oVirt Updates - May 23rd 2013

This is just a collection of things happening on the lists/web/etc. (feel free to send me items you think should appear in future updates) 1. Events - recap of oVirt/gluster Shanghai workshop by Theron Conrey http://www.gluster.org/2013/06/event-recap-ovirt-shanghai-workshop/ - upcoming: FISL 2014 we'll have a booth and sessions on oVirt Community Update, Spacewalk + oVirt (Thanks to all organizing) http://fisl.org.br/14/papers_ng/public/fast_grid?event_id=3 - upcoming - oVirt Developer days (with KVM Forum) Edinburgh, UK - October 21 - 23, 2013 2. Development - a slew of features going in gerrit towards 3.3 - libgovirt 0.1.0 (G Object C library for oVirt REST API) by Christophe Fergeau http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.ovirt.user/9144 - Gerrit was upgraded to 2.5.4 http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/arch/2013-June/001493.html - Vojtech post the *ver* cool crash course for UI plugins (or, "How to protect your Data Center from Alien Invasion") http://www.ovirt.org/Tutorial/UIPlugins/CrashCourse - new UI plugin by Daniel Erez that allows invocation of VDSM commands directly from the WebAdmin http://derezvir.blogspot.co.il/ 3. Other - new video channel for china (Thanks to Doron Fediuck) http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-June/014660.html http://i.youku.com/theovirt - PXE boot UI plugin (by Lee Yarwood) http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/15498/ 4. Related[1] - Symantec blog on plans for Veritas Cluster Server support for RHEV http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/symantec-s-veritas-cluster-server-a... - Jon Benedict blogged some more on Netapp's UI plugin integration http://captainkvm.com/2013/06/virtual-storage-console-for-rhev/ - build your home 10GE gluster/virt lab at bargain prices (by Patrick Rutledge) http://www.wormwood.org/wormwood/2013/06/08/10-gbps-ethernet-on-the-cheap/ http://www.wormwood.org/wormwood/2013/06/08/pics-of-my-lab/ Thanks, Itamar [1] while these were published for RHEV, should be applicable to oVirt as well, hence assuming of interest.