[fedora-virt] [Xen-devel] Re: Virtualization Test Day for F16 and Xen

Pasi Kärkkäinen pasik at iki.fi
Wed Sep 14 14:45:39 UTC 2011


On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:25:23AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 02:25:52PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 01:33:54AM +0300, Myroslav Opyr wrote:
> > >    Hi,
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > >    Virtualization Test day is expected to be on September 15th this year
> > >    ([1]https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/232).
> 
> Cool.
> > >
> > 
> > So that's tomorrow!
> > 
> > Luckily Xen Hackathon (@Munich) event is just happening,
> > so hopefully we can get some more testing from people in that event.
> > 
> > >    We are willing to help test
> > >    [2]http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvopsDom0 but find too little
> > >    information about test methods
> 
> It really ought to be parallel to what you would do with KVM/QEMU. Basically
> the same steps - but I am not sure how well does libvirt work with xm/xl nowadays.
> Or the virt-manager - but it suppose to interact with magically.
> 

libvirt support for xm/xend *should* work, and there's also the libvirt libxl driver
written by Jim Fehlig from Novell/SUSE.


> Is there a KVM/QEMU/libvirt help test Wiki? I saw this:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Getting_started_with_virtualization
> and it kind of parallels it, albeit I didn't see anything about setting the network
> which sometimes is the biggest pain point:
> 
> http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=268427
> 

When you install libvirt it'll automatically create/start a bridge called "virbr0",
which is an host-internal bridge with "dnsmasq" running and configured to provide dhcp server
with private ip range, dns relay and NAT on that bridge.

So that's good enough for trying some VMs or running VM netboot installs.


> 
> > >    ([3]https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/ticket/219). It takes time for us
> > >    to setup test environment, and would be good to have some info in advance.
> 
> 
> There are known bugs in FC15/FC16 that have been filled some time ago that
> folks will sadly run into: 728775, 658387  and 668063
> 
> Fortunatly the bugs have patches attached and the files to be modified are shell scripts.
> 

Yep, links here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728775
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=658387
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=668063


-- Pasi


> > >    Regards,
> > >
> > 
> > I just added some Xen related mailinglists to the CC list,
> > so we can get more feedback.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > -- Pasi
> > 
> > 
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