Fedora virt status

[Justin Forbes]

Fedora 14
- We have 101 open bugs, 5 of which have fixes in awaiting updates.
- 1 bug has been closed in the last week

Fedora 15
- Release tomorrow!
- We have 36 open bugs 2 of which have fixes in awaiting updates.
- 6 bugs have been closed in the last week
- GA images have been cleared for release
- Upcoming Dates of importance:
  2011-05-24  Fedora 15 Final Release

Fedora 16
 It is time to start planning for the Fedora 16 release.  What features are
 going to be proposed?  What does the community want to see from Fedora 16
 virtualiation?

 == Updates Needing review ==
  The following packages are in updates-testing and need review and karma as
  appropriate:

  F14:
  - libguestfs-1.8.7-1.fc14
    New stable version 1.8.7 with several small bugfixes.

  F15:
  There are no virt packages in updates-testing at this time.

  == 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: ==
  - 700560 F15 virt-manager gui locks/freezes in the default storage pool
    There is a bug which states that sym-linked storage pools will lock
    virt-manager, and now reports that the default storage pool does as well.

  - 674530 Change CDROM of guest, new CD is truncated to the size of the old
    Installing a very old guest which requires several CDs, the CD size is
    truncated to the size of the first CD.  This issue has been resolved
    upstream and will be in the next qemu update.

  - 693530 Qemu does the wrong thing with Cache=None and looks like corruption
    btrfs complains about corruption when Windows guests do certain types of
    writes with cache=none. This is really a btrfs issue, qemu behaves as
    expected.

[Tom Horsley]

On Mon, 23 May 2011 08:21:40 -0500
Justin M. Forbes wrote:

>  What does the community want to see from Fedora 16
>   virtualiation? 
3D qxl/spice?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 08:21:40AM -0500, Justin M. Forbes wrote:
>  Fedora 16
>   It is time to start planning for the Fedora 16 release.  What features are
>   going to be proposed?  What does the community want to see from Fedora 16
>   virtualiation? 
libguestfs and virt-v2v users: Is there anything we should aim for in
libguestfs / virt-v2v in the Fedora 16 timeframe?

Off the top of my head:

 - inspection stuff in virt-manager

   https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2011/04/21/inspection-in-virt-manager-4/

 - virt-clone fixed

   https://www.redhat.com/archives/virt-tools-list/2011-May/msg00019.html

 - guests by default are given libguestfs live access (guestfish --live etc)

   http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#attaching_to_running_daemons

 - virt-p2v with the couple of outstanding issues fixed

I'm not sure that any of these are really worthy of a Fedora feature
though.

Rich.

-- 
Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines.  Supports shell scripting,
bindings from many languages.  http://libguestfs.org

[Scott Dowdle]

Richard,

----- Original Message -----
>  libguestfs and virt-v2v users: Is there anything we should aim for
> in
>  libguestfs / virt-v2v in the Fedora 16 timeframe? 
I know you have been working on a GUI for libguestfs.  It would be nice to have a
reasonably functional GUI for libguestfs in Fedora 16.

TYL,
-- 
Scott Dowdle
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Belgrade, MT 59714
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[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 06:35:17PM -0400, Scott Dowdle wrote:
>  Richard,
>  
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  > libguestfs and virt-v2v users: Is there anything we should aim for in
>  > libguestfs / virt-v2v in the Fedora 16 timeframe?
>  
>  I know you have been working on a GUI for libguestfs.  It would be nice to have a
> reasonably functional GUI for libguestfs in Fedora 16.
>   
I'm looking for a maintainer for guestfs-browser ...

http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/guestfs-browser/

Rich.

-- 
Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones
New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows
programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 08:21:40AM -0500, Justin M. Forbes wrote:
>  
>  Fedora 16
>   It is time to start planning for the Fedora 16 release.  What features are
>   going to be proposed?  What does the community want to see from Fedora 16
>   virtualiation?
>   
Xen dom0 support out-of-the-box with the vanilla fedora kernel! 

Mainline Linux (2.6.40-rcX) already contains the "last missing bit",
which is the xen-blkback backend block device driver.

Linux 2.6.39 added xen-netback driver, and the 'xen dom0 core' was merged in
2.6.37.
More info/changelog here: http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/XenParavirtOps

-- Pasi