<div dir="ltr"><div>Not sure how it was in your part of the world, but by golly it sure was hot in North America. But the weather was no match for the global oVirt team, who followed up on the June launch of oVirt 4.0 with solid new releases, a new oVirt sub-project, and participation in the 2016 KVM Forum!</div><div><br></div><div>It's been a busy summer, so here's what happened in July and August 2016:</div><div><br></div><div>-----------------</div><div>Software Releases</div><div>-----------------</div><div><br></div><div>oVirt 4.0.3 Final Release is now available</div><div><a href="http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.0.3/">http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.0.3/</a></div><div><br></div><div>New oVirt-Live (4.0.3) is available for download</div><div><a href="http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2016-June/040577.html">http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2016-June/040577.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>oVirt 4.0.4 First Release<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Candidate is now available</div><div><a href="http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/announce/2016-September/000288.html">http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/announce/2016-September/000288.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Announcing the oVirt Engine DR Sub-project</div><div><a href="http://www.ovirt.org/blog/2016/07/announcing-the-ovirt-engine-dr-subproject/">http://www.ovirt.org/blog/2016/07/announcing-the-ovirt-engine-dr-subproject/</a></div><div><br></div><div>----------------</div><div>In the Community</div><div>----------------</div><div><br></div><div>Up and Running with oVirt 4.0 and Gluster Storage</div><div><a href="http://www.ovirt.org/blog/2016/08/up-and-running-with-ovirt-4-0-and-gluster-storage/">http://www.ovirt.org/blog/2016/08/up-and-running-with-ovirt-4-0-and-gluster-storage/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Monitoring Improvements in oVirt</div><div><a href="http://www.ovirt.org/blog/2016/08/monitoring-improvements-in-ovirt/">http://www.ovirt.org/blog/2016/08/monitoring-improvements-in-ovirt/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Manage Your Hosted Engine Hosts Deployment Via Engine</div><div><a href="http://www.ovirt.org/blog/2016/07/Manage-Your-Hosted-Engine-Hosts-Deployment/">http://www.ovirt.org/blog/2016/07/Manage-Your-Hosted-Engine-Hosts-Deployment/</a></div><div><br></div><div>oVirt Engine 4.0 Installation Issues on Fedora 24</div><div><a href="http://www.ovirt.org/blog/2016/07/ovirt-engine-4-setup-in-fedora24/">http://www.ovirt.org/blog/2016/07/ovirt-engine-4-setup-in-fedora24/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Subclusters in oVirt 4.0 - Label-Based VM to Host Affinity</div><div><a href="http://www.ovirt.org/blog/2016/07/affinity-labels/">http://www.ovirt.org/blog/2016/07/affinity-labels/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Editable Field Annotations Consolidation</div><div><a href="http://www.ovirt.org/blog/2016/07/annotations-consolidation-blog/">http://www.ovirt.org/blog/2016/07/annotations-consolidation-blog/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Dependency Injection and Mockito</div><div><a href="http://www.ovirt.org/blog/2016/07/dependency-injection-and-mockito/">http://www.ovirt.org/blog/2016/07/dependency-injection-and-mockito/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Application-Scoped Tests for oVirt with Arquillian</div><div><a href="http://www.ovirt.org/blog/2016/07/application-scoped-tests-for-ovirt-with-arquillian/">http://www.ovirt.org/blog/2016/07/application-scoped-tests-for-ovirt-with-arquillian/</a></div><div><br></div><div>------------------------------------</div><div>Deep Dives and Technical Discussions</div><div>------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>Self-service portals and virtualization</div><div><a href="http://red.ht/2am0xaE">http://red.ht/2am0xaE</a></div><div><br></div><div>Technical info on oVirt agent and SSO</div><div><a href="http://bit.ly/2c4R1K2">http://bit.ly/2c4R1K2</a></div><div><br></div><div>How to handle security risks in Red Hat virtualization environments</div><div><a href="http://tek.io/2c4S0d2">http://tek.io/2c4S0d2</a></div><div><br></div><div>oVirt 4.0 mit neuem Dashboard [German]</div><div><a href="http://bit.ly/2c4S8JC">http://bit.ly/2c4S8JC</a></div><div><br></div><div>----------------------</div><div>KVM Forum 2016: Slides</div><div>----------------------</div><div><br></div><div>Kernel Protection Using Hardware-Based Virtualization</div><div>By Jun Nakajima</div><div><a href="http://bit.ly/2c4R2gW">http://bit.ly/2c4R2gW</a></div><div><br></div><div>An Introduction to PCI Device Assignment with VFIO</div><div>By Alex Williamson</div><div><a href="http://bit.ly/2c4RLyL">http://bit.ly/2c4RLyL</a></div><div><br></div><div>CPU hotplug support in QEMU</div><div>By Bharata B Rao</div><div><a href="http://bit.ly/2c4SmR7">http://bit.ly/2c4SmR7</a></div><div><br></div><div>As time goes by, analysing where we spend our cycles during exits</div><div>By Christian Bornträger</div><div><a href="http://bit.ly/2c4S9gC">http://bit.ly/2c4S9gC</a></div><div><br></div><div>Nesting KVM on s390x</div><div>By David Hildenbrand</div><div><a href="http://bit.ly/2c4SkbT">http://bit.ly/2c4SkbT</a></div><div><br></div><div>Status update on KVM-COLO FT</div><div>By HailiangZhang</div><div><a href="http://bit.ly/2c4Sfou">http://bit.ly/2c4Sfou</a></div><div><br></div><div>quo vadis virtio?</div><div>By Michael S. Tsirkin</div><div><a href="http://bit.ly/2c4Tyny">http://bit.ly/2c4Tyny</a></div><div><br></div><div>atomic.h weapons: the C11 memory model and QEMU</div><div>By Paolo Bonzini</div><div><a href="http://bit.ly/2c4SVtZ">http://bit.ly/2c4SVtZ</a></div><div><br></div><div>Vhost with Guest vIOMMU</div><div>By Peter Xu</div><div><a href="http://bit.ly/2c4Ttjz">http://bit.ly/2c4Ttjz</a></div><div><br></div><div>QEMU community growth through open source internships</div><div>By Stefan Hajnoczi</div><div><a href="http://bit.ly/2c4SOhZ">http://bit.ly/2c4SOhZ</a></div><div><br></div><div>AMD’s virtualization memory encryption technology</div><div>By Thomas Lendacky</div><div><a href="http://bit.ly/2c4TvIn">http://bit.ly/2c4TvIn</a></div><div><br></div><div>Design of Vhost-pci</div><div>By Wei Wang</div><div><a href="http://bit.ly/2c4TF2v">http://bit.ly/2c4TF2v</a></div><div><br></div><div>Real Time KVM</div><div>By Rik van Riel</div><div><a href="http://bit.ly/2c4TZy8">http://bit.ly/2c4TZy8</a></div><div><br></div><div>Qemu as a USB-MTP responder</div><div>By Bandan Das</div><div><a href="http://bit.ly/2c4UeJu">http://bit.ly/2c4UeJu</a></div><div><br></div><div>Light weight virtualization with QEMU/KVM</div><div>By Chao Peng</div><div><a href="http://bit.ly/2c4SZtY">http://bit.ly/2c4SZtY</a></div><div><br></div><div>KVM on System z: The Good, the Bad and the Weird</div><div>By Cornelia Huck</div><div><a href="http://bit.ly/2c4TOD5">http://bit.ly/2c4TOD5</a></div><div><br></div><div>Libvirt Admin API - a different kind of management for libvirt</div><div>By Erik Skultety</div><div><a href="http://bit.ly/2c4TTGT">http://bit.ly/2c4TTGT</a></div><div><br></div><div>Backups with QEMU</div><div>By Max Reitz</div><div><a href="http://bit.ly/2c4TAf8">http://bit.ly/2c4TAf8</a></div><div><br></div><div>TCG enhancements for PowerPC</div><div>By Nikunj Dadhania</div><div><a href="http://bit.ly/2c4VMTE">http://bit.ly/2c4VMTE</a></div><div><br></div><div>I/O prefetch cache as QEMU block filter driver</div><div>By Pavel Butsykin</div><div><a href="http://bit.ly/2c4Ux72">http://bit.ly/2c4Ux72</a></div><div><br></div><div>QEMU support for the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture</div><div>By Sagar Karandikar</div><div><a href="http://bit.ly/2c4T3K2">http://bit.ly/2c4T3K2</a></div><div><br></div><div>Performant Security Hardening of KVM</div><div>By Steve Rutherford</div><div><a href="http://bit.ly/2c4TC6G">http://bit.ly/2c4TC6G</a></div><div><br></div><div>Microsoft Failover Clustering on KVM</div><div>By Vadim Rozenfeld</div><div><a href="http://bit.ly/2c4Trsa">http://bit.ly/2c4Trsa</a></div><div><br></div><div>VMBus (Hyper-V) devices in QEMU/KVM</div><div>By Роман Каган</div><div><a href="http://bit.ly/2c4V1Kt">http://bit.ly/2c4V1Kt</a></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Brian Proffitt<div>Principal Community Analyst</div><div>Open Source and Standards</div><div>@TheTechScribe</div><div>574.383.9BKP</div></div></div>
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