Libvirt work for R
libvirt is the preferred virtualization management solution in Ubuntu.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Dave Walker
- Priority:
- Medium
- Drafter:
- Ubuntu Server
- Direction:
- Approved
- Assignee:
- Serge Hallyn
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Accepted for raring
- Implementation:
- Implemented
- Milestone target:
- ubuntu-13.04-feature-freeze
- Started by
- Serge Hallyn
- Completed by
- Serge Hallyn
Whiteboard
User Stories:
Risks:
Test Plans:
The qrt libvirt testsuite is to be run before every package upload.
Release Note:
* Libvirt can now be used to launch and test UEFI based VMS.
* Libvirt-qemu can now be set up in one step to use hugepages for improved performance.
Notes:
* transparent hugepages are available in 1.3, so no setup is needed for use of hugepages. Therefore blog is canceled.
* libvirt has now updated code for libxl/xenlight but it looks like the Xen packaging needs to be revised to make use of that. libxen-dev currently has none of the libxl related files.
Work Items
Work items:
[serge-hallyn] Have virbr0 not be set to autostart if it's network is in use: DONE
[smb] watch for libxl patches for xen 4.2 (see whiteboard): DONE
[mdeslaur] make sure OVMF support in virt-manager is sufficient to easily test secureboot and non-secureboot UEFI boots: POSTPONED
[serge-hallyn] Simplify hugepages exploitation in libirt-qemu (LP: #1001584): DONE
Dependency tree
* Blueprints in grey have been implemented.