Fedora Weekly News 182
Pascal Calarco
pcalarco at nd.edu
Mon Jun 29 16:23:47 UTC 2009
* 1 Fedora Weekly News Issue 182
o 1.1 Announcements
+ 1.1.1 Fedora Elections
+ 1.1.2 Fedora 12 (Constantine)
+ 1.1.3 Upcoming Events
o 1.2 Planet Fedora
+ 1.2.1 General
+ 1.2.2 FUDCon
o 1.3 Ambassadors
+ 1.3.1 Release event in Naples
+ 1.3.2 Get the word out about your F11 event
o 1.4 QualityAssurance
+ 1.4.1 Test Days
+ 1.4.2 Weekly meetings
+ 1.4.3 Test Day shepherding SOP draft
+ 1.4.4 Improvement of debugging procedure pages
o 1.5 Artwork
+ 1.5.1 Theming Constantine
o 1.6 Security Advisories
+ 1.6.1 Fedora 11 Security Advisories
+ 1.6.2 Fedora 10 Security Advisories
+ 1.6.3 Fedora 9 Security Advisories
o 1.7 Virtualization
+ 1.7.1 Enterprise Management Tools List
# 1.7.1.1 Remote virt-manager VM Wizard
+ 1.7.2 Fedora Virtualization List
# 1.7.2.1 F12 Feature: Host Information
# 1.7.2.2 libguestfs Super-minimized Appliance
# 1.7.2.3 A guest fish in the pipes
+ 1.7.3 Libvirt List
# 1.7.3.1 Safe PCI Device Passthrough
# 1.7.3.2 VMware ESX driver status update
- Fedora Weekly News Issue 182 -
Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 182[1] for the week ending June 28,
2009.
Here are a few highlights from this week's issue. By request, we've
returned to including the contents at the top of the issue. Please let
us know what you think! Announcements starts us off with updates on
recent Fedora elections. Hot on the heels of the release of Fedora 11,
the codename for Fedora 12 has already been chosen -- read inside for
details. From the Fedora Planet, lots of great updates from the recent
FUDCon in Berlin, as well as many updates from Fedora contributors. In
Ambassador news, details from the recent Fedora 11 launch party from the
NaLUG (Napoli GNU/Linux Users Group). In Quality Assurance news, many
updates on Fedora 12 development, including discussion of improving
debugging procedure pages, rawhide acceptance plan, bugzapper updates,
and much more. Much interesting discussion in the Design beat this week
on thinking around themes for Fedora 12 based on the release name. In
Security Advisories, we're brought up to date with this week's software
patches for Fedora 9, 10 and 11. This week's issue rounds out with
updates from virtualization activities, with detail work on a libguestfs
'Super-minimized Appliance', VMWare ESX driver status, and much more! Enjoy!
If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see
our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list at redhat.com
FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson
1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue182
2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join
-- Announcements --
In this section, we cover announcements from the Fedora Project[1] [2] [3].
Contributing Writer: Max Spevack
1. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/
2. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/
3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events
--- Fedora Elections ---
Tom Callaway, Mike McGrath, and Dennis Gilmore were elected to the
Fedora Board[1].
Bill Nottingham, Seth Vidal, Kevin Fenzi, Kevin Kofler, and Dennis
Gilmore were elected[2] to the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee.
1. ↑
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-June/msg00014.html
2. ↑
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-June/msg00015.html
--- Fedora 12 (Constantine) ---
The code name for Fedora 12 is "Constantine"[1].
1. ↑
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-June/msg00017.html
--- Upcoming Events ---
Consider attending or volunteering at an event near you!
* North America (NA)[1]
* Central & South America (LATAM)[2]
* Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3]
* India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4]
1. ↑
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29
2. ↑
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_2
3. ↑
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_3
4. ↑
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29_4
-- Planet Fedora --
In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora[1] - an
aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide.
Contributing Writer: Adam Batkin
1. ↑ http://planet.fedoraproject.org
--- General ---
Joseph Smidt requested[1] that all Linux distributions report bugs
upstream: "Now, assuming each major Linux distribution has hundreds of
bugs where the bug triager knows it is an issue with upstream but fails
to report it, if all these bugs would get reported I am sure an extra
100 bugs will get fixed over the next six months because of simple
things like this."
Mel Chua packaged[2] his first RPM, making notes along the way of where
documentation was lacking: "I’m actually quite impressed by how simple
the process is, and how helpful the resources are - however, my baseline
for “easy process!” is “it’s better than several weeks of blindly trying
to install Linux for the first time via stacks of floppies in 2001!” so
just because it’s “good enough” doesn’t mean it’s as good as it could be.
How can we improve this experience?"
Jeff Sheltren was interviewed[3] for the FLOSS Weekly podcast.
Dan Williams showed off[4] how easy it is to connect to a mobile
broadband connection using NetworkManager. In a later post, he
described[5] the differences between NetworkManager and ConnMan.
John Palmier attended[6] the Open Video Conference[7]. "The web was
built and exploded around the concept of open technology. Let’s continue
to make sure this is the case going forward. The last thing we want is
the web to become the domain of a few, with creativity being stifled by
restrictions in the non-open parts of the stack."
Adam Jackson explained[8] how computers (try to) identify the
capabilities (resolutions, refresh rates, etc...) of monitors by
following the EDID standard. And a new partially-compatible standard,
DisplayID that is set to replace EDID.
Jack Aboutboul announced[9] Project FooBar. While still in the early
stages, there are 5 main goals: "Centralization of Content, well
scheduled, recurring and prepared content, design which is consistent
with the philosophy of the Design team, standardized "official" feeds
for distribution of different forms of content, mechanisms for
localization and sharing the media with press or on social news sites."
Matthew Garrett complained[10] about the lack of openness at Intel.
While some parts of the company seem committed to Linux and Open Source,
other parts (notably EFI and Poulsbo) don't always integrate as nicely
with Linux as some might prefer.
Adrian Reber analyzed[11] the Fedora mirror server traffic, for the few
days following the Leonidas release. Pretty graphs ensued.
Aaron S. Hawley compared[12] cars to software (though he is certainly
not the first to do so) by quoting a post that described the ability to
take apart, modify and maintain one's own car, despite the fact that
when it comes to software, often that ability is missing.
Aaron also posted[13] a piece about "How the [IT] culture is hostile to
women". See also: FUDCon Attendee Photo[14].
Dave Malcolm wondered[15] where the word "codebase" came from.
Joshua Wulf wrote[16] about the challenges involved with "Neologisms and
Localization". Is "Parameterized" a word?
James Morris described[17] some of the upcoming changes to the security
subsystem in kernel 2.6.30.
1. ↑
http://californiaquantum.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/please-report-bugs-upstream/
2. ↑
http://blog.melchua.com/2009/06/21/n00bthoughts-producing-my-first-rpm/
3. ↑ http://sheltren.com/flossweekly
4. ↑
http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2009/06/22/mobile-broadband-assistant-makes-it-easy/
5. ↑ http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2009/06/25/networkmanager-and-connman/
6. ↑
http://www.j5live.com/2009/06/22/open-video-conference-an-amazing-step-forward/
7. ↑ http://openvideoconference.org/
8. ↑ http://ajaxxx.livejournal.com/61607.html
9. ↑
http://jaboutboul.blogspot.com/2009/06/fedora-marketing-tng-project-foobar.html
10. ↑ http://mjg59.livejournal.com/111853.html
11. ↑ http://lisas.de/~adrian/?p=548
12. ↑ http://aaronhawley.livejournal.com/24759.html
13. ↑ http://aaronhawley.livejournal.com/25025.html
14. ↑ http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/06/we-are-fedora.html
15. ↑ http://dmalcolm.livejournal.com/3271.html
16. ↑
http://fossdocs.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/neologisms-and-localization/
17. ↑ http://james-morris.livejournal.com/42541.html
--- FUDCon ---
Here are a few randomly selected posts (that mostly contain nice photos)
from FUDCon/LinuxTag in Berlin:
* http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/06/fudcon-1-morning.html
* http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/06/linuxtag-and-linuxnacht.html
* http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/06/fun-time-waiting-for-fudcon.html
* http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/06/fudcon-day-1-fudpub.html
* http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/fudcon-berlin-day-1/
* http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/fudcon-day-1/
* http://spevack.livejournal.com/85023.html
* http://diegobz.net/2009/06/27/fisl-2-day/
-- Ambassadors --
In this section, we cover Fedora Ambassadors Project[1].
Contributing Writer: Larry Cafiero
1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors
--- Release event in Naples ---
Gianluca Varisco reports on a Fedora 11 release event in Naples, Italy,
recently. NaLUG (Napoli GNU/Linux Users Group) organized, in
collaboration with UDU Parthenope (Unione degli Universitari), the
Fedora 11 Release Party. The location was simply perfect: a building
property of Parthenope’s University, located in the hearth of Naples.
For more on the event, visit
http://www.techtemple.org/2009/06/26/fedora-11-release-party-in-naples-italy/
--- Get the word out about your F11 event ---
Fedora 11 was released on Tuesday, June 9, and with it a variety of
activities around the release will be forthcoming. As such, with the
upcoming release of Fedora 11, this is a reminder that posting your
event on Fedora Weekly News can help get the word out. Contact FWN
Ambassador correspondent Larry Cafiero at
lcafiero-AT-fedoraproject-DOT-org with announcements of upcoming events
-- and don't forget to e-mail reports after the events as well.
-- QualityAssurance --
In this section, we cover the activities of the QA team[1].
Contributing Writer: Adam Williamson
1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA
--- Test Days ---
There was no Test Day last week.
Currently, no Test Day is scheduled for next week - it is still very
early in the Fedora 12 cycle. If you would like to propose a test day
which could result in changes for post-release updates for Fedora 11, or
an early test day for Fedora 12, please contact the QA team via email or
IRC, or file a ticket in QA Trac[1].
1. ↑ https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-qa/
--- Weekly meetings ---
The QA group weekly meeting[1] was held on 2009-06-24. The full log is
available[2]. James Laska reported that he had not yet been able to
update the QA Goals page[3], due to lack of time.
Will Woods provided an update on the Rawhide acceptance test plan. The
plan is now available on the Wiki[4], with ten suggested test cases.
Tickets have been filed to track the creation of each test case. He
asked for anyone who was interested in this project to help write or
review the test cases. Jóhann Guðmundsson suggested adding a test case
for basic network functionality, and the others present agreed with this
suggestion.
James Laska reviewed the new schedule for Fedora 12 QA events which has
been submitted by John Poelstra[5]. He pointed out several changes he
felt were positive. The group discussed whether Test Day dates should be
added to the main QA schedule, but in the end decided they should not be.
Will Woods gave a quick further update on the status of AutoQA (which
includes the rawhide acceptance testing discussed earlier). He explained
that, once the test plans were written, it should be relatively easy to
automate them via autotest, and automation of some tests should be
complete in one or two weeks. James Laska noted that Jesse Keating had
sent a link to a presentation he would be giving on AutoQA[6], and asked
for feedback to be sent to the list.
Finally, Jóhann Guðmundsson proposed a project to improve the quality
and quantity of information contained in bug reports[7]. Will Woods
noted that abrt[8], the automated bug reporting tool, will allow the use
of plugins to configure what files or other information should be
attached to reports from particular components.
The Bugzappers group weekly meeting[9] was held on 2009-06-23. The full
log is available[10].
The meeting was dominated by a discussion of the status of the project
to integrate anaconda triage better into the BugZappers process, and to
introduce kernel triage. Andy Lindeberg and Peter Jones provided
valuable information on the anaconda process. After much discussion, it
was broadly agreed that there was no broad incompatibility between the
anaconda bug process and the BugZappers process, and with a small amount
of work, the two could be integrated: a good list of required
information for anaconda bug reports should be created, it should be
made clear that anaconda reports must be assigned to a specific anaconda
maintainer and this assignment confirmed in person via IRC or email
before being made, and volunteers to triage anaconda should already be
well versed in its workings, or receive some training before beginning
to triage actively.
The next QA weekly meeting will be held on 2009-06-31 at 1600 UTC in
#fedora-meeting, and the next Bugzappers weekly meeting on 2009-06-30 at
1500 UTC in #fedora-meeting.
1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings
2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Meetings/20090624
3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Goals
4. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Rawhide_Acceptance_Test_Plan
5. ↑
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00507.html
6. ↑
http://jkeating.fedorapeople.org/presentations/automatedqa.odp<ref>.
[[User:Jlaska|James Laska]] reported in place of [[User:Adamwill|Adam
Williamson]] (who was absent) on his proposal to introduce an SOP for
running a Test Day. He referred to Adam's mailing list
post<ref>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00662.html</li>
<li id="cite_note-39">[[#cite_ref-39|↑]]
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Johannbg/QA/Improve_reporting</li>
<li id="cite_note-40">[[#cite_ref-40|↑]]
https://fedorahosted.org/abrt/wiki</li> <li
id="cite_note-41">[[#cite_ref-41|↑]]
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings</li> <li
id="cite_note-42">[[#cite_ref-42|↑]]
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/Meetings/Minutes-2009-Jun-23</li></ol></ref>
--- Test Day shepherding SOP draft ---
Adam Williamson announced[1] a draft SOP for the process of running a
Test Day[2], with the intent of making it easier for more people to run
Test Day events.
1. ↑
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00662.html
2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill/Draft_test_day_SOP
--- Improvement of debugging procedure pages ---
The recap mail for the QA meeting provoked a thread[1]about the best way
to improve the quality of information contained in bug reports.
Eventually, several members of the group decided to improve existing
pages explaining how to accurately identify and categorize bugs, and
what information to include when reporting them, for various components.
Work started with the page on X.org[2]. François Cami made some initial
improvements[3], Christopher Beland followed these up with some further
tweaks and suggestions[4], and Adam Williamson contributed some further
additions and addressed Christopher's suggestions.
1. ↑
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00676.html
2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Xorg/Debugging
3. ↑
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00693.html
4. ↑
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00698.html
-- Artwork --
In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team[1].
Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei
1. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork
--- Theming Constantine ---
From FUDCon, after the announcement of the release name for Fedora 12
Nicu Buculei launchedref[1] the talks about the graphic theme of the
next release "I am sure you are all already aware, the announcement is
official since yesterday when Paul delivered in in front of the FUDCon
audience, the release name for Fedora 12 was voted Constantine". He also
proposed a possible approach: Byzantine mosaics "When I think about it,
I had in my mind Byzantine culture (Roman emperor Constantine the Great)
and I think a graphic in the style of a Byzantine mosaic can be an
effective approach. The major trick is to leave out any religious
implications and stay only with cultural references."
Joost Elfering invited[2] everyone to think at the big picture "I think
we need to take a step back before coming up with results and examples.
i suggest we first take a look at the associations with Constantine.
these associations will be the bases for out new style. so no examples,
just conceptual works" and showed concerns about the religious
implications "this theme is really heavily based on religion on it's
own. We will probably have some angry faces just because of the name.
keeping out religion on this one will be really hard!", concerns
shared[3] also by Konstantinos Antonakoglou "You can't expect any work
of art without a religious reference" who proposed a simple take on that
"So, to keep it simple I sense that we should say: 'Hey! Byzantine art
used the mosaic art! Let's use it too.'"
Henrik Heigl chimed-in[4] with his own concerns about aggressiveness
"The Lion has a bit of an aggressive meaning, Constantine is en emperor
(also a bit aggressive) do we want the same way or make something
smoother?" and added another couple of ideas to the brainstorming "I
also had the Logo of my old University" and "Also I had the the "Lion"
we had in Fedora11 in my head and now maybe another animal", with the
animal idea ruled-out[5] quickly by Nicu "We can't go with another
animal (no, not even a panda :D), that would be to close to the previous
release."
1. ↑
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000277.html
2. ↑
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000278.html
3. ↑
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000281.html
4. ↑
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000282.html
5. ↑
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/design-team/2009-June/000285.html
-- Security Advisories --
In this section, we cover Security Advisories from fedora-package-announce.
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce
Contributing Writer: David Nalley
--- Fedora 11 Security Advisories ---
* git-1.6.2.5-1.fc11 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01056.html
* kernel-2.6.29.5-191.fc11 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01094.html
* rt3-3.8.2-8.fc11 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01167.html
* apr-util-1.3.7-1.fc11 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01201.html
* pam_krb5-2.3.5-1.fc11 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01288.html
* rb_libtorrent-0.14.3-2.fc11 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01302.html
--- Fedora 10 Security Advisories ---
* kernel-2.6.27.25-170.2.72.fc10 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01048.html
* git-1.6.0.6-4.fc10 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01126.html
* rt3-3.8.2-8.fc10 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01134.html
* apr-util-1.3.7-1.fc10 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01228.html
* pam_krb5-2.3.5-1.fc10 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01265.html
* poppler-0.8.7-6.fc10 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01277.html
* rb_libtorrent-0.13.1-5.fc10 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01297.html
* deluge-1.1.9-1.fc10 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01300.html
--- Fedora 9 Security Advisories ---
Fedora 9 is nearing EOL
Per FESCo support for Fedora 9 will be discontinued on July 10th 2009
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-June/msg00009.html
* git-1.6.0.6-4.fc9 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01045.html
* apr-util-1.2.12-7.fc9 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01173.html
* kernel-2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01193.html
* poppler-0.8.7-2.fc9 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01291.html
* rb_libtorrent-0.12.1-2.fc9 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01301.html
* deluge-0.5.9.3-2.fc9 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01326.html
* pam_krb5-2.3.5-1.fc9 -
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-June/msg01354.html
-- Virtualization --
In this section, we cover discussion of Fedora virtualization
technologies on the @et-mgmnt-tools-list, @fedora-xen-list,
@libvirt-list and @ovirt-devel-list lists.
Contributing Writer: Dale Bewley
--- Enterprise Management Tools List ---
This section contains the discussion happening on the et-mgmt-tools list
---- Remote virt-manager VM Wizard ----
Craig Miskell was[1] "running image:Echo-package-16px.pngvirt-manager
0.7.0 on Ubuntu, connecting using SSH to [a remote]
image:Echo-package-16px.pnglibvirt running on Debian Lenny Xen-3.2.1",
and when attempting to create a new guest found "no install options are
available because:"
* "Network install" is not available unless the connection is
local, and
* Local install media and Network boot (PXE) are not available
because of the following line in create.py (around line 340):
is_pv = (self.capsguest.os_type == "xen")
Cole Robinson pointed out the latter has been fixed upstream, and
explained the former fails "Because a network install has to fetch a
boot kernel and initrd from the URL, and we have no way to tell the
remote machine to fetch these locations."
1. ↑
http://www.redhat.com/archives/et-mgmt-tools/2009-June/msg00072.html
--- Fedora Virtualization List ---
This section contains the discussion happening on the fedora-virt list.
---- F12 Feature: Host Information ----
Richard Jones posted[1] an RFC for a feature[2] he's working on for
Fedora 12. The feature will "Allow a virtual machine to see information
and statistics from the host operating system."
For example, it will "Allow a virtual machine to look at host
information (such as number of physical, not just virtual CPUs), and
statistics like the load on the host."
Daniel Berrange noted[3] that "a core goal of this hostinfo service is
to avoid any use of networking. We don't want to presume that a guest
has a NIC, nor that the host has a configured NIC on the same LAN as the
guest." So this feature will make use of serial ports to pass queries
and responses between the guest and the host.
1. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-June/msg00123.html
2. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Hostinfo
3. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-June/msg00130.html
---- libguestfs Super-minimized Appliance ----
Richard Jones created[1] a set of "very experimental" patches to
image:Echo-package-16px.pnglibguestfs "which allow you to build a
so-called 'supermin (super-minimized) appliance'."
Within libguestfs, "The normal appliance is a self-contained Linux
operating system, based on the Fedora/RHEL/CentOS Linux distro. So it
contains a complete copy of all the libraries and programs needed, like
kernel, libc, bash, coreutils etc etc."
"The supermin appliance removes the kernel and all the executable
libraries and programs from the appliance. That just leaves a skeleton
of config files and some data files, which is obviously massively
smaller than the normal appliance. At runtime we rebuild the appliance
on-the-fly from the libraries and programs on the host (eg. pulling in
the real /lib/libc.so, the real /bin/bash etc.)"
"The new appliance is a mere 500K, so libguestfs RPMs will be a lot
smaller. Of course that just means they will have many more
dependencies, so the amount pulled down will be the same or greater."
1. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-June/msg00118.html
---- A guest fish in the pipes ----
Richard Jones patched[1] image:Echo-package-16px.pngguestfish. "This
patch adds support for pipes to guestfish, so you can pipe output from a
guestfish command through a command on the host. The canonical example is:
<fs> hexdump /bin/ls | less
Another example, looking for root backdoors in the password file:
<fs> cat /etc/passwd | awk -F: '$3 == 0 { print }' | grep -v ^root:
Anything right of the first pipe symbol gets passed to the local shell,
thus expansion, redirection and so on work on that."
1. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-virt/2009-June/msg00177.html
--- Libvirt List ---
This section contains the discussion happening on the libvir-list.
---- Safe PCI Device Passthrough ----
Mirko Raasch asked[1] "How can i start my guest with three pci devices
passed through and image:Echo-package-16px.pnglibvirt?" Starting qemu by
hand appeared to work. But virsh start produced an error:
libvirtd: 15:44:55.459: warning : pciTrySecondaryBusReset:483 : Other
devices on bus with 0000:05:01.0, not doing bus reset
Daniel Berrange recalled[2] "what libvirt is complaining about is that
there are other devices in the PCI bus which are not associated with
this guest, and thus there is no way to safely reset the device you are
trying to assign, without endangering the host OS or other guest OS."
Adding "when you launch QEMU manually there is no checking for whether
the PCI devices are in use by other guests, or by the host OS. So while
it may launch QEMU, it is not running safely, and eg, if your guest OS
does a PCI bus reset it could kill/harm your host OS."
PCI device passthrough is a new feature[3] in Fedora 11.
1. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-June/msg00516.html
2. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-June/msg00518.html
3. ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KVM_PCI_Device_Assignment
---- VMware ESX driver status update ----
Matthias Bolte continued[1] work (FWN #177[2]) to create a VMware ESX
driver for libvirt.
Matthias is currently "working on the VMX config to domain XML mapping
for dump/create XML" using the VMware Infrastructure API[3].
1. ↑ http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2009-June/msg00469.html
2. ↑
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue177#Libvirt_VMWare_ESX_Driver_In_Development
3. ↑
http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk25pubs/ReferenceGuide/
-- end FWN 182 --
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