oVirt December 2013 Updates

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! It has been quite a year for oVirt, and I'd like to take the opportunity and thank everyone in out community for making it a great year for the project. - oVirt 3.3.2 was released http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.3.2_release_notes - oVirt 3.4 is in the works - Many oVirt sessions planned for Fosdem + oVirt booth - see you there! https://fosdem.org/2014/ - oVirt Contributor shirts Doron and Dave shipped some T-Shirts to prominently active community members to recognize their contribution (and thanks to Eldan for the graphics) https://twitter.com/hleclerc/status/414357959188430848 https://twitter.com/ste_vincent/status/415502831702265856 - a new book: "Getting started with oVirt 3.3", written by community member Alexey Lesovsky: http://www.packtpub.com/getting-started-with-ovirt-3-3/book or via safaribooksonline: http://alturl.com/fm7ug - An Austrian company called IT Novum migrated a 1100 machine data center to 100% open source, including oVirt for management (from VMware) They chronicled the migration with the Twitter tag #OpenSourceDataCenter https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OpenSourceDataCenter&src=typd - James is trying to build a docker image for oVirt engine http://allthingsopen.com/2013/12/19/building-docker-images-on-fedora/ - Alon announced Experimental Gentoo support for ovirt-engine-3.3.1 is available: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-November/018156.html http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OVirt - iiordanov announced Android Spice Client available for beta testing http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-December/018434.html - Some nice "how to" added to oVirt wiki by Nkesick (cybertimber2000) http://www.ovirt.org/index.php?title=How_to_create_a_Windows_8_Virtual_Ma... http://www.ovirt.org/index.php?title=How_to_create_a_Windows_XP_Virtual_M... http://www.ovirt.org/index.php?title=How_to_create_a_Windows_7_Virtual_Ma... http://www.ovirt.org/index.php?title=How_to_create_a_Ubuntu_Virtual_Machine http://www.ovirt.org/index.php?title=How_to_create_a_Fedora_Virtual_Machine - just one of those nice emails... "Just wanted to express my deepest admiration for the progress of this project. ... my quest for upgrading from 3.1 to 3.2 ... This time around, ... the whole process _just worked_! All I can say is THANK YOU! Both to you developers of oVirt and a special thank you to dreyou for posting such a well-written manual. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you:)" http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-December/018341.html Blogs: - Up and Running with oVirt 3.3 http://chenglimin.blog.51cto.com/8236854/1344083 - "oVirt 3.3.2 hackery on Fedora 19" blog post by bderzhavets http://alturl.com/68muq - a new (dedicated?) ovirt blog http://izen.ghostpeppersrus.com/ - detailed steps for deploying/using oVirt (Japanese) http://alturl.com/ww25m - Oved blogged about various ways to integrate with oVirt/RHEV (API, SDK, CLI, UI plugins, Scheduling API, VDSM Hooks) part 1 - http://alturl.com/4sytx part 2 - http://alturl.com/qye5f - Use oVirt LiveCD in dual LAN network environment (Chinese) http://www.cnblogs.com/sztsian/p/3439873.html