oVirt updates - August 13th 2013

(some updates I collected from past weeks) General: - great oVirt 3.3 test day with 80 bugs reported on various new 3.3 features. - oVirt 3.3 RC build soon to come. - various deep dive sessions started on new 3.3 features[9] glance, neutron, power management and async tasks covered so far. Deployment: - Karli Sjöberg documented the process of going from oVirt-3.1 on Fedora to oVirt-3.2 on CentOS[3] - René Koch announced version 1.2.1 of the Nagios monitoring plugin[6] - Christophe Fergeau announced[1] a new spice-xpi 2.8.90 with windows support (and proxy support as well) - Eyal Edri announced ovirt rpm's are available for Fedora 19[7] - René van der Linden blogged about configuring IPA for oVirt[12] also has entries on all of this oVirt deployment[13] Devel: - gerrit was upgraded to gerrit 2.6. during the upgrade I forgot David Caro work on replacing the robots file so bing servers overloaded the server again. Juan was kind enough to send a patch to the gerrit project[2] to make the robots file configurable so we'll avoid this in the future (well, from gerrit 2.8). - A Clojure library to provision virtual machines in ovirt[11] Conferences/Talks: - (upcoming) greg padget will cover new sla mechanism in ovirt[8] at LinuxCon/CloudOpen NA (September 17th, New Orleans) - (upcoming) KvmForum and oVirt sessions at LinuxCon Europe in October - (past) Udayendu Kar covered KVM and oVirt in an Engineering College via a few talks and hands-on[5] - (past) Livnat Peer did an intro to ovirt session in Israel's open source conference August Penguin. Related: - Jon Benedict of NetApp published an update on their VSC beta[4] - VMWare vCloud Automation Center 5.2 added support for RHEV 3.1[10] Thanks, Itamar [1] http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-August/015624.html [2] https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/48411 [3] http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-August/015609.html [4] http://captainkvm.com/2013/08/vsc-for-rhev-beta-is-live/ [5] http://udayendu.livejournal.com/671.html [6] http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-July/015352.html [7] http://resources.ovirt.org/releases/nightly/rpm/Fedora/19 [8] http://linuxconcloudopenna2013.sched.org/event/983e0cfa39a71d80e6f5000a9b... [9] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.3_release_notes [10] http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vcac-52-kvm-guide.pdf [11] https://github.com/RedHatQE/ovirt.client [12] https://www.rvanderlinden.net/wordpress/ovirt/administrator-portal/admini... [13] https://www.rvanderlinden.net/wordpress/ovirt/