Hey all,
In case you aren't subscribed to the virt@ list, here's what I just sent there. Though most of the info below pertains to KVM, I encourage all Xen users/devs to show up, so feel free to stick your names on the fedora wiki page. More virt and Fedora 18 testing is better for everyone :)
And as mentioned in Dario's earlier mail, check out his excellent xen focused page here:
http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Fedora_Test_Days
Thanks, Cole
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [fedora-virt] Fedora 18 Virt Test Day is Thurs Nov 1, we need you! Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:52:58 -0400 From: Cole Robinson crobinso@redhat.com To: Fedora Virt virt@lists.fedoraproject.org
Hey all,
The Fedora 18 Virt Test Day is this Thursday, November 1st. That's two days away! The test day landing page is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2012-11-01_Virtualization
If you're interested in trying out some new virt functionality, we've got step by step instructions for:
* Using snapshots to backup disk images of a live VM with no VM downtime * Assigning a physical USB3 device to your VM * Assign a local USB device to your VM, even if the VM is on a remote machine! * Setting disk IO bandwidth limits on your VM * Suspend and Hibernate your VMs * Enabling the PV EOI performance optimization for your VMs * Using kernel syscall filters (seccomp) to further secure your host against VM exploits (currently busted but we are working on a fix)
Of course, maybe you don't care about new features. We still need you! The test day is the perfect time to make sure your virt workflow is working fine on Fedora 18, as there will be several developers on hand to answer any questions, help with debugging, provide patches, etc. No requirement to run through test cases on the wiki, just show up and let us know what works (or breaks).
And to be clear, while it is greatly preferred that you have a physical machine running Fedora 18, participating in the test day does NOT require it: you can test the latest virt bits on Fedora 17 courtesy of the virt-preview repo. For more details, as well as easy instructions on updating to Fedora 18, see:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2012-11-01_Virtualization#What.27s_n...
If you plan on showing up to the test day, add your name to the participant list on the wiki, and on thursday, pop into #fedora-test-day on freenode and give us a shout!
Thanks, Cole _______________________________________________ virt mailing list virt@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/virt
On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 17:02 -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
In case you aren't subscribed to the virt@ list, here's what I just sent there. Though most of the info below pertains to KVM, I encourage all Xen users/devs to show up, so feel free to stick your names on the fedora wiki page. More virt and Fedora 18 testing is better for everyone :)
We definitely agree... To the point that we blogged about that: http://blog.xen.org/index.php/2012/10/31/fedora-18-virtualization-test-day/
And as mentioned in Dario's earlier mail, check out his excellent xen focused page here:
Thanks Cole! Just let me add that we also have a Xen Fedora LiveCD.
I just finished cooking it now, tested it, and it seems to be working!
If you decide to try it, it will bring you into a Fedora 18 Beta TC6 Dom0, with Xen 4.2.0 as hypervisor (as per F18 updates-testing repository).
I'm putting it here [*]: http://xenbits.xen.org/people/dariof/Live/Fedora/Virt-TestDay-Xen.iso
Go download it and enjoy being able to start creating VMs with Xen on Fedora without the need to install anything!!
Feel free to report to me (dario.faggioli@citrix.com) anything you think could be related to the LiveCD itself (rather than other kind of bugs, that you should report to the proper mailing-lists :-D).
Regards, Dario
[*] Just don't go there right now... Give it a couple of hours from the time I'm sending this e-mail. I'm uploading it there with my residential ADSL, which is quite of slow in that direction. :-(