Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 672211
Rebase virt-what in RHEL 6.2
Last modified: 2011-12-06 04:57:47 EST
Since we're now carrying 18 patches over virt-what 1.3, we should rebase virt-what in the next release of RHEL (6.2). virt-what upstream is very conservatively implemented so that we always present a stable API (and "ABI") to callers. The main work goes on adding support for new hypervisors. We now have detailed regression tests for many hypervisors which should catch regressions upstream.
No pm-ack, so no rebase ...
https://brewweb.devel.redhat.com/taskinfo?taskID=3427278 I have pushed this early so that QA can begin on this package as soon as possible. NOTE regressions in this package could also affect subscription-manager! The rebased virt-what is the same as upstream virt-what 1.11 + the single patch that was added to git after 1.11 was released. In other words, it's the same as upstream git d87e9cbae. Upstream git repo: http://git.annexia.org/?p=virt-what.git;a=summary Upstream tarballs: http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-what/files/
virt-what-1.11-1.1.el6.i686/x86_64 on RHEL 6 host. # virt-what kvm virt-what-1.11-1.1.el6.i686/x86_64 on RHEL 5 host. # virt-what kvm
virt-what-1.11-1.1.el6.i686/x86_64 on Xen host. PV: # virt-what xen HVM: # virt-what xen xen-hvm
virt-what-1.11-1.1.el6.i686/x86_64 on ESX 3.5 host. # virt-what vmware virt-what-1.11-1.1.el6.i686/x86_64 on ESX 4.0 host. # virt-what vmware
virt-what-1.11-1.1.el6.i686 on PowerVM x86 world. # virt-what powervm_lx86
virt-what-1.11-1.1.el6.s390x on SystemZ (s390x-6s-v1.ss.eng.bos.redhat.com). # virt-what ibm_systemz ibm_systemz-zvm
Hyper-V host environment is being setting up. It should be done within 1 or 2 days.
(In reply to comment #9) > virt-what-1.11-1.1.el6.i686/x86_64 on Xen host. > > PV: > # virt-what > xen This one is wrong. Assuming this is a RHEL 6 guest (domU) running on a Xen hypervisor, the output should be: # virt-what xen xen-domU Can you double-check this one? If it's still failing, can you give me some more details of the Xen host: Is it RHEL 5? Is it Citrix Xen? Can I get a login to this guest?
I re-checked it. Still no 'xen-domU', either 32 or 64 guest. It's RHEL6, not RHEL5 or Citrix.
Thanks for checking this again. I had a look at this guest, and of course being RHEL 6.1 it's using pv_ops. This is in fact a known bug / shortcoming in virt-what (see [1]). We don't know how to tell the difference between dom0 and domU with pv_ops kernels -- it's probably doable but we don't know how. So don't worry about this test. As long as it prints 'xen' we're OK. [1] http://git.annexia.org/?p=virt-what.git;a=blob;f=virt-what.in;h=4f381ab4c38cd9d38861a0fbfe764d2c5d5c59b4;hb=HEAD#l190
virt-what-1.11-1.1.el6.i686/x86_64 on Hyper-V. # virt-what hyperv Now all the hypervisors and guests are tested, moving this to VERIFIED.
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2011-1556.html