oVirt August 2014 UPdates

Who says summertime is lazy and carefree? Not the members of the oVirt community, who are hard at work all year long! Here's what they've been working on in August! --Community News-- * oVirt finished participation in Google Summer of Code, with much success on the part of the students and mentors! Details to follow! * oVirt had a great showing at LinuxCon/CloudOpen North America http://community.redhat.com/blog/2014/08/report-ovirt-at-linuxcon/ * oVirt 3.5 RC1 was released on August 5: http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.5_Release_Notes following a useful second test day in late July: http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.5_TestDay * Reaching the community is job #1 for a successful open source website. Alissa Bonas discusses best practices at: https://opensource.com/business/14/8/open-source-project-front-door * Red Hat Israel hosted its first DevOps meetup this month! Presentations can be found online now: http://www.meetup.com/Open-Source-Israel/files/ * Learn more about the team behind OriginStack http://www.nimbusconcept.com/index-en.html * Want to help oVirt development and are using LDAP integration, then you can help us test a new feature http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2014-August/008367.html * China may be in need of a different glance end point (Chinese): http://mathslinux.org/?p=567 --HOWTOs and Tutorials-- * Integrating oVirt and Foreman to Empower your Data-Center by Yaniv Bronhaim at LinuxCon NA 2014 http://youtu.be/gozX891kYAY * Download and install ManageIQ for oVirt (Caution: these are instructions for the anand release candidate. Things may be unstable, and may break. If you're looking for adventure, please proceed at http://manageiq.org/download/ovirt/) * A howto manual on the deployment and use of oVirt and Gluster (Chinese) https://inthecloud.readthedocs.org/zh_CN/latest/ * FileCloud's Introduction to Top Open Source Virtualization Tools http://www.getfilecloud.com/blog/2014/08/introduction-to-top-open-source-... * oVirt 3.5: Snapshots Overview http://youtu.be/10z7tqbTt5Q * Learn how to migrate VMs/templates between data centers with detach/attach of storage domain in oVirt 3.5: http://www.ovirt.org/Features/ImportUnregisteredEntities * Discover how the kdump mechanism is integrated into oVirt 3.5 in this Google Hangout hosted by Martin Penina: http://youtu.be/RAGV_za_Qvw * oVirt 3.5 will have much more robust storage domain management, as you can see at: http://www.ovirt.org/Features/ImportStorageDomain#Work_flow_for_Import_Fi... * Expediting Infrastructure IV: Working with oVirt (Spanish) http://blog.sotoca.es/2014/08/agilizando-la-infraestructura-iv.html * Roozbeh Shafiee posted an intro to #oVirt and #RHEV (Farsi) http://roozbehshafiee.com/virtualization/enterprise-virtualization-in-lin... * Piotr Kliczewski hosted a hangout this month on working with the Jsonrpc Protocol over STOMP in oVirt. Check out the video at: http://youtu.be/0FwM2oeb788 * Jason Williams walks readers through a useful home server setup that features oVirt: http://www.jason.jnf.me/blog/post/95829721478/home-server-setup-useful-links * Learn more about the new Neutron Virtual Appliance http://youtu.be/naLFSFwHI94 * Ben Draper walks through installing hosted engine in 3.4: https://xrsa.net/2014/08/13/installing-ovirt-3-4-hosted-engine/ * How to change host name in oVirt 3.3 (Japanese): http://akira-junkbox.blogspot.co.il/2014/08/ovirt.html * The Korea oVirt User Group on SPM's 3.6 decommissioning: http://ovirtkorea.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/ovirt-3-6%EC%97%90%EC%84%9C-sp... * Running virt-sysprep against a RHEV virtual machine running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (http://www.outsidaz.org/blog/2013/11/07/running-virt-sysprep-against-a-rh...) --Events and Activities-- * oVirt will be featured this September at the inaugural launch of Fossetcon on Sept. 11-13 http://fossetcon.org/2014/session/open-source-virtualization-ovirt * Going to be in Duesseldorf in October? Come learn about Smart VM Scheduling in an oVirt Cluster from Martin Sivak at LinuxCon EU: http://sched.co/1BnNQ6M * Another LinuxCon EU presentation to check out Tomas Jelinek's talk on moVirt - Mobile Application for Monitoring of oVirt Datacenter: http://sched.co/Xn6cp2 -- Brian Proffitt oVirt Community Manager Project Atomic Community Lead Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com Phone: +1 574 383 9BKP IRC: bkp @ OFTC