oVirt Updates - September 16th

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