Richard W.M. Jones | 21 May 22:39
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[fedora-virt] [ANNOUNCE] libguestfs 1.18 released - tools for managing virtual machines and disk images


I'm pleased to announce the latest stable release of libguestfs, a
library and a set of tools for reading, writing, managing, inspecting,
rescuing, resizing and aligning disk images, and offline and live
virtual machines.  There are many new features and bug fixes in this
release; see the release notes below.

You can get libguestfs 1.18.0 from:

Main website:  http://libguestfs.org
Source:        http://libguestfs.org/download/1.18-stable/
Fedora 17:     https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libguestfs-1.18.0-1.fc17
Debian/Ubuntu: [coming soon]

Rich.

Release notes for libguestfs 1.18.0
-----------------------------------

These release notes only cover the differences from the previous
stable/dev branch split (1.16.0).  For detailed changelogs, please see
the git repository, or the ChangeLog file distributed in the tarball.

New features

  virt tools:

   - virt-sysprep has been rewritten and expanded (thanks Wanlong Gao)
     http://libguestfs.org/virt-sysprep.1.html

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wei | 21 May 10:14
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[fedora-virt] A question about that my cpu do not support KVM

Hello,
 
I want to play with the LIBVIRT ,So I should install the KVM .
But my old cpu do not support it ,Can I just install the QEMU instead?
Many thanks!
 
wei from china
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Chuck Mattern | 9 May 05:03
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[fedora-virt] vcpu affinity issue after host resumes from suspend

I am running a Lenovo T410 with an Intel Core i5 CPU M 560   <at> 2.67GHz and 8 gigs RAM.  When the laptop resumes from the suspended stat any running VM will have it's CPU affinity locked to CPU0.  Has anyone else seen this?  Any workarounds or permanent fixes?


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VHPC 12 | 6 May 19:32
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[fedora-virt] Submission Deadline Extension

we apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP

===================================================================

CALL FOR PAPERS

7th Workshop on

Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing

VHPC '12

as part of Euro-Par 2012, Rhodes Island, Greece

===================================================================

Date: August 28, 2012

Workshop URL: http://vhpc.org

SUBMISSION DEADLINE:

June 11, 2012 - Full paper submission (extended)

SCOPE:

Virtualization has become a common abstraction layer in modern
data centers, enabling resource owners to manage complex
infrastructure independently of their applications. Conjointly,
virtualization is becoming a driving technology for a manifold of
industry grade IT services. The cloud concept includes the notion
of a separation between resource owners and users, adding  services
such as hosted application frameworks and queueing. Utilizing the
same infrastructure, clouds carry significant potential for use in
high-performance scientific computing. The ability of clouds to provide
for requests and releases of vast computing resources dynamically and
close to the marginal cost of providing the services is unprecedented in
the history of scientific and commercial computing.

Distributed computing concepts that leverage federated resource
access are popular within the grid community, but have not seen
previously desired deployed levels so far. Also, many of the scientific
data centers have not adopted virtualization or cloud concepts yet.

This workshop aims to bring together industrial providers with the
scientific community in order to foster discussion, collaboration
and mutual exchange of knowledge and experience.

The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min
paper presentations, each followed by 10 min discussion sections.
Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations.

TOPICS

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Higher-level cloud architectures, focusing on issues such as:
- Languages for describing highly-distributed compute jobs
- Workload characterization for VM-based environments
- Optimized communication libraries/protocols in the cloud
- Cross-layer optimization of numeric algorithms on VM infrastructure
- System and process/bytecode VM convergence
- Cloud frameworks and API sets
- Checkpointing/migration of large compute jobs
- Instrumentation interfaces and languages
- VMM performance (auto-)tuning on various load types
- Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance, and security
- Software as a Service (SaaS) architectures
- Research and education use cases
- Virtualization in cloud, cluster and grid environments
- Cross-layer VM optimizations
- Cloud use cases including optimizations
- VM-based cloud performance modelling
- Performance and cost modelling

Lower-level design challenges for Hypervisors, VM-aware I/O devices,
hardware accelerators or filesystems in VM environments, especially:
- Cloud, grid and distributed filesystems
- Hardware for I/O virtualization (storage/network/accelerators)
- Storage and network I/O subsystems in virtualized environments
- Novel software approaches to I/O virtualization
- Paravirtualized I/O subsystems for modified/unmodified guests
- Virtualization-aware cluster interconnects
- Direct device assignment
- NUMA-aware subsystems in virtualized environments
- Hardware Accelerators in virtualization (GPUs/FPGAs)
- Hardware extensions for virtualization
- VMMs/Hypervisors for embedded systems

Data Center management methods, including:
- QoS and and service levels
- VM cloud and cluster distribution algorithms
- VM load-balancing in Clouds
- Hypervisor extensions and tools for cluster and grid computing
- Fault tolerant VM environments
- Virtual machine monitor platforms
- Management, deployment and monitoring of VM-based environments
- Cluster provisioning in the Cloud

PAPER SUBMISSION

Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by at least two
members of the program committee and external reviewers. Submissions
should include abstract, key words, the e-mail address of the
corresponding author, and must not exceed 10 pages, including tables
and figures at a main font size no smaller than 11 point. Submission
of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper
be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the
conference to present the work.

Accepted papers will be published in the Springer LNCS series - the
format must be according to the Springer LNCS Style. Initial
submissions are in PDF; authors of accepted papers will be requested
to provide source files.

Format Guidelines: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
Style template:
ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip
Abstract Submission Link: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=11943

IMPORTANT DATES

Rolling abstract submission
June 11, 2012 - Full paper submission (extended)
June 29, 2012 - Acceptance notification
July 20, 2012 - Camera-ready version due
August 28, 2012 - Workshop Date

CHAIR

Michael Alexander (chair), TU Wien, Austria
Gianluigi Zanetti (co-chair), CRS4, Italy
Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), NTUA, Greece

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Paolo Anedda, CRS4, Italy
Giovanni Busonera, CRS4, Italy
Brad Calder, Microsoft, USA
Roberto Canonico, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy
Tommaso Cucinotta, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Ireland
Werner Fischer, Thomas-Krenn AG, Germany
William Gardner, University of Guelph, USA
Marcus Hardt, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany
Sverre Jarp, CERN, Switzerland
Shantenu Jha, Louisiana State University, USA
Xuxian Jiang, NC State, USA
Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Simone Leo, CRS4, Italy
Ignacio Llorente, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Naoya Maruyama, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Jean-Marc Menaud, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France
Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, Foundation for Research&Technology Hellas, Greece
Jose Renato Santos, HP Labs, USA
Walter Schwaiger, TU Wien, Austria
Yoshio Turner, HP Labs, USA
Kurt Tutschku, University of Vienna, Austria
Lizhe Wang, Indiana University, USA
Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan

DURATION: Workshop Duration is one day.

GENERAL INFORMATION

The workshop will be held as part of Euro-Par 2012.

Euro-Par 2012: http://europar2012.cti.gr/
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Renich Bon Ciric | 24 Apr 10:23
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[fedora-virt] Do we have a Google+ circle?

Hey, guys!

It would be cool to have one. Can we have one setup? I'd like it shared to me.

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VHPC 12 | 19 Apr 13:46
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[fedora-virt] CfP 7th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC'12)

we apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.

===================================================================

CALL FOR PAPERS

7th Workshop on

Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing

VHPC '12

as part of Euro-Par 2012, Rhodes Island, Greece

===================================================================

Date: August 28, 2012

Workshop URL: http://vhpc.org

SUBMISSION DEADLINE:

Rolling abstract submission
June 4, 2012 - Full paper submission

SCOPE:

Virtualization has become a common abstraction layer in modern
data centers, enabling resource owners to manage complex
infrastructure independently of their applications. Conjointly,
virtualization is becoming a driving technology for a manifold of
industry grade IT services. The cloud concept includes the notion
of a separation between resource owners and users, adding  services
such as hosted application frameworks and queueing. Utilizing the
same infrastructure, clouds carry significant potential for use in
high-performance scientific computing. The ability of clouds to provide
for requests and releases of vast computing resources dynamically and
close to the marginal cost of providing the services is unprecedented in
the history of scientific and commercial computing.

Distributed computing concepts that leverage federated resource
access are popular within the grid community, but have not seen
previously desired deployed levels so far. Also, many of the scientific
data centers have not adopted virtualization or cloud concepts yet.

This workshop aims to bring together industrial providers with the
scientific community in order to foster discussion, collaboration
and mutual exchange of knowledge and experience.

The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min
paper presentations, each followed by 10 min discussion sections.
Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations.

TOPICS

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Higher-level cloud architectures, focusing on issues such as:
- Languages for describing highly-distributed compute jobs
- Workload characterization for VM-based environments
- Optimized communication libraries/protocols in the cloud
- Cross-layer optimization of numeric algorithms on VM infrastructure
- System and process/bytecode VM convergence
- Cloud frameworks and API sets
- Checkpointing/migration of large compute jobs
- Instrumentation interfaces and languages
- VMM performance (auto-)tuning on various load types
- Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance, and security
- Software as a Service (SaaS) architectures
- Research and education use cases
- Virtualization in cloud, cluster and grid environments
- Cross-layer VM optimizations
- Cloud use cases including optimizations
- VM-based cloud performance modelling
- Performance and cost modelling

Lower-level design challenges for Hypervisors, VM-aware I/O devices,
hardware accelerators or filesystems in VM environments, especially:
- Cloud, grid and distributed filesystems
- Hardware for I/O virtualization (storage/network/accelerators)
- Storage and network I/O subsystems in virtualized environments
- Novel software approaches to I/O virtualization
- Paravirtualized I/O subsystems for modified/unmodified guests
- Virtualization-aware cluster interconnects
- Direct device assignment
- NUMA-aware subsystems in virtualized environments
- Hardware Accelerators in virtualization (GPUs/FPGAs)
- Hardware extensions for virtualization
- VMMs/Hypervisors for embedded systems

Data Center management methods, including:
- QoS and and service levels
- VM cloud and cluster distribution algorithms
- VM load-balancing in Clouds
- Hypervisor extensions and tools for cluster and grid computing
- Fault tolerant VM environments
- Virtual machine monitor platforms
- Management, deployment and monitoring of VM-based environments
- Cluster provisioning in the Cloud

PAPER SUBMISSION

Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by at least two
members of the program committee and external reviewers. Submissions
should include abstract, key words, the e-mail address of the
corresponding author, and must not exceed 10 pages, including tables
and figures at a main font size no smaller than 11 point. Submission
of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper
be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the
conference to present the work.

Accepted papers will be published in the Springer LNCS series - the
format must be according to the Springer LNCS Style. Initial
submissions are in PDF; authors of accepted papers will be requested
to provide source files.

Format Guidelines: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
Style template:
ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip
Abstract Submission Link: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=11943

IMPORTANT DATES

Rolling abstract submission
June 4, 2012 - Full paper submission
June 29, 2012 - Acceptance notification
July 20, 2012 - Camera-ready version due
August 28, 2012 - Workshop Date

CHAIR

Michael Alexander (chair), TU Wien, Austria
Gianluigi Zanetti (co-chair), CRS4, Italy
Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), NTUA, Greece

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Paolo Anedda, CRS4, Italy
Giovanni Busonera, CRS4, Italy
Brad Calder, Microsoft, USA
Roberto Canonico, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy
Tommaso Cucinotta, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Ireland
Werner Fischer, Thomas-Krenn AG, Germany
William Gardner, University of Guelph, USA
Marcus Hardt, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany
Sverre Jarp, CERN, Switzerland
Shantenu Jha, Louisiana State University, USA
Xuxian Jiang, NC State, USA
Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Simone Leo, CRS4, Italy
Ignacio Llorente, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Naoya Maruyama, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Jean-Marc Menaud, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France
Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, Foundation for Research&Technology Hellas, Greece
Jose Renato Santos, HP Labs, USA
Walter Schwaiger, TU Wien, Austria
Yoshio Turner, HP Labs, USA
Kurt Tutschku, University of Vienna, Austria
Lizhe Wang, Indiana University, USA
Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan

DURATION: Workshop Duration is one day.

GENERAL INFORMATION

The workshop will be held as part of Euro-Par 2012.

Euro-Par 2012: http://europar2012.cti.gr/
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Cole Robinson | 12 Apr 14:50
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[fedora-virt] Reminder: Fedora 17 virt test day going on right now!

Hey all,

Just a reminder that the Fedora 17 virt test day is going on right now. If
you've got an F17/rawhide machine (or even an F17 VM) and some spare time, use
em to run through your regular virt workflow and file bugs for any issues you
hit. A bunch of us are hanging out in #fedora-test-day on freenode.

More info, including specific test cases:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2012-04-12_Virtualization_Test_Day

Todd Deshane previously posted some xen specific test info:
http://openetherpad.org/xen-fedora-testing

Thanks,
Cole
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Hans de Goede | 11 Apr 09:30
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[fedora-virt] Status of the virt preview repository?

Hi All,

I noticed that the virt-preview repository at:
http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/jforbes/virt-preview/fedora-16

Is no longer beeing updated, given that Justin has moved over to the Fedora
kernel team this is understandable. So the question is what are we going to do with the
virt-preview repository?

Regards,

Hans
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Tom Horsley | 10 Apr 03:16
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[fedora-virt] Spice client hates filling out tax forms!

I'm running H&R block Tax Cut in a Windows XP virtual machine
on my Fedora 16 desktop. I'm trying to see if it can import
my W-2 form, so I type in my employer's ID number and click
the search button, and "Poof!" the spice client window
disappears instantly.

The virtual machine is still running OK, and I can restart
the spice client and TAB to the button and hit Enter.

That works fine.

I don't know what it is about clicking that one button
in that one screen in that one program, but it sure
upsets the spice client.

I clicked zillions of other buttons while filling out
my taxes with no issues at all, but that one is too much
for it.
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Laine Stump | 9 Apr 13:22

[fedora-virt] Serious regression of "systemctl restart libvirtd.service" in F17

See

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805942

which describes the problem (all dnsmasq/qemu-kvm/etc processes started
by libvirtd are killed by libvirtd restart) and

 https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-March/msg00946.html

which has an earlier fix to part of the problem, and the discussion that
led to the above bug being filed.
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Kashyap Chamarthy | 4 Apr 11:08
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Re: [fedora-virt] FYI: iPXE in Fedora 17

On 04/04/2012 02:36 PM, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
> 
>>>
>>> The version of libvirt you have is not expecting the new 2-digit QEMU
>>> version numbers. Update to newer libvirt too !
>>
>> Gah, silly me.
>>
>> Just kicked off a scratch build for libvirt too using this srm -->
>> libvirt-0.9.10-4.fc17.src.rpm  -- http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3962625
>>
>> Will retest once it's built.
> 
> I updated libvirt from 'virt-preview' repo, and that seems to be sufficient to create a
> guest using :
> 
> 
> ===
> # virt-install --connect=qemu:///system --network=bridge:br0 --pxe --name f16tbox2 --disk
> path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/f16tbox2.img,size=8 --ram 1024 --vcpus=2 --check-cpu --hvm
> --os-variant fedora16
> ===
> 
> Version info:
> ===
> # rpm -qa | egrep -i 'qemu|libvirt'
> ipxe-roms-qemu-20120328-1.gitaac9718.fc16.noarch
> libvirt-0.9.10-2.fc16.x86_64
> qemu-common-1.0-11.fc16.x86_64
> qemu-kvm-1.0-11.fc16.x86_64
> qemu-system-x86-1.0-11.fc16.x86_64
> libvirt-client-0.9.10-2.fc16.x86_64
> qemu-img-1.0-11.fc16.x86_64
> libvirt-python-0.9.10-2.fc16.x86_64
> ===
> 
> Even the upgrade path from gpxe-roms-qemu to ipxe-roms-qemu is successful.
> 
> Updated the karma on Bodhi for iPXE.
> 
> Thanks Dan.
> 
> 
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Daniel
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