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How It Stacks Up Amit Shah Presented by Fedora Project Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Fedora Virtualisation
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Virtualisation
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No Swiss-Army knife Do one thing, do it right Stack
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virt-manager User-visible interface Install and run guests Select optimal settings according to guest type Connects to libvirt Local and remote
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libvirt Hypervisor-neutral API Mechanisms, not policies Handles various storage types Handles networking Talks to QEMU
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QEMU Hardware emulation CPU, Devices Management interface to guests Interfaces with the kernel
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Linux Kernel Houses KVM Exploits hardware virtualisation features Allows QEMU guests to run on local CPUs Paravirtualised drivers
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Client tools VNC viewer SPICE client
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Guest Agents Spice Video Spice Audio Clipboard copy/paste Lock screen Reboot / Shutdown USB devices
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Some TODOs SPICE: lots to be done (www.spice-space.org)www.spice-space.org QEMU: Stable management APIs for libvirt Machine as well as human interaction Libvirt: expose several QEMU features Virt-manager: expose several libvirt features
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Cloud
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Different APIs Storage Have to have customised Fedora versions for each cloud provider All Clouds Not The Same
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Deltacloud One API to work against multiple clouds Multiple drivers already written Amazon EC2, Rackspace, RHEV-M,... Web UI to monitor images across clouds Inter-cloud migration Manage images, provision on any cloud
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Challenges New Fedora releases on clouds A.ks for clouds for bootstrapping Providers take easy way out Create official EC2 images Cloud Test Days Docs, Test Plans Package composition FAD proposed – watch out for it!
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Search for Boxgrinder OpenStack Deltacloud Fedora AMI creator cloud@lists.fedoraproject.org virt@lists.fedoraproject.org
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