[Users] oVirt March 2014 Updates

[Itamar Heim]

*** Highlights ***

- oVirt 3.4 was released!
   It has been a pleasure seeing the uptake of oVirt this year,
   culminating with the amount of traffic around 3.4 GA.
   Kudos and Thanks to everyone!

   http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/announce/2014-March/000098.html
   http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.4_Release_Announcement
   http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.4_Release_Notes

   (more on 3.4 below)

- oVirt 3.3.4 Released.

- Great to see some of the oVirt 3.5 discussions picking up. feature
   pages are sent for reviews / review sessions scheduled.

- Docker UI plugin for oVirt by Oved Ourfali
   http://alturl.com/r9925
   http://gerrit.ovirt.org/25814

- engine-devel and arch mailing list unified to devel at ovirt.org
   (and vdsm will try to track it as well)

- Cool gamification progress bar plugin by Vojtech
   http://www.ovirt.org/Gamification

- glance.ovirt.org is up and running Thanks to Oved
   (and available by default in 3.4)
   http://alturl.com/swv2x

- IT Novum case study published
   ... with nearly 1,100 VMware virtual machines successfully migrated
   to oVirt... all on 960 CPU cores and 7680 GB of RAM...
   http://www.ovirt.org/IT_Novum_case_study
   http://www.it-novum.com/en/ovirt-en.html

- Alon Bar-Lev updated Experimental Gentoo overlay is available
   https://github.com/alonbl/ovirt-overlay
   https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OVirt

*** oVirt 3.4 Updates ***

- Up and Running with oVirt 3.4 by Jason Brooks
   (Hosted Engine, glance.ovirt.org, etc)
   http://alturl.com/mjvrq

- oVirt 3.4 provided the ability hosted engine and early support for
   PPC64 (Russian)
   http://tinyurl.com/ovp5zg5

- Free management software oVirt 3.4 with extended memory management
   (German)
   http://heise.de/-2158871

- Version 3.4 of oVirt management is virtualized (German)
   http://alturl.com/qi5kp

- Download page refreshed, thanks to Brian Proffitt and others
   http://www.ovirt.org/Download

*** Future Conferences ***

- oVirt will be represented at the Summit Developer Lounge at Red Hat
   Summit by bkp, and ovedo will be speaking at DevNation

- bkp ill have a session in LinuxFest NorthWest on April 26-27

- In addition to two sessions at FISL (Brazil), we get to do an oVirt
   community update session. There will also be oVirt discussions at a
   Red Hat dojo in Sao Paulo before FISL
   http://alturl.com/9w67g

- Rene Koch is organizing two oVirt workshops in Austria: Grazer
   Linuxtage in Graz April 4-5 and Linuxwochen Vienna, May 8-10.
   http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-March/022797.html

*** Past Conferences ***

- Adam Litke pitched oVirt at the Linux Collaboration Summit
   http://alturl.com/3p6ro
   http://alturl.com/93452

*** Other ***

- Kimchi 1.2 released
   http://miud.in/1F5K

- New Foreman plugin with support for snapshots on oVirt
   http://is.gd/1UkLLS

- Deploying oVirt 3.3 by Arnaud (French)
   http://www.it-connect.fr/ovirt-partie-1/

- iordanov published Opaque (Android Spice client) v1.2.2 Beta can now
   record audio using the microphone
   https://plus.google.com/111635076890324817164/posts/Bu1FaaoxGw8

- Extending oVirt/Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization with Vdsm hooks
   http://developerblog.redhat.com/2014/02/25/extending-rhev-vdsm-hooks/

- HP sending detailed feature pages for NUMA support, slated for 3.5.