VirtFeatureVerification

Revision 4 as of 2010-06-15 19:56:49

Clear message

The Ubuntu Hypervisor stack consists of qemu-kvm and libvirt at its core. QEMU provides the userspace emulation, KVM provides the kernel acceleration, and libvirt provides an abstraction layer for applications to interface with various hypervisors at an API level.

This page is dedicated to enumerating and tracking the testing of some of the basic and advanced features of this hypervisor stack.

For basic documentation, see:

Results

QEMU Feature: Serial Console

  • Command line:

    kvm -serial stdio
  • Additional setup: Add console=ttyS0 to the kernel boot parameter

  • Result: Serial console input/output is on stdio of the shell that launched the VM

QEMU Feature: VNC

  • Command line:

    kvm -vnc :1
  • Additional setup: Run vncviewer :1 from another command prompt

  • Result: VM's graphical display should be in a VNC window, rather than SDL

QEMU Feature: virtio disks

  • Command line:

    kvm -drive file=maverick.img,if=virtio,index=0,boot=on
  • Result: Image boots

QEMU Feature: virtio net

  • Command line:

    kvm -net nic,virtio -net user -redir tcp:2224::22
  • Result: Image is able to boot and access network, and host can ssh into guest using 'ssh -p 2224 localhost'

Distributions

  • Fedora:

    • Installed 32-bit and 64-bit fedora 13, from livecds
  • Debian:

    • Installed 32-bit and 64-bit, from netboot cd images