<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Hi Itamar ,<br>I would be happy to throw in an idea .<br><br>I think oVirt is lacking the ability to assign permissions on multiple VMs at once .<br>For example , if I want to grant permissions to a certain user on 30<br>VMs , I need to do it manually (or with some script). </div><div>I think this feature is essential for an enterprise aimed product.<br>Also it would be really cool to have an ability to create groups within oVirt and not in the directory, and<br>grant a group permissions on a vm instead of adding them one by one .<br>For example , creating a group called Dev and give the group<br>permissions on all relevant VMs instead of adding each user one by one .<br><br><br>Hope to see this feature in the next versions .<br>Thanks,<br><br></div><div><span name="x"></span><br>Dotan Paz , <br><span name="x"></span><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Itamar Heim" <iheim@redhat.com><br><b>To: </b>users@ovirt.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, August 21, 2013 12:19:16 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>[Users] so, what do you want next in oVirt?<br><div><br></div>earlier in the year we did a survey for feature requests / improvements <br>/ etc.<br><div><br></div>since a lot of things were added, and priorities usually change, I'd <br>like to ask again for "what do you need the most from oVirt / what are <br>your pain points" next?<br><div><br></div>below[1] I've listed my understanding of what already went in from <br>previous survey requests (to various degrees of coverage).<br><div><br></div>Thanks,<br> Itamar<br><div><br></div>[1] from the top 12<br>V Allow disk resize<br>V Integrate Nagios/Zabbix monitoring - via a ui plugin<br>V Highly Available engine - via hosted engine[2]<br>V Open vSwitch integration - via neutron integration<br>X Allow cloning VMs without template<br>? Enable hypervisor upgrade/updates through engine[3]<br>V Allow engine on an oVirt hosted VM - via hosted engine[2]<br>V Enable guest configuration (root password, SSH keys, network) via<br> guest agent in engine - via cloud-init<br>X Integrate v2v into engine<br>? Bond/extend ovirtmgmt with a second network for HA/increased<br> bandwidth[4]<br>X Integrate scheduling of snapshots and VM export for backups in<br> engine[5]<br>V Spice – support Google Chrome - via mime based launch<br><div><br></div><br>Other items mentioned in previous survey which should be covered by now:<br>- Fix timeout when adding local host during all-in-one configuration<br>- Fix engine set-up when SELinux is disabled<br>- Provide packages for el6 (CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux)<br>- Allow multiple VMs to be deployed from the same template at the same<br> time<br>- ISO domains on local/GlusterS<br>- Show IP addresses in Virtual Machines->Network Interfaces<br>- OpenStack Quantum support (now called Neutron)<br>- noVNC support<br>- Support spice.html5 and websocket proxy<br>- Add other guest OSes to list<br>- Port oVirt guest agent to Ubuntu[6]<br>- SLA - Allow resource time-sharing<br>- Spice - Mac client (via mime based launch)<br>- Spice - port XPI plug-in to Windows (not sure this will happen, but<br> mime based launch allows using firefox now)<br>- Spice - client for Ubuntu/Debian (should be covered via mime based<br> launch)<br><div><br></div><br>[2] hosted engine is in active development, but not released yet.<br>[3] host update is supported, but not for general yum update.<br>[4] a lot of improvements were done in this space, but i'm not sure if<br> they cover this exact use case<br>[5] backup api is now being pushed to master, and orchestration of<br> backups should probably happen via 3rd part backup vendors?<br>[6] I'm not sure packaging exists yet, but ubuntu is covered for the<br> basic functionality of the guest agent.<br>_______________________________________________<br>Users mailing list<br>Users@ovirt.org<br>http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users<br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>