10.1 fairly soon, once an updated netcf makes it to F18 stable. Reviving QEMU PPC, Sparc ======================== Following the prerequisite work done in July, qemu-system-sparc and qemu-system-ppc packages are now available in F18 and rawhide. See the package list here: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=350988 Additionally, KVM is now enabled for all targets that support it. This doesn't change anything for the default fedora packages, but it allows the Fedora PPC folks to get a KVM enabled qemu-system-ppc in their package builds. Bug stats ========= Bug count on Aug 02 2012: 208 Bug count on Sep 03 2012: 225 Another decent bump, with over half in libvirt. But there are definitely some easy close candidates and a handful sitting in POST waiting for a build. By release: * Fedora 16 : 69 * Fedora 17 : 111 * Fedora 18 : 11 * Fedora rawhide : 34 By package: * gnome-boxes : 12 * gtk-vnc : 4 * ipxe : 2 * kvm : 1 * libguestfs : 6 * libosinfo : 1 * libvirt : 56 * libvirt-cim : 3 * libvirt-qmf : 1 * libvirt-sandbox : 3 * netcf : 4 * python-virtinst : 4 * qemu : 60 * sgabios : 1 * spice-gtk : 6 * spice-vdagent : 2 * usbredir : 1 * virt-dmesg : 1 * virt-manager : 18 * virt-v2v : 3 * virt-viewer : 8 * virt-what : 2 * xen : 11 * xorg-x11-drv-cirrus: 3 * xorg-x11-drv-qxl : 12 Bugs of note ============ * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853408 libguestfs tickling a qemu 1.2rc1 crash in character device handling Rich tracked down a good amount of info but no fix available yet. Thanks, Cole

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