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oVirt June/July 2014 Updates
by Brian Proffitt 04 Aug '14

04 Aug '14

Summertime, and the livin' is easy... but the oVirt community has still been staying busy! Here's the latest community news from June and July as we ramp up for more events in August and beyond. What's New? * Brussels Airport Case Study posted by Brian Proffitt http://www.ovirt.org/Brussels_Airport_Case_Study * Vojtech Szocs rolled out the new oVirt.js prototype with a sample GWT wrapper http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2014-June/007698.html http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2014-June/007701.html http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2014-June/007826.html * oVirt brings order to Illinois county courts http://www.ovirt.org/Judici_Case_Study * Community project ManageIQ was officially open sourced, with instructions on how to use with oVirt http://manageiq.org/download/ovirt/ * A new RubyGems plugin monitors oVirt provisions for new hosts and performs related API calls to ovirt-engine. http://rubygems.org/gems/ovirt_provision_plugin * Francesco Romani worked on reducing the number of threads in VDSM. http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2014-June/007808.html * Christophe Fergeau continued his work on foreign menu patches in oVirt. http://www.marshut.net/iyzmhu/ovirt-foreign-menu-support.html * The oVirt 3.4.3 RC was released on July 10. http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.4.3_Release_Notes * Daniel Erez posted an oVirt Engine prototype Docker container in the official Docker registry. https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/danielerez/ovirt-engine/ * Mad Man Allon Mureinik got an oVirt ad running on StackOverflow http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/260377/open-source-advertising-side… * OriginStack produced a video on oVirt/OPenStack network integration with Neutron https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wikIIH8tLTc * The first two Test Days for oVirt 3.5 helped us make progress toward the next release http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.5_TestDay * Michal Skrivanek contributed a quick peek at the new live migration progress bar coming in oVirt 3.5. http://youtu.be/XapIZYPaRBg * Events and Activities * Kiril Nesenko educated Jenkins User Conference attendees on how to manage oVirt infrastructure with Jenkins http://lanyrd.com/2014/jenkinsconf-israel/sdbqzc/ * Rizwan Ashraf is seeking fellow oVirt users in the Bay Area for a usergroup or meetup! http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-July/025981.html * oVirt will join other community projects to present at Infrastructure.Next in Chicago on Aug. 20. * Join Yaniv Bronheim as he speaks at LinuxCon on Aug. 21 about Integrating oVirt and Foreman to Empower your Data-Center http://sched.co/1jQmiuw * Visit Red Hat Israel's offices for the first-ever DevOps at Red Hat meetup on Aug 26. http://www.meetup.com/Open-Source-Israel/events/195812602/ * oVirt will be one of many community projects represented at Fossetcon in Orlando Sep. 11-13. * The next oVirt workshop to be co-located on October 16 with KVM Forum Oct. 14-16, 2014 How to install oVirt. Room 41D pic.twitter.com/jvBCEdFzH2 * René Koch reports on oVirt open source events in Austria http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-May/024190.html * Recent Posts * Alissa Bonas published Getting the Most Out of Your Open Source Project Website http://developerblog.redhat.com/2014/06/12/getting-the-most-out-of-your-ope… * Douglas Landsgraf walked users through generating an oVirt Node ISO with modified packages http://dougsland.livejournal.com/123418.html * Fabian Deutsch introduced the all-new oVirt Engine Virtual Appliance http://dummdida.tumblr.com/post/88944206100/say-hello-to-the-ovirt-engine-v… * oVirt's July update included a sneak peek at oVirt 3.5. http://community.redhat.com/blog/2014/07/ovirt-community-update-july-2014/ * Maor Lipchuk updated the community on oVirt's Google Summer of Code programs. http://community.redhat.com/blog/2014/07/ovirt-google-summer-of-code-update/ * Amador Pahim explained how to add QEMU discard support to oVirt http://apahim.livejournal.com/2294.html -- 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 Second Test Day - Today Jul 29th
by Sandro Bonazzola 29 Jul '14

29 Jul '14

Hi all, Today Jul 29th we'll have oVirt 3.5.0 second 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 today! 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-2 [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 Second Test Day - Tomorrow Jul 29th
by Sandro Bonazzola 28 Jul '14

28 Jul '14

Hi all, Tomorrow Jul 29th we'll have oVirt 3.5.0 second 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-2 [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 Second Test Day - Tomorrow Jul 29th
by Sandro Bonazzola 28 Jul '14

28 Jul '14

Hi all, Tomorrow Jul 29th we'll have oVirt 3.5.0 second 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-2 [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 Second Test Day - Tomorrow Jul 29th
by Sandro Bonazzola 28 Jul '14

28 Jul '14

Hi all, Tomorrow Jul 29th we'll have oVirt 3.5.0 second 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_3.4.0_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-2 [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 Beta is now available for testing
by Sandro Bonazzola 23 Jul '14

23 Jul '14

The oVirt team is pleased to announce that the 3.5.0 Second Beta is now available for testing as of Jul 21th 2014. The beta is available now for Fedora 19, Fedora 20 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 (or similar). Feel free to join us testing it on Tue Jul 29th second 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. 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. [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 3.4.3 Release is now available
by Sandro Bonazzola 18 Jul '14

18 Jul '14

The oVirt development team is pleased to announce the general availability of oVirt 3.4.3 as of Jul 18th 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_3.4.3_Release_Notes [2] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-3.4/iso/ovirt-live-el6-3.4.3.iso -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com

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[ANN] oVirt 3.4.3 Release Candidate is now available
by Sandro Bonazzola 10 Jul '14

10 Jul '14

The oVirt development team is pleased to announce the availability of oVirt 3.4.3 Release Candidate as of Jul 10th 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 will be available soon[2]. Feel free to join us testing it [3]! [1] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.4.3_Release_Notes [2] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-3.4-rc/iso/ [3] http://www.ovirt.org/Testing/oVirt_3.4.3_Testing -- 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 Alpha is now available for testing
by Sandro Bonazzola 01 Jul '14

01 Jul '14

The oVirt team is pleased to announce that the 3.5.0 Second Alpha is now available for testing. Feel free to join us testing it! You'll find all needed info for installing it on the release notes page, already available on the wiki [1]. A new oVirt Live iso is already available for testing[2] including all available updates from CentOS. An oVirt Guest Tools iso is now available too[3]. A new oVirt Node build will be available soon as well. 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-3.5.repo commenting the mirror line and removing the comment on baseurl line. Known Issues You can't add hosts to 3.5 clusters until a new VDSM build with 3.5 compatibility level will be released (All in One won't work). [1] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.5_Release_Notes [2] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-3.5-pre/iso/ovirt-live-el6-3.5.0-alpha… [3] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-3.5-pre/iso/ovirt-guest-tools/ovirt-gu… -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com

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oVirt May 2014 Updates
by Itamar Heim 12 Jun '14

12 Jun '14

* What's New? * oVirt 3.4.2 Released http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-June/025030.html * oVirt 3.5.0 Alpha 2 Released http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-June/024983.html * Join oVirt Google Plus community page: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/109346090491400112913 * Folks aren't waiting for 3.5 release to start using this one http://www.ovirt.org/Features/oVirt_Windows_Guest_Tools * René Koch is looking for insights so he can extend his Monitoring plugin to Zabbix * oVirt Node with Kimchi http://www.udpwork.com/item/12557.html * Amador Pahim created a small gtk based user portal http://alturl.com/9n2ek * Started mirroring ovirt to http://ovirt-china.org/ so Chinese nationals can get access to our content. * Gianluca Cecchi is looking at localizing the GUI to Italian * Package spice-xpi is now in Trusty and Utopic (debian/ubuntu) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/943510 * Events and Activities * oVirt workshop to be co-located with KVM Forum October 14 - 16, 2014 * We may be setting up a workshop/event in China sometime in late summer, based on feedback from China users group. OSCON is next up on July 20-24, 2014 * 适兕 (lijiangsheng1) presented oVirt FUDConf APAC 2014 Beijing http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-May/024740.html * Douglas on FISL 15 http://dougsland.livejournal.com/123103.html How to install oVirt. Room 41D pic.twitter.com/jvBCEdFzH2 * René Koch reports on oVirt open source events in Austria http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-May/024190.html * Recent Posts * Brian Profit posted on LWN: Virtual data center management with oVirt 3.4 http://lwn.net/Articles/600370/ * oVirt Korea Users Group - OVIRT 3.4 ON CENTOS 6.5 http://alturl.com/fvy3w * Setting up a TFTP server, PXE boot server with libvirt and virt-manager for ovirt-node (Douglas Landgraf) http://dougsland.livejournal.com/123242.html * Dan Kenigsberg was invited to the Xen Hackathon http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2014-June/007600.html * Related: Converting a VMware virtual machine to RHEV (KVM) http://alturl.com/2p6bw * Brian Proffitt reported on his trip to FISL http://t.co/kG2N20KP4H * "Techblue Software @TechbluSoftware TBS has recently implemented a fully featured virtual data-center using ovirt."

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