f20 guest on centos5 xen host
by Bruno Postle
Hi, I'm having trouble installing a fedora f20 guest on a centos5
host, I previously had a working f16 guest, so I guess I want to
know if this is possible or not.
virt-install seems to work ok as before, but then the reboot fails
with this error:
Error starting domain: POST operation failed: xend_post: error from
xen daemon: (xend.err "Error creating domain: Boot loader didn't
return any data!")
I've tried formatting /boot as ext2 and ext3 with the same result,
now I'm out of ideas. Here is my virt-install command:
virt-install --paravirt --name honk --ram 2048 --disk \
path=/dev/VolGroup02/LogVol12 --vnc --location \
http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/20/Fedora/x86_64/os/
--
Bruno
9 years, 9 months
GPU Passthrough problem
by Eric Viseur
Hello everyone,
As many other before me, I'm having problems with GPU Passthrough. I'm
running Fedora 20 with kernel 3.13.3 and the packages from the virt-preview.
My configuration is a Dell OptiPlex 7010, equipped with a Core i5 3470 and
a Radeon HD7570 from Dell.
VT-d and vfio work fine for other devices, such as the audio controller,
but I can't seem to passthrough the graphic cards. Primary passthrough
simply fails, secondary passthrough with a Cirrus VGA gives me Error 10.
In both cases, I hear the GPU fan reacting when the VM boots, but then
nothing happens.
I tried blacklisting completely the i915 driver, as I can live without it.
This is for a project aimed at a seamless interaction with a Windows VM,
the Linux hypervisor doing background processing, hidden from the user.
Given my situation, what are my best next shots ?
Eric Viseur
Etudiant Ingénieur Civil Electricien
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9 years, 9 months
ANNOUNCE: virt-manager 1.0.0 released
by Cole Robinson
I'm happy to announce the release of virt-manager 1.0.0!
Our version numbers were starting to get awkward, and this release was
suitably featureful, so it felt like time to bump the major version. (And it's
trendy these days, right?).
virt-manager is a desktop application for managing KVM, Xen, and LXC
virtualization via libvirt.
The release 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-1.0.0....
This release includes:
- virt-manager: Snapshot support
- New tool virt-xml: Edit libvirt XML in one shot from the command line:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2014-January/msg01226.html
- Improved defaults: qcow2, USB2, host CPU model, guest agent channel, ...
- Introspect command line options like --disk=? or --network=help
- The virt-image tool will be removed before the next release, speak up
if you have a good reason not to remove it.
- virt-manager: Support arm vexpress VM creation
- virt-manager: Add guest memory usage graphs (Thorsten Behrens)
- virt-manager: UI for editing <filesystem> devices (Cédric Bosdonnat)
- Spice USB redirection support (Guannan Ren)
- <tpm> UI and command line support (Stefan Berger)
- <rng> UI and command line support (Giuseppe Scrivano)
- <panic> UI and command line support (Chen Hanxiao)
- <blkiotune> command line support (Chen Hanxiao)
- virt-manager: support for glusterfs storage pools (Giuseppe Scrivano)
- cli: New options --memory, --features, --clock, --metadata, --pm
- Greatly improve app responsiveness when connecting to remote hosts
- Lots of UI cleanup and improvements
Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release through testing,
bug reporting, submitting patches, and otherwise sending in feedback!
Thanks,
Cole
9 years, 9 months
About spicec deprecation
by Eric Viseur
Hello,
During F18 lifecycle, the spice-client (spicec) package got deprecated in
favor of virt-viewer.
I'm currently working on a project where one of the goals is to make the
virtualization part as invisible as possible : you boot the computer, get
served a splash screen with some processing going behind the scenes, and
reach a Windows virtual machine made as transparent as possible.
As GPU passthrough isn't always possible, Spice is a must for this. Spicec
had the enormous advantage of being fully hidable : if you start it through
a simple xinit, you get no toolbar, no possibility to leave full screen.
It makes the illusion very realistic and, more importantly, forbids the
user from leaving the environment without shutting the VM down (which is
handled, of course).
Currently I'm manually overriding package dependencies to install it (I
follow Fedora releases to get the latest virt packages), but I'm concerned
actual dependancies will one day come to disappear, and I might not be able
to take advantage of new SPICE features.
Is there any way I can reproduce this behavior with a still supported
applications ?
Best regards,
Eric Viseur
Etudiant Ingénieur Civil Electricien
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9 years, 9 months
F20 update conflicts with virt-preview Repo
by Jorge Fábregas
Hi,
I was about to update a F20 system when I recieved this error:
--> Running transaction check
---> Package libwsman1.x86_64 0:2.3.6-8.fc20 will be updated
--> Processing Dependency: libwsman_client.so.1()(64bit) for package:
libvirt-daemon-1.2.1-2.fc20.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libwsman_client.so.1()(64bit) for package:
libvirt-client-1.2.1-2.fc20.x86_64
---> Package libwsman1.x86_64 0:2.4.3-1.fc20 will be an update
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: libvirt-client-1.2.1-2.fc20.x86_64 (@fedora-virt-preview)
Requires: libwsman_client.so.1()(64bit)
Removing: libwsman1-2.3.6-8.fc20.x86_64 (installed)
libwsman_client.so.1()(64bit)
Updated By: libwsman1-2.4.3-1.fc20.x86_64 (updates)
~libwsman_client.so.2()(64bit)
Error: Package: libvirt-daemon-1.2.1-2.fc20.x86_64 (@fedora-virt-preview)
Requires: libwsman_client.so.1()(64bit)
Removing: libwsman1-2.3.6-8.fc20.x86_64 (installed)
libwsman_client.so.1()(64bit)
Updated By: libwsman1-2.4.3-1.fc20.x86_64 (updates)
~libwsman_client.so.2()(64bit)
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
My system has libwsman1-2.3.6-8.fc20.x86_64 and there's an update for
libwsman1-2.4.3-1.fc20.x86_64 (from @updates) but it conflicts with the
requirements of libvirt-daemon & libvirt-client installed via
@fedora-virt-preview. This is what I understand so far. Can anyone
reproduce this?
Thanks,
Jorge
9 years, 9 months
Fedora virt status January 2014
by Cole Robinson
Hey all, here are some virt related status bits for January.
Fedora 21
=========
Typically we would be into the next Fedora cycle by now, but big changes are
be discussed in Fedora land which is pushing the next schedule out. Word is
that F21 won't be out until at least August:
http://borntobeopen.blogspot.com/2014/01/wheres-fedora-21-schedule.html
The big changes are all under the umbrella of Fedora.next:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora.next
Working groups have been setup to define different 'products' for cloud,
server, and workstation/desktop use cases. PRDs and charters are being
written. But right now it's not entirely clear what the end result is going to
look like. So things are still quite in flux.
Libvirt 1.2.1 released
======================
Libvirt 1.2.1 was released on January 16th. Major changes include:
* Support for qemu's pvpanic device
* Event support for virtual networks
* CPU pinning support for libxml
* Several CVE fixes
Full changelog is here:
http://libvirt.org/news.html
Packages available in rawhide and fedora-virt-preview
Bug stats
=========
Total bugs on 2014-01-05 : 166
Total bugs on 2014-02-01 : 177
The Fedora 18 EOL cleanup should have been run by now, but some people are
tweaking the process a bit:
https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/1198
By release:
* Fedora 18 : 6
* Fedora 19 : 73
* Fedora 20 : 81
* Fedora rawhide : 17
By package:
* edk2 : 1
* gtk-vnc : 1
* ipxe : 5
* libguestfs : 9
* libosinfo : 1
* libvirt : 42
* libvirt-sandbox : 9
* netcf : 6
* openbios : 1
* qemu : 26
* seabios : 1
* spice : 12
* spice-gtk : 5
* spice-vdagent : 2
* virt-dmesg : 1
* virt-manager : 19
* virt-viewer : 7
* virt-what : 2
* virtio-win : 2
* xen : 12
* xorg-x11-drv-qxl : 13
By status:
* ASSIGNED : 9
* MODIFIED : 1
* NEW : 145
* ON_QA : 2
* POST : 20
Bugs of note
============
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1031696
libvirt-guests.service is broken in F20
Although it isn't documented in that bug, systemd devs have added some
infrastructure upstream that libvirt can use to fix things. Will take
time though...
Thanks,
Cole
9 years, 10 months
"You Are Here" on Snapshots
by Jorge Fábregas
Hello again,
Another question with internal snapshots. I can see the snapshot tree with:
virsh snapshot-list Win7vm --tree
However, I would like to know from what previous snapshot I'm currently
running off. Something like the "You are here" that VMware shows. Is
there a way to find that out?
Thanks,
Jorge
9 years, 10 months
