[ovirt-devel] [vdsm][virt] what's new in virt (20160323)

[Francesco Romani]

Hi all,

Here it is a new (roughly :) weekly summary about what's going on on virt's world (VDSM edition).

General directions:
* Francesco: the first milestone of container integration was reached.
  Please see below for details and to learn how to try it!
  Besides that, begun a sprint to solve some longstanding 4.0 bugs.
* MartinPolednik: work at full speed on 4.0 features.
  Posted cleanup patches for hostdev and for virt devices
* Milan: the first series of vmdevices improvements was merged! Kudos for the important milestone!
  work at full speed on 4.0 features, and planning the next step for vmdevices
* Vinzenz: work at full speed on 4.0 features
  Guest Lifecycle Events (and Hooks).

Patch topics in need of attention
* Francesco: (medium-to-low need, already received some reviews)
  https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/q/status:open+project:vdsm+branch:master+topic:cleanup_flows
* MartinPolednik:  (medium-to-low need, already received some reviews)
  https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/q/status:open+project:vdsm+branch:master+topic:hostdev-improvements
* Milan: N/A
* Shahar: N/A
* Vinzenz: N/A

Single patches in need of attention:
* Francesco:
  - N/A
* MartinPolednik:
  - N/A
* Milan:
  - N/A
* Shahar:
  - N/A
* Vinzenz:
  - N/A
  

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Container news:
TL;DR highlights:

- still in early technology preview stage, we are currently evaluating other alternatives
  (e.g. http://qemu-project.org/index.php?title=Features/Containers, kvmtool/lkvm)
- experienced/brave users are encouraged to try, to gather early feedback about the
  directions
- works with rkt (https://github.com/coreos/rkt), runc support planned (http://runc.io/)
- works with vanilla Engine 3.6.x! You just need few custom properties
- requires Vdsm master, from sources
- getting started instructions at
  https://github.com/mojaves/ovirt-site/blob/container-support/source/feature/container-support.html.md#how-to-try-the-feature
- make sure you use version https://github.com/mojaves/convirt/releases/tag/v0.1.5.2
- we still don't have a better name than `convirt' :)
- documentation is still being improved (expect updates and polishing soon)
- monitoring is not yet implemented, it is the next milestone

Anyone interested in more details, or willing to try this out is encouraged to reach me
- here on devel (make sure to CC me so I'll notice the message)
- or on IRC, #vdsm on freenode
- or on IRC, #ovirt on OFTC

Bests,

-- 
Francesco Romani
RedHat Engineering Virtualization R & D
Phone: 8261328
IRC: fromani