[ovirt-devel] [ANN] oVirt 4.2.0 Second Candidate Release is now available for testing

[Michal Skrivanek]

> On 13 Dec 2017, at 09:58, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo at redhat.com> wrote:
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> 2017-12-13 9:51 GMT+01:00 Michal Skrivanek <michal.skrivanek at redhat.com>:
> Hi Sandro,
> we’ve identified one more blocker for HE installations[1]. We plan getting it in today if everything goes well, would be great if we can update the RC with new vdsm soon after.
> 
> Thanks,
> michal
> 
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1524119
> 
> We have right now 3 blockers:
> ID▲	oVirt Team	Product▲	Component▲	Assignee	Status▼	Summary	Severity	Priority▲
> 1522641	Node	cockpit-ovirt	Hosted Engine	phbailey at redhat.com	NEW	Hosted Engine deployment failed, there display 'Timed out...	urgent	unspecified

seems this still requires clarification. There is some misunderstanding between the assignee and qe.

> 1525353	Network	ovirt-engine	BLL.Network	eraviv at redhat.com	NEW	vNIC mapping is broken on import from data domain - vNICs...	urgent	urgent

Dan, can you update why this is a urgent/urgent  blocker? It doesn’t seem to qualify for that severity. Import VM from SD and end up with empty mapping you can easily fix…that hardly critically affects running workloads.

> 1524119	Virt	vdsm	General	fromani at redhat.com	POST	Failed to migrate HE VM	urgent	urgent
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> 
> Looks like we'll need a RC3.
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>> On 12 Dec 2017, at 16:45, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the Second Candidate Release of oVirt 4.2.0, as of December 12th, 2017
>> 
>> This is pre-release software. This pre-release should not to be used in production.
>> Please take a look at our community page[1] to learn how to ask questions and interact with developers and users.
>> All issues or bugs should be reported via oVirt Bugzilla[2].
>> 
>> This update is the second candidate release of the 4.2.0 version. This release brings more than 280 enhancements and more than one thousand bug fixes, including more than 500 high or urgent severity fixes, on top of oVirt 4.1 series.
>> 
>> What's new in oVirt 4.2.0?
>> 
>> 	• The Administration Portal has been completely redesigned using Patternfly, a widely adopted standard in web application design. It now features a cleaner, more intuitive design, for an improved user experience.
>> 	• There is an all-new VM Portal for non-admin users.
>> 	• A new High Performance virtual machine type has been added to the New VM dialog box in the Administration Portal.
>> 	• Open Virtual Network (OVN) adds support for Open vSwitch software defined networking (SDN).
>> 	• oVirt now supports Nvidia vGPU.
>> 	• The ovirt-ansible-roles package helps users with common administration tasks.
>> 	• Virt-v2v now supports Debian/Ubuntu based VMs.
>> 
>> For more information about these and other features, check out the oVirt 4.2.0 blog post. 
>> 
>> This release is available now on x86_64 architecture for:
>> * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 or later
>> * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.4 or later
>> 
>> This release supports Hypervisor Hosts on x86_64 and ppc64le architectures for:
>> * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 or later
>> * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.4 or later
>> * oVirt Node 4.2 (available for x86_64 only)
>> 
>> See the release notes draft [3] for installation / upgrade instructions and a list of new features and bugs fixed.
>> 
>> Notes:
>> - oVirt Appliance is already available.
>> - oVirt Node is already available [4]
>> 
>> Additional Resources:
>> * Read more about the oVirt 4.2.0 release highlights: http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.2.0/
>> * Get more oVirt project updates on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ovirt
>> * Check out the latest project news on the oVirt blog: http://www.ovirt.org/blog/
>> 
>> [1] https://www.ovirt.org/community/
>> [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?classification=oVirt
>> [3] http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.2.0/
>> [4] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.2-pre/iso/
>> 
>> -- 
>> SANDRO BONAZZOLA
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> SANDRO BONAZZOLA
> ASSOCIATE MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA ENG VIRTUALIZATION R&D
> Red Hat EMEA
> 	
> TRIED. TESTED. TRUSTED.
>