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oVirt Newsletter: September 2014 Updates
by Brian Proffitt 01 Oct '14

01 Oct '14

Events are probably the big news in this month's newsletter, with oVirt community members making presentations and booth appearances in no less than eight shows between now and mid-November. October 16 will see the biggest event on the oVirt community calendar: the 2014 KVM Forum oVirt Workshop in Düsseldorf, Germany (http://www.ovirt.org/KVM_Forum_Workshop_Oct_2014) Register for this free event now and learn more about your favorite virtual data center management platform as well as meet fellow oVirt community members! Other upcoming 2014 events for oVirt include: * LinuxCon EU, Düsseldorf, Germany, Oct. 13-15 (http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-europe) * CloudOpen Europe, Düsseldorf, Germany, Oct. 13-15 (http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/cloudopen-europe) * KVM Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany, Oct. 14-16 (http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kvm-forum) * All Things Open, Raleigh, North Carolina, Oct. 22-23 (http://allthingsopen.org/) * Open World Forum 2014, Paris, France, Oct. 30-31 (http://www.openworldforum.paris/en/) * Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference, Lancaster, Pennsylvania (http://www.cposc.org/) * LISA 14, Seattle, Washington, Nov. 9-14 (https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa14) And, mark your calendars now for FOSDEM'15 in Brussels, Belgium on Jan. 31-Feb. 1, 2015! In the Community oVirt is very happy to announce its participation in the GNOME Foundation's Outreach Program for Women (http://www.ovirt.org/Outreach_Program_for_Women) Learn more today! Our community is always one of our biggest strengths, and we wanted to start celebrating them (http://community.redhat.com/blog/2014/09/ovirt-community-list/) Our new Users and Providers page does just that (http://www.ovirt.org/Users_and_Providers) This month's case study features Nimbus Concept, a Madrid consultancy that combines oVirt and other open source tools to deliver cloud-based solutions to its customers (http://www.ovirt.org/Nimbus_Concept_Case_Study) oVirt user IT Novum recently had their work highlighted in the German press as they deliver effective solutions using oVirt (http://www.it-director.de/home/a/open-source-fuer-das-rz.html) UDS Enterprise is another downstream product based on the open source oVirt project (https://www.udsenterprise.com/media/filer_public/2c/98/2c980716-2810-42a3-9…) oVirt Software Milestones The journey to oVirt 3.5 continued in September, with RC2 released Sept. 12, and RC3 (http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.5_Release_Notes) on Sept. 23. There were also two great test days (http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.5_TestDay) where many bugs were discovered and repaired. If you want to see more of 3.5 before its final release, break out the popcorn and watch our 3.5 video preview series (http://community.redhat.com/blog/2014/09/a-cinematic-peek-at-ovirt-3-5/) Meanwhile, the 3.4 branch keeps rolling along, with the release of oVirt 3.4.4 on Sept. 24 (http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.4.4_Release_Notes) GoVirt, a.k.a. libgovirt, is a GObject wrapper for the oVirt REST API. libgovirt 0.3.1 was rolled out on Sept. 3 (http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-September/027142.html) Deep Dives and Technical Discussions Robb Hamilton and Greg Sheremeta take a video tour at NCDevCon of how Bootstrap was used to created the new PatternFly interface, which will unify different community projects' interfaces, including oVirt 3.5 and above (http://textiles.online.ncsu.edu/online/Play/f962e776fb0b41968c8ff1a715a8dde…) Ravi Nori takes a Deep Dive into the Command Coordinator and Command Executor frameworks in the oVirt back end (http://youtu.be/V-mEttpaGL4) Alon Bar-Lev hosts this Google Hangout to highlight the new Authentication, Authorization and Accounting features in the upcoming oVirt 3.5 (http://youtu.be/aavmOAw7Fa8) Anmol Babu examines Monitoring Gluster Deployment (UI plugin Integrated with Nagios Monitoring) (http://youtu.be/gvLGwFfqKOo) Paul Heinlein ran into obstacles getting oVirt 3.3 VNC console sessions to launch in Mac OS X, so he set to work and now has a description of the problem and a workaround solution posted on GitHub (https://github.com/heinlein/ovirt-console) Interested in Docker? The Gluster community has posted a quick how to containerize oVirt within Docker article (http://blog.gluster.org/2014/07/ovirt-docker/) If you need to migrate VMware machines to KVM, then life is going to be better for you, according to Richard WM Jones (http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2014/08/29/virt-v2v-better-living-through-new-tec…) Here's an additional V2V tutorial for shifting VMware machines to oVirt and RHEV (http://sp4wnr0ot.blogspot.com.br/2014/09/v2v-rhev-from-vmware-55-with.html) What does persistence really mean for oVirt Node? Fabian Deutsch examines the question (http://dummdida.tumblr.com/post/97208762630/persistence) and potential solutions (http://dummdida.tumblr.com/post/97207385480/node-is-moving) Jon Benedict has a theory: VMware ESX and Red Hat's OpenStack implementation, RDO, is way too complicated. Who are we to argue (http://captainkvm.com/2014/09/esx-and-rhel-osp-just-say-no/)? When you add a new host to your oVirt Engine, your iptables rules are overwritten by oVirt deploy. The new rules might not meet your needs. But you can change this, says Eduardo Ramos (http://freedominterface.org/ovirt-host-iptables/) Ramos has also examined internal/isolated networks on oVirt (http://freedominterface.org/internal-isolated-networks-on-ovirt/) and his experiences with the Shell in the Box UI plugin for oVirt (http://freedominterface.org/?p=321) oVirt China has posted a Chinese translation of the oVirt Reports howto (http://ovirt-china.org/mediawiki/index.php/Ovirt_Reports) Another Chinese article examines the oVirt Hosted Engine and how to get it up and running (http://www.bubuko.com/infodetail-384356.html) Portuguese speakers, take note: TutoriaisGNULinux.com has posted a lot of helpful articles on oVirt (http://tutoriaisgnulinux.com/?s=ovirt&submit=Pesquisa) The ovirt-guest-agent project is formally starting to work on a guest agent for CentOS (http://www.devheads.net/people/59412) Working with oVirt Node and Foreman? Here'a a trick to prevent continuous reboots (http://dummdida.tumblr.com/post/97882897670/ovirt-node-and-foreman-reminder) How to recover a VM from an "unknown" state, from Arman Khalatyan (http://arm2armcos.blogspot.co.il/2014/09/ovirt-343-1-recover-vm-from-unknow…) Chris Cowley examines Open Source Hyper-converged Infrastructure, using oVirt along the way (http://www.chriscowley.me.uk/blog/2014/09/19/open-source-hyper-converged-in…) Ansible has a new module to handle oVirt and RHEV platform management (http://docs.ansible.com/ovirt_module.html) How to set up additional subnet IPs on oVirt guests on a Hetzner dedicated server (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26096571/how-to-set-up-additional-subnet…) -- (With thanks to Itamar Heim!) -- Brian Proffitt Community Liaison oVirt Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com Phone: +1 574 383 9BKP IRC: bkp @ OFTC

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[ANN] oVirt 3.4.4 Release is now available
by Sandro Bonazzola 30 Sep '14

30 Sep '14

The oVirt development team is pleased to announce the general availability of oVirt 3.4.4 as of Sep 23th 2014. This release solidifies oVirt as a leading KVM management application and open source alternative to VMware vSphere. oVirt is available now for Fedora 19 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 (or similar). This release of oVirt includes numerous bug fixes. See the release notes [1] for a list of the new features and bugs fixed. The existing repository ovirt-3.4 has been updated for delivering this release without the need of enabling any other repository, however since we introduced package signing you need an additional step in order to get the public keys installed on your system if you're upgrading from an older release. Please refer to release notes [1] for Installation / Upgrade instructions. Please note that mirrors will need a couple of days before being synchronized. If you want to be sure to use latest rpms and don't want to wait for the mirrors, you can edit /etc/yum.repos.d/ovirt-3.4.repo commenting the mirror line and removing the comment on baseurl line. A new oVirt Live ISO will be available too[2]. [1] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.4.4_Release_Notes [2] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-3.4/iso/ovirt-live-el6-3.4.4.iso -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com

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[ANN] oVirt 3.5.0 Third Release Candidate is now available for testing
by Sandro Bonazzola 26 Sep '14

26 Sep '14

The oVirt team is pleased to announce that the 3.5.0 Third Release Candidate is now available for testing as of Sep 24th 2014. The release candidate is available now for Fedora 19, Fedora 20 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 (or similar) and allow you to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 as node and run Hosted Engine. This release of oVirt includes numerous bug fixes. See the release notes [1] for a list of the new features and bugs fixed. The existing repository ovirt-3.5-pre has been updated for delivering this release without the need of enabling any other repository. If you're already using oVirt 3.5 repository, please update ovirt-release35 rpm. Please refer to release notes [1] for Installation / Upgrade instructions. New oVirt Live, oVirt Guest Tools and oVirt Node ISO will be available soon as well[2]. Please note that mirrors may need usually one day before being synchronized. If you want to be sure to use latest rpms and don't want to wait for the mirrors, you can edit /etc/yum.repos.d/ovirt-3.5.repo commenting the mirror line and removing the comment on baseurl line. Please refer to the release notes for known issues in this release. [1] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.5_Release_Notes [2] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-3.5-pre/iso/ -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com

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Registration Now Open for the oVirt Workshop, Oct. 16!
by Brian Proffitt 23 Sep '14

23 Sep '14

As oVirt strives to become the best open source and comprehensive data center virtualization management suite, and its community rapidly evolves and grows, one of the ways its vibrant community connects is through our Global Workshops. The events are conducted solely to introduce new users and veteran oVirt admins to new features and new techniques found in oVirt, as well as provide a forum for our users to connect directly with the development team behind oVirt. With that in mind, we are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 2014 oVirt Workshop[1]! The 2014 oVirt workshop will be co-located with the KVM Forum[2] in Düsseldorf, Germany[3]on October 16, 2014. This workshop is designed to encourage collaboration in our community, lay the foundation for best practices in oVirt use, convey end-user stories, and help answer questions about the project from both a developer and user's perspective. Attendees can register free-of-charge[4] to the Workshop alone, or, if attending LinuxCon EU[5], CloudOpen Europe[6], Embedded Linux Conference[7], or KVM Forum[8], can also add this free Workshop to their itineraries when registering. We look forward to seeing you there! [1] http://www.ovirt.org/KVM_Forum_Workshop_Oct_2014 [2] http//events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kvm-forum [3] http://ow.ly/BPSnM [4] https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1625495 [5] http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-europe/extend-the-experie… [6] http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/cloudopen-europe/extend-the-experi… [7] http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/embedded-linux-conference-europe/e… [8] http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kvm-forum/extend-the-experience/co… -- Brian Proffitt Community Liaison oVirt Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com Phone: +1 574 383 9BKP IRC: bkp @ OFTC

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New Case Study
by Brian Proffitt 17 Sep '14

17 Sep '14

A new case study has been posted on the oVirt web site, revealing the details of Spanish consulting firm Nimbus Concept, which is doing a great job using oVirt, Gluster and OpenStack to deliver great solutions to its customers! Learn more at: http://www.ovirt.org/Nimbus_Concept_Case_Study -- Brian Proffitt Community Liason oVirt Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com Phone: +1 574 383 9BKP IRC: bkp @ OFTC

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[ANN] oVirt 3.5 Third Test Day - Wed Sep 17th
by Sandro Bonazzola 15 Sep '14

15 Sep '14

Hi all, On Wed Sep 17th (instead of Sep 16th) we'll have oVirt 3.5.0 third test day. On this day all relevant engineers will be online ready to support any issues you find during install / operating this new release. Just make sure you have 1 host or more to test drive the new release. If you're curious to see how it works, this is your chance. Thanks again for everyone who will join us tomorrow! Location #ovirt irc channel Please communicate here to allow others to see any issues What In this test day you have a license to kill ;) Follow the documentation to setup your environment, and test drive the new features. Please remember we expect to see some issues, and anything you come up with will save you when you'll install final release Remember to try daily tasks you'd usually do in the engine, to see there are no regressions. Write down the configuration you used (HW, console, etc) in the report etherpad[1]. Documentation Release notes: http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.5_Release_Notes Features pages links: http://bit.ly/17qBn6F If you find errors in the wiki please annotate it as well in report etherpad [1] Prerequisites / recommendations Use CentOS or RHEL 6.5 only. 6.4 is unsupported due to various issues (sanlock, libvirt, etc). Use Fedora 19 or 20. Latest RPMs repository to be enabled for testing the release are listed in the release notes page [2]. NEW issues / reports For any new issue, please update the reports etherpad [1] Feature owners, please make sure: your feature is updated and referenced on release page [2]. you have testing instruction for your feature either on test day page [3] or in your feature page. your team regression testing section is organized and up to date on test day page [3]. [1] http://etherpad.ovirt.org/p/3.5-testday-3 [2] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.5_Release_Notes [3] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.5_TestDay Thanks. -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com

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[ANN] oVirt 3.5.0 Second Release Candidate is now available for testing
by Sandro Bonazzola 12 Sep '14

12 Sep '14

The oVirt team is pleased to announce that the 3.5.0 Second Release Candidate is now available for testing as of Sep 11th 2014. The release candidate is available now for Fedora 19, Fedora 20 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 (or similar) and allow you to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 as node and run Hosted Engine. Feel free to join us testing it on Tue 2014-09-16 third test day! This release of oVirt includes numerous bug fixes. See the release notes [1] for a list of the new features and bugs fixed. The existing repository ovirt-3.5-pre has been updated for delivering this release without the need of enabling any other repository. If you're already using oVirt 3.5 repository, please update ovirt-release35 rpm. Please refer to release notes [1] for Installation / Upgrade instructions. New oVirt Live, oVirt Guest Tools and oVirt Node ISO will be available soon as well[2]. Please note that mirrors may need usually one day before being synchronized. If you want to be sure to use latest rpms and don't want to wait for the mirrors, you can edit /etc/yum.repos.d/ovirt-3.5.repo commenting the mirror line and removing the comment on baseurl line. Please refer to the release notes for known issues in this release. [1] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.5_Release_Notes [2] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-3.5-pre/iso/ -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com

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[ANN] oVirt 3.4.4 Release Candidate is now available
by Sandro Bonazzola 09 Sep '14

09 Sep '14

The oVirt development team is pleased to announce the availability of oVirt 3.4.4 Release Candidate as of Sep 9th 2014 for testing. oVirt is available now for Fedora 19 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 (or similar). This release of oVirt includes numerous bug fixes. See the release notes [1] for a list of the new features and bugs fixed. The new repository ovirt-3.4-rc has been updated for delivering this release, please refer to release notes [1] for instructions on how to enable the repository and for Installation / Upgrade instructions. A new oVirt Live ISO is also available[2]. Feel free to join us testing it [3]! [1] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.4.4_Release_Notes [2] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-3.4-rc/iso/ovirt-live-el6-3.4.4_rc.iso [3] http://www.ovirt.org/Testing/oVirt_3.4.4_Testing -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com

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oVirt August 2014 UPdates
by Brian Proffitt 02 Sep '14

02 Sep '14

Who says summertime is lazy and carefree? Not the members of the oVirt community, who are hard at work all year long! Here's what they've been working on in August! --Community News-- * oVirt finished participation in Google Summer of Code, with much success on the part of the students and mentors! Details to follow! * oVirt had a great showing at LinuxCon/CloudOpen North America http://community.redhat.com/blog/2014/08/report-ovirt-at-linuxcon/ * oVirt 3.5 RC1 was released on August 5: http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.5_Release_Notes following a useful second test day in late July: http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.5_TestDay * Reaching the community is job #1 for a successful open source website. Alissa Bonas discusses best practices at: https://opensource.com/business/14/8/open-source-project-front-door * Red Hat Israel hosted its first DevOps meetup this month! Presentations can be found online now: http://www.meetup.com/Open-Source-Israel/files/ * Learn more about the team behind OriginStack http://www.nimbusconcept.com/index-en.html * Want to help oVirt development and are using LDAP integration, then you can help us test a new feature http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2014-August/008367.html * China may be in need of a different glance end point (Chinese): http://mathslinux.org/?p=567 --HOWTOs and Tutorials-- * Integrating oVirt and Foreman to Empower your Data-Center by Yaniv Bronhaim at LinuxCon NA 2014 http://youtu.be/gozX891kYAY * Download and install ManageIQ for oVirt (Caution: these are instructions for the anand release candidate. Things may be unstable, and may break. If you're looking for adventure, please proceed at http://manageiq.org/download/ovirt/) * A howto manual on the deployment and use of oVirt and Gluster (Chinese) https://inthecloud.readthedocs.org/zh_CN/latest/ * FileCloud's Introduction to Top Open Source Virtualization Tools http://www.getfilecloud.com/blog/2014/08/introduction-to-top-open-source-vi… * oVirt 3.5: Snapshots Overview http://youtu.be/10z7tqbTt5Q * Learn how to migrate VMs/templates between data centers with detach/attach of storage domain in oVirt 3.5: http://www.ovirt.org/Features/ImportUnregisteredEntities * Discover how the kdump mechanism is integrated into oVirt 3.5 in this Google Hangout hosted by Martin Penina: http://youtu.be/RAGV_za_Qvw * oVirt 3.5 will have much more robust storage domain management, as you can see at: http://www.ovirt.org/Features/ImportStorageDomain#Work_flow_for_Import_File… * Expediting Infrastructure IV: Working with oVirt (Spanish) http://blog.sotoca.es/2014/08/agilizando-la-infraestructura-iv.html * Roozbeh Shafiee posted an intro to #oVirt and #RHEV (Farsi) http://roozbehshafiee.com/virtualization/enterprise-virtualization-in-linux… * Piotr Kliczewski hosted a hangout this month on working with the Jsonrpc Protocol over STOMP in oVirt. Check out the video at: http://youtu.be/0FwM2oeb788 * Jason Williams walks readers through a useful home server setup that features oVirt: http://www.jason.jnf.me/blog/post/95829721478/home-server-setup-useful-links * Learn more about the new Neutron Virtual Appliance http://youtu.be/naLFSFwHI94 * Ben Draper walks through installing hosted engine in 3.4: https://xrsa.net/2014/08/13/installing-ovirt-3-4-hosted-engine/ * How to change host name in oVirt 3.3 (Japanese): http://akira-junkbox.blogspot.co.il/2014/08/ovirt.html * The Korea oVirt User Group on SPM's 3.6 decommissioning: http://ovirtkorea.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/ovirt-3-6%EC%97%90%EC%84%9C-spm-… * Running virt-sysprep against a RHEV virtual machine running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (http://www.outsidaz.org/blog/2013/11/07/running-virt-sysprep-against-a-rhev…) --Events and Activities-- * oVirt will be featured this September at the inaugural launch of Fossetcon on Sept. 11-13 http://fossetcon.org/2014/session/open-source-virtualization-ovirt * Going to be in Duesseldorf in October? Come learn about Smart VM Scheduling in an oVirt Cluster from Martin Sivak at LinuxCon EU: http://sched.co/1BnNQ6M * Another LinuxCon EU presentation to check out Tomas Jelinek's talk on moVirt - Mobile Application for Monitoring of oVirt Datacenter: http://sched.co/Xn6cp2 -- Brian Proffitt oVirt Community Manager Project Atomic Community Lead Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com Phone: +1 574 383 9BKP IRC: bkp @ OFTC

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[ANN] oVirt 3.5.0 First Release Candidate is now, available for testing
by Sandro Bonazzola 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

The oVirt team is pleased to announce that the 3.5.0 First Release Candidate is now available for testing as of Aug 5th 2014. The release candidate is available now for Fedora 19, Fedora 20 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 (or similar) and allow you to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 as node and run Hosted Engine. Feel free to join us testing it on Tue Aug 12th third test day! This release of oVirt includes numerous bug fixes. See the release notes [1] for a list of the new features and bugs fixed. The existing repository ovirt-3.5-pre has been updated for delivering this release without the need of enabling any other repository. If you're already using ovirt repository on EL7, please update ovirt-release3.5 rpm, it will provide additional repositories for it. Please refer to release notes [1] for Installation / Upgrade instructions. New oVirt Live, oVirt Guest Tools and oVirt Node ISO will be available soon as well[2]. Please note that mirrors may need a couple of days before being synchronized. If you want to be sure to use latest rpms and don't want to wait for the mirrors, you can edit /etc/yum.repos.d/ovirt-3.5.repo commenting the mirror line and removing the comment on baseurl line. Known issues in this RC: - Bug 1124099 - Live Merge: Limit merge operations based on hosts' capabilities - ovirt-optimizer has not been updated for EL6 due to dependencies issues - vdsm for EL7 is missing a couple of patches compared to other distro due to building issues [1] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.5_Release_Notes [2] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-3.5-pre/iso/ -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com

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