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oVirt Updates - November 2013
by Itamar Heim 25 Nov '13

25 Nov '13

Case Studies - Dave Neary just published his interview with Martin Goldstone and Gary Lloyd, system administrators at the Keele university http://www.ovirt.org/Keele_University_case_study (we'd be happy to have more case studies, please contact Dave if you are willing to do one - its mostly just an interview with him) oVirt 3.3 - 3.3.1 with a slew of updates is finally out. http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.3.1_release_notes - 3.3.2 beta planned once we GA 3.3.1. - sample scheduler plugins available here http://www.ovirt.org/External_Scheduler_Samples oVirt 3.4 - planning is on going, please join and help make oVirt better http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-October/017451.html (clearly, only items with devel owners will make it) Conferences - Einav presented at an oVirt booth in LISA 2013 (Washington, DC) - Fosdem virt & IaaS devroom CFP[1] is open till December 1st http://bit.ly/1gMXdUH We also requested a stand/table/booth to demo oVirt (we'd love if oVirt users visiting Fosdem would volunteer to help man the stand/demo) - KVM Forum/CloudOpen sessions available http://www.ovirt.org/KVM_Forum_2013 Cross Distro - guest agent packages are now available for OpenSUSE 12.3, 13.1 and Factory, and SLES 11 SP3. (thanks Vinzenz for pushing and René for testing) - Ubuntu packages pushed by Zhou Zheng Sheng. - How To: Get oVirt 3.2 All-In-One working on Scientific Linux 6.4 (With fixes!) http://bit.ly/17BstPj Related - How to manage multiple nodes with oVirt (Japanese) http://lab.space-i.com/?p=1252 - oVirt node has a new plugin, allowing it to be used for The Foreman host discovery http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8TugleqF64 - how to use virt-sysprep with oVirt/RHEV http://bit.ly/1hy54Xx - script to easily move VMs by name from export domain https://github.com/ppiersonbt/ovfmaker - some oVirt and Dell Equalogic issues discussions http://dell.to/1gN3TlX http://bit.ly/1cXrIH2 - Intro to oVirt on Fedora (Spanish) http://www.itrestauracion.com.ar/?p=1505 - Christophe Fergeau published libgovirt 0.3.0 (storage domains, cd-rom and certificate handling improvements) http://red.ht/HVl4U2 - helper script by Humble to print list of VMs and their nic/mac/ip http://bit.ly/1ePpMjF - Want to play with oVirt Neutron and GRE Tunneling? http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_Neutron_GRE_Integration_-_How_To - How To: Install rhev-agents on Scientific Linux 6x http://bit.ly/1cZRydo - How To: Convert a server running on VMware ESXi 5x to oVirt 3.2 http://bit.ly/17x2X1O

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oVirt 3.3.1 rlease
by Kiril Nesenko 22 Nov '13

22 Nov '13

The oVirt development team is very happy to announce the general availability of oVirt 3.3.1 as of November 21th 2013. 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 6.4 (or similar). See release notes [1] for a list of the new features and bug fixed. [1] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.3.1_release_notes - Kiril

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oVirt 3.3.1 RC
by Sandro Bonazzola 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

The oVirt team is pleased to announce that the 3.3.1 Release candidate is now available in beta [1] and will be released on Tue Nov 19th 2013 if no other blockers will be found while we're testing it [2]. Feel free to join us verifying the bugzilla entries actually under verification [3]. Release notes for this update are available on the wiki [4]. A new oVirt Node build will be available soon as well. [1] http://resources.ovirt.org/releases/beta [2] http://www.ovirt.org/Testing/Ovirt_3.3.1_testing [3] http://red.ht/1gQAdEo [4] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.3.1_release_notes -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com

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oVirt Updates - Special KVM Forum/oVirt edition
by Itamar Heim 27 Oct '13

27 Oct '13

A great week at linuxcon/cloudopen/kvmforum/ovirt conference at Edinburgh, and some other nice feedback on oVirt, meriting a special edition of this update. Feel free to chime in with your feedback as well. It is sometimes hard to remember we only released oVirt 3.0 last year, and that it takes time to get traction. For example, see slide 3 in the presentation i gave on oVirt Updates[1] to see the clear trend in adoption (via total users mailing list addresses). Similarly, in Livnat's oVirt-intro session at CloudOpen, with ~75 people in the room, almost all raised their hand on her question "who knows/has oVirt". We had a plethora of topics (same link as [1]), but i wanted to highlight: SUSE support During Livnat's talk, a question was raised wrt SUSE support. Asking for more details, we got ~"I'm running oVirt in testing and RHEV in production. with 200 SUSE 10/11 servers. I just want the guest-agent to have their ip address in the gui". So first of all, good to know SUSE runs as a guest without issues. Also, the guest-agent itself is just a python script that should just work. Just some packaging is required, so we're looking to revamp this in build.opensuse.org, and hope some SUSE users will help us with closing and testing this one. In related SUSE news, I just saw this posted "After looking into oVirt it looks absolutely fantastic. Might look into seeing if I can help with porting this to openSUSE. What kind of work is involved in the porting of the application like this?" (discussion ongoing) on PPC: Leonardo from the Eldorado research center in Brazil gave a lecture on their work to add PPC support to oVirt. Paul Mackerras (KVM PPC developer) from IBM and Alexenader Graf attended and gave a lot of feedback, and potential interest from other PPC vendors, which should be hopefully mostly config level changes. User Stories: Keele university presented their path to oVirt. Always nice to hear how our project is used, and we actually asked them a lot of questions on why/how they use it the way they do. They also did a case study with Dave Neary, which i hope to see more from oVirt community members. Also, always nice to hear: in an irc chat on #ovirt: "I looked at ovirt about 4 months ago and when I came back a few days ago I was blown away at how far it had come! The devs have done an awesome job". All KVM Forum/oVirt sessions slides (and youtube's) should be available here[1] Thanks, Itamar [1] oVirt Updates session by Itamar Heim http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRCSQmAOh7yzgheq-emy1xA

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oVirt 3.3.1 Beta now available
by Mike Burns 22 Oct '13

22 Oct '13

The oVirt team is pleased to announce that the 3.3.1 Release is now available in beta. Release notes for this update are still being worked on, but information on the changes can be found on the wiki[1]. A new oVirt Node build will be available soon as well. Mike [1] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.3.1_release_notes

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oVirt October Updates
by Itamar Heim 22 Oct '13

22 Oct '13

Hope to meet many next week in LinuxCon Europe/KVM Forum/oVirt conference in Edinburgh Highlights: - oVirt 3.3 GA of course! some links covering it[10] - more links in Russian, Japanese, German and Italian [15] - oVirt 3.3.1 nearing beta this will include a slew of bug fixes, and a few items which missed 3.3. - Malini Rao sent a proposal for some UI changes[4] - some pluggable scheduler samples are available[5] - Summarized 3.4 community requests, hope the top ones will make it to 3.4[6] - 3.4 cycle - planned to be a shorter cycle, trying to make features available faster. - René Koch published version 0.1 of Monitoring UI-Plugin[8] - a new oVirt module merged to Ansible - covers VM life cycle (create/start/stop/etc.) [11] - a puppet module to deploy ovirt engine and ovirt node[12] - and a chef one[14] (both by Jason Cannon) Conferences: - LinuxCon Europe/KVM Forum/oVirt - next week in Edinburgh LOTs of sessions: http://www.ovirt.org/KVM_Forum_2013 - FOSDEM 2014 - We will be co-organizing a "Virtualization and IaaS" DevRoom with +Lars Kurth, +Itamar Heim and +Thierry Carrez as DevRoom organizers - past: Open World Forum - Building an open hybrid cloud with open source[13] K-LUG - Rochester, MN Area Linux Users Group - oVirt intro[16] Other: - a 3 part series by Humble on using the python sdk: How to shutdown/stop or start virtual machines (VMs) in ovirt DC automatically?[1] List Datacenter, hypervisors/host,vms in an ovirt DC with its name,status,id..etc[2] Find out hosts and clusters where vm is running. its status, ids, storage domain details in an ovirt dc[3] - another one by Humble: Convert physical/virtual systems to virtual using virt-p2v && virt-v2v then use it in ovirt DC[7] - LINBIT published "High-Availability oVirt-Cluster with iSCSI-Storage"[9] Have Fun, Itamar [1] http://humblec.com/ovirt-shutdownstop-start-virtual-machines-vms-ovirt-dc-a… [2] http://humblec.com/ovirt-list-datacenter-hypervisorshostvms-ovirt-dc-status… [3] http://humblec.com/ovirt-find-hosts-clusters-vm-running-status-ids-storage-… [4] http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-October/017088.html [5] http://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=ovirt-scheduler-proxy.git;a=tree;f=plugins… [6] http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-October/016898.html [7] http://humblec.com/convert-physical-virtual-virtual-using-virt-v2v-virt-p2v… [8] http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-October/016842.html [9] note: link requires registeration: http://www.linbit.com/en/company/news/333-high-available-virtualization-at-… the pdf is: http://www.linbit.com/en/downloads/tech-guides?download=68:high-availabilit… [10] ovirt 3.3 ga links http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/announce/2013-September/000061.html http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.3_release_announcement http://www.redhat.com/about/news/archive/2013/9/ovirt-3-3-release-brings-op… http://community.redhat.com/ovirt-3-3-glusterized/ http://community.redhat.com/ovirt-3-3-spices-up-the-software-defined-datace… http://www.tuicool.com/articles/eIJnMr http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQ2MzQ http://captainkvm.com/2013/09/614/ http://www.vmwareindex.com/category/hadoop-splunk/openstack/ovirt-3-3-is-no… http://thehyperadvisor.com/2013/09/17/ovirt-3-3-is-now-released/ [11] https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/3838 [12] http://forge.puppetlabs.com/jcannon/ovirt/0.0.1 [13] http://www.openworldforum.org/en/schedule/1/ http://www.openworldforum.org/en/speakers/49/ [14] http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks/ovirt [15] russian: http://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=38000 http://ru.fedoracommunity.org/content/%D0%92%D1%8B%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%BB-ovirt-… http://linuxforum.ru/viewtopic.php?id=30572 http://citrix.pp.ru/news/2214-novaya-versiya-sistemy-upravleniya-infrastruk… german: http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/20258/ovirt-33-unterstuetzt-openstack.html japanese: http://en.sourceforge.jp/magazine/13/09/25/163000 italian: http://www.freeonline.org/cs/com/la-release-ovirt-3-3-integra-openstack-e-g… http://www.tomshw.it/cont/news/open-source-red-hat-gestisce-la-virtualizzaz… [16] http://k-lug.org/OldNews

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oVirt 3.3.0.1 Update Release now available
by Mike Burns 18 Oct '13

18 Oct '13

The oVirt Team is pleased to announce the availability of the 3.3.0.1 Update Release. This release fixes a number of issues with the 3.3.0 release. The release includes updates to the following packages: ovirt-engine vdsm ovirt-engine-log-collector ovirt-engine-iso-uploader ovirt-engine-image-uploader Information on the issues fixed is below. Thanks The oVirt Team """ A vdsm bug (BZ#1007980) made it impossible to migrate or re-run a VM with a glusterfs-backed virtual disk if the VM was originally started with an empty cdrom. If you have encountered this bug, you would have to manually find the affected VMs with psql -U engine -d engine -c "select distinct vm_name from vm_static, vm_device where vm_guid=vm_id and device='cdrom' and address ilike '%pci%';" and remove their junk cdrom address with psql -U engine -d engine -c "update vm_device set address='' where device='cdrom' and address ilike '%pci%';" """ A vdsm bug introduced in a specific case of disk resize (raw on nfs) accidentally wipes the content of the virtual disk. The issue was masked on the master (and ovirt-3.3) branch by an unrelated change that happened to fix the problem leaving only vdsm-4.12 affected. It is of critical importance to update all your machines to the new vdsm release. """ An engine-setup bug (BZ#1014115) made setup log the database-access password when upgrading from 3.2. If you've upgraded from an older release you may want to secure or delete existing setup log files in /var/log/ovirt-engine/setup/ An engine bug (BZ#1008938) caused VM failing to start running after changing the interface of bootable disk in UI. An engine bug (BZ#1017285) may have caused upcoming ovirt-3.3.1 nodes and hosts with vdsm >= 4.13.0 not to be accepted as hypervisors. """

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Re: [Users] Announcement: oVirt 3.3.0 release!
by Steve Dainard 18 Sep '13

18 Sep '13

Awesome. Dave can you have someone edit the installation page and specifically mention that EL hypervisors don't have native Gluster (fuse only) support - It would be very frustrating to think you can have all the features, and OS stability as well, only to find out EL doesn't support a key feature. I've seen lots of requests on the board for a back-port so this might preempt more questions / problems. *Steve * * * On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Dave Neary <dneary(a)redhat.com> wrote: > > The oVirt development team is very happy to announce the general > availability of oVirt 3.3.0 as of September 16th 2013. 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 6.4 > (or similar). > > Get started with oVirt now! http://www.ovirt.org/Download > > Chief among the many new features in the release are: > > * Tight integration with Gluster - take advantage of native GlusterFS > support, or use oVirt to manage your Gluster bricks > * Integration with OpenStack - share images stored in Glance, and take > advantage of Neutron integration for network topology definition > * Extensibility and control - with improvements in VM scheduling, an > increased array of hooks and APIs, oVirt gives you absolute control over > your virtual datacenter > > Read more about the oVirt 3.3 release on the Red Hat community blog: > > http://community.redhat.com/ovirt-3-3-spices-up-the-software-defined-datace… > > The full release announcement: > http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.3_release_announcement > > oVirt 3.3 release notes: http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.3_release_notes > > > Regards, > Dave Neary. > > -- > Dave Neary - Community Action and Impact > Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com > Ph: +33 9 50 71 55 62 / Cell: +33 6 77 01 92 13 > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >

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oVirt Updates - September 16th
by Itamar Heim 17 Sep '13

17 Sep '13

Summer vacations and holidays, but many updates... Conferences/Talks - Greg Padget will cover the new sla mechanism in ovirt at LinuxCon/CloudOpen NA (September 17th, New Orleans) - a lot of sessions around linuxcon europe/kvm forum. also, the annual developer summit. Dave Neary created this helpful page: http://www.ovirt.org/KVM_Forum_2013 3.3 - Release is going out any minute now... looks like an exciting one, packed with features! - deep dives to new 3.3 features if you missed them - deep dives into some of the new features are available at the end of this page: http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.3_release_notes - note on native glusterfs storage domain and .el6 centos/rhel 6.4 don't have qemu/libvirt packages supporting this. these are expected with 6.5. we are trying to find a solution prior to 6.5 to resolve this. - Zhou Zheng Sheng graciously created guest agent packages for ubuntu and debian[1] - heads up that we're planning a bit larger 3.3.1 which will rebase and pass some more testing. then more frequent 3.3.x updates for issues found. - jason brooks blogged on "Testing oVirt 3.3 with Nested KVM" and "Up and Running with oVirt 3.3" http://community.redhat.com/testing-ovirt-3-3-with-nested-kvm http://community.redhat.com/up-and-running-with-ovirt-3-3/ 3.4 - I started a thread for "what do you want next" - will collect and publish separately. feel free to chime in[2] Case Studies - Dave Neary worked with Alter Way to publish one. http://www.ovirt.org/Alter_Way_case_study - We'd love to see more of these - please ping dneary(a)redhat.com Kimchi - Adam Litke followed on the vote to accept Kimchi as in incubated project. Kimchi is a lightweight single machine virt manager. simplified, html 5, etc. - Mike burns updated they are already trying to build a stand alone ovirt-node with it. - Adam will present Kimchi at the KVM Forum (see conferences below)` Other - René Koch asked for early testing on a new version of the Nagios plugin[3] - Karli Sjöberg published screenshots of their "order portal"[4] - (YouTube) how to use a glance image with ovirt by Hervé Leclerc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yeopUKjjnY Thanks, Itamar [1] http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-September/016308.html [2] http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-August/015807.html [3] http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-August/015779.html [4] http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-August/015619.html

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oVirt Node 3.0.1 Release
by Fabian Deutsch 16 Sep '13

16 Sep '13

Hey, oVirt Node 3.0.1 has been released [0] and can be downloaded [1]. 3.0.1 is the first bug fix release after the major 3.0.0 release. You might notice that there was no release email for the 3.0.0 release, so let us shed some light on that release. What changed? ovirt-node-3.0.0 was a major release which brought some major changes. One important change is, that Node is now an "universal image" [2]. The base Node images (for Fedora 19 and EL6) do _not_ contain any specific VDSM bits anymore and can _not_ be used directly with oVirt Engine. The VDSM specific parts got extracted and can be found in the ovirt-node-plugin-vdsm [3][4]. For convenience we plan to provide additional images containing the VDSM plugin which will make the images ready to use with oVirt Engine. For this release we need to delay the release of the VDSM images due to some last-minute bugs. There are also many more new features in 3.0 [0][5]: * Universal Image - Remove VDSM specific bits to make the image more general (an VDSM image is still provided) * Improved upgrade tool * Software iSCSI root * Puppet configuration management (plugin) * Bridegeless Networking * NIC Bonds * New installer TUI * IPv6 support in the setup TUI * Diagnostics page in the setup TUI * Images for Fedora 19 and EL6 Let us know [6][7] if you found an issue, miss something which should be part of Node or would like to use Node in your project. Thanks The oVirt Node Team --- [0] http://www.ovirt.org/Node_Release_Notes#3.0.1_Release_Notes [1] http://www.ovirt.org/Node#Current_Release [2] http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Universal_Image [3] http://resources.ovirt.org/releases/node-base/3.0.0/rpm/Fedora/19/noarch/ov… [4] http://www.ovirt.org/Node_plugins [5] http://www.ovirt.org/Node_3.0_release-management [6] irc://irc.oftc.net/#ovirt [7] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=oVirt&component=ovirt-node

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