18. Virtualization
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Virtualization in Fedora 8 supports both Xen and KVM virtualization
platforms. The libvirt API
and its corresponding tools, virt-manager
and virsh, have been updated to support both KVM
and Xen. Users can choose which virtualization platform to install,
and use the same tools without regard to that choice.
Xen in Fedora 8 is based on version 3.1.0.
KVM in Fedora 8 is based on version 36-2.
For more information on the differences between Xen and KVM, refer to http://virt.kernelnewbies.org/TechComparison. For more information on installing and using virtualization in Fedora 8, refer to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Fedora8VirtQuickStart.
18.1. Changes to the Virtualization Packages
The following improvements have been made in the virtualization packages in Fedora 8:
Secure remote management of guest domains. Features include:
Secure remote management of guest VM lifecycle
Secure remote access to the guest virtual consoles
For more information on secure remote management, refer to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureVirtSecurity.
Introduction of Virt Viewer, a lightweight, minimal UI for interacting with the graphical console of virtual machines. Virt Viewer serves as a replacement for
vncviewer.The
LibVNCServerimplementation has been removed from Xen and replaced with QEMU.Introduction of GTK-VNC, a GTK widget which provides a VNC client. For more information on GTK-VNC refer to http://gtk-vnc.sourceforge.net/.