How do you oVirt?
by Sandro Bonazzola
As we continue to develop oVirt 4.2 and future releases, the Development
and Integration teams at Red Hat would value
insights on how you are deploying the oVirt environment.
Please help us to hit the mark by completing this short survey. Survey will
close on April 15th
Here's the link to the survey:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdloxiIP2HrW2HguU0UVbNtKgpSBaJXj...
Thanks,
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Get Involved with the oVirt Project! Spring 2017 Edition
by Sandro Bonazzola
Hi,
Got some time to spare? Join us on the oVirt project!
oVirt is a feature rich server virtualization management system with
advanced capabilities. It also provides a crucial venue for user and
developer cooperation, and is the first truly open and comprehensive data
center virtualization management initiative.
If you are new to oVirt, we recommend that you visit the develop
<https://www.ovirt.org/develop/> page to learn more about the project, and
the working with Gerrit
<https://www.ovirt.org/develop/dev-process/working-with-gerrit/> page for
more about our code review system. If you haven’t worked with Gerrit
before, we recommend you visit the introduction to Gerrit
<https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation> page.
On our community page <https://www.ovirt.org/community/> you’ll discover
the many ways in which you can contribute to the project, even without
programming skills.
More suggestions? Below you’ll find other ways in which you can contribute
to the oVirt project.
Keep ‘em Fresh
Like the idea of having fresh disk images of your favorite distribution in
the oVirt Glance repository? You can help in two ways: First, test existing
online images to ensure that they work with cloud-init. Second, create an
online image and report your success to devel(a)ovirt.org. We’ll be happy to
upload the images once they are ready.
Get Vdsm Running on Debian
If you like Debian and have programming or packaging skills, you can help
with the ongoing effort to get VDSM running on Debian
<https://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/debian-support-...>.
All the current work on Debian (VDSM and related packages) can be found in
the Debian git repositories <http://git.debian.org/>. You can also keep up
to date on how the work is progressing by subscribing to the oVirt devel
mailing list <http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/devel>.
Fix Some Bugs
These bugs are just waiting to be resolved:
Bug ID
Summary
1411133
Hosted-Engine: iscsi activation storage failing
1209881
[RFE] Remove iptables from hosted-engine.spec file to be able to deploy
hosted-engine without firewall services installed
1353713
[RFE] - iSCSI Setup Should use different User/Password For Discovery and
Portal
1130445
[TEXT] - If engine-setup asks for updates and choice is no, suggest
'--offline' on re-run.
1174236
[RFE] Integrate installation with Server Roles of Fedora Server
1356425
[TEXT] 'hosted-engine --vm-start' said it destroyed the VM
1328488
The engine fails with oracle java8
Port oVirt to Your Favorite Distribution
Are you sure-handed at packaging software, and using a distribution
currently unsupported by oVirt? Help to get oVirt ported to any of the
following distributions:
Fedora <http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2015-September/011426.html>
CentOS <https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Virtualization>
Gentoo <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OVirt>. Also, check out Google Summer
of Code <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2016/Ideas> to
learn how you can contribute to Gentoo and get paid for it!
Debian
<http://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/debian-support-f...>:
Archlinux <http://www.ovirt.org/develop/developer-guide/arch-linux/>
OpenSUSE <https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/Virtualization:oVirt>
Get into DevOps
If you love DevOps and find yourself counting stable builds in Jenkins CI
while trying to fall asleep, then the oVirt infrastructure team is looking
for you! Join us and dive into the latest and coolest DevOps tools today!
Check out these open tasks
<https://ovirt-jira.atlassian.net/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=6.>.
You can also help by telling us how you use oVirt in your DevOps
environment. Email us at devel(a)ovirt.org (Please use [DevOps] in the
subject line. For more information on oVirt DevOps, visit oVirt
infrastructure docs
<http://ovirt-infra-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/> and oVirt
infra documentation
<http://www.ovirt.org/develop/infra/infrastructure-documentation/>.
Improve the oVirt System Testing
Make oVirt system testing
<https://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=ovirt-system-tests.git;a=summary> - and
the Lago system <https://github.com/lago-project/lago> that runs it - even
better. Visit Lago project documentation
<http://lago.readthedocs.io/en/stable/> to learn how to run the test suite
yourself.
More Bugs, No Coding Required
No time for DevOps and you are not a programer? You can still contribute.
Here are some easy bugs to fix
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=classification%3Aovir...>
that don’t require a single line of code.
Tests to Run
Do you prefer to test things? Here are some test cases you can try
<http://www.ovirt.org/develop/infra/testing/>, using nightly snapshots
<http://www.ovirt.org/develop/dev-process/install-nightly-snapshot/>.
Switching to Fedora 25
For oVirt 4.2, support for Fedora will be based on Fedora 25. You can help
to get it ready by running nightly snapshots
<http://www.ovirt.org/develop/dev-process/install-nightly-snapshot/> and
reporting any issues.
Create Your Own Test Cases
We’d love you to contribute some much needed test cases for oVirt features
<http://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/>.
Get Creative
You are welcome to contribute artwork, such as oVirt live backgrounds and
covers, release banners, stickers, and t-shirt designs. Check out Fedora
artworks <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork#Resources> for inspiration.
Get Alternative
Into alternative architectures? Test ppc64le
<https://cbs.centos.org/repos/virt7-ovirt-41-release/ppc64le/> and aarch64
<https://cbs.centos.org/repos/virt7-ovirt-41-release/aarch64/> packages
from CentOS Virt SIG.
Talk to Us!
Feel free to ask any other question about development by emailing us at
devel(a)ovirt.org, or by reaching out on the IRC channel
<https://www.ovirt.org/community/>.
Spread the Good News
Help to spread the word about oVirt! We are the complete virtual machine
management system that’s free and comes with an impressive list of enterprise
capabilities
<http://www.zdnet.com/article/how-much-longer-can-red-hats-ovirt-remain-co...>
including live migration, high availability, load balancing, a self-hosted
engine, an intuitive user-interface, and much more.
How to Contribute
If you’d like to get involved, we’d love to hear from you! Simply shoot us
an email at devel(a)ovirt.org and tell us how you’d like to contribute.
We look forward to hearing from you!.
The oVirt Development Team
oVirt: Better technology. Faster Innovation. Powered by community
innovation.
7 years, 1 month
[ANN] oVirt 4.1.1 Third Release Candidate
by Sandro Bonazzola
The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the Third
Release Candidate of oVirt 4.1.1 for testing, as of March 16th, 2017
This is pre-release software. Please take a look at our community page[1]
to know how to ask questions and interact with developers and users.
All issues or bugs should be reported via oVirt Bugzilla[2].
This pre-release should not to be used in production.
This update is the third release candidate of the first in a series of
stabilization updates to the 4.1 series.
4.1.1 brings 35 enhancements and more than 390 bugfixes,
including more than 160 high or urgent
severity fixes, on top of oVirt 4.1 series
This release is available now for:
* Fedora 24 (tech preview)
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 or later
* CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.3 or later
This release supports Hypervisor Hosts running:
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 or later
* CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.3 or later
* Fedora 24 (tech preview)
See the release notes draft [3] for installation / upgrade instructions and
a list of new features and bugs fixed.
Notes:
- oVirt node and oVirt Live have been already built [4]
- oVirt Engine Appliance has been already built
Additional Resources:
* Read more about the oVirt 4.1.1 release highlights:
http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.1.1/
* 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/4.1.1/
[4] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.1-pre/iso/
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[ANN] oVirt 4.1.1 Second Release Candidate
by Sandro Bonazzola
The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the Second
Release Candidate of oVirt 4.1.1 for testing, as of March 9th, 2017
This is pre-release software. Please take a look at our community page[1]
to know how to ask questions and interact with developers and users.
All issues or bugs should be reported via oVirt Bugzilla[2].
This pre-release should not to be used in production.
This update is the second release candidate of the first in a series of
stabilization updates to the 4.1 series.
4.1.1 brings 32 enhancements and more than 370 bugfixes,
including more than 150 high or urgent
severity fixes, on top of oVirt 4.1 series
This release is available now for:
* Fedora 24 (tech preview)
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 or later
* CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.3 or later
This release supports Hypervisor Hosts running:
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 or later
* CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.3 or later
* Fedora 24 (tech preview)
See the release notes draft [3] for installation / upgrade instructions and
a list of new features and bugs fixed.
Notes:
- oVirt Live and oVirt node have been already built [4]
- oVirt Engine Appliance had been already built
Additional Resources:
* Read more about the oVirt 4.1.1 release highlights:
http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.1.1/
* 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/4.1.1/
[4] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.1-pre/iso/
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[ANN] oVirt 4.1.1 First Release Candidate
by Sandro Bonazzola
The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the First
Release Candidate of oVirt 4.1.1 for testing, as of March 3rd, 2017
This is pre-release software. Please take a look at our community page[1]
to know how to ask questions and interact with developers and users.
All issues or bugs should be reported via oVirt Bugzilla[2].
This pre-release should not to be used in production.
This update is the first release candidate of the first in a series of
stabilization updates to the 4.1 series.
4.1.1 brings 26 enhancements and more than 350 bugfixes,
including more than 130 high or urgent
severity fixes, on top of oVirt 4.1 series
This release is available now for:
* Fedora 24 (tech preview)
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 or later
* CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.3 or later
This release supports Hypervisor Hosts running:
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 or later
* CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.3 or later
* Fedora 24 (tech preview)
See the release notes draft [3] for installation / upgrade instructions and
a list of new features and bugs fixed.
Notes:
- oVirt Live has been already built [4]
- oVirt Node and Appliance has not been built for this release due to build
issues we're still investigating.
Additional Resources:
* Read more about the oVirt 4.1.1 release highlights:
http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.1.1/
* 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/4.1.1/
[4] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.1-pre/iso/
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Sandro Bonazzola
Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration.
See how it works at redhat.com
7 years, 1 month