oVirt Community Newsletter: April 2015

April is here, and residents of the Eastern Seaboard in the US are feeling a rising hope that Winter is finally on its way out. In the oVirt community, work on oVirt 3.6 is ramping up, even as more people in the virtualization sector are talking us up. -------------------------------- Software Milestones and Features -------------------------------- Take a look at the upcoming Cinder/Ceph feature in in oVort 3.6! http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Cinder_Integration It was no April Fool's joke--oVirt 3.5.2 RC3 was released and is ready to test! http://t.co/fZhSQhadZV Arch Linux now has the ovirt-guest-agent available https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ovirt-guest-agent/ ---------------- In the Community ---------------- Two Hypervisors, One Great Collaboration http://community.redhat.com/blog/2015/04/two-hypervisors-one-great-collab... CeBIT 2015 retrospective http://dummdida.tumblr.com/post/113959092885/cebit-2015-retrospective VDI Lives On with Help from oVirt http://community.redhat.com/blog/2015/03/vdi-lives-on-with-help-from-ovirt/ FOSSAsia Opens Doors For Many Open Source Projects http://community.redhat.com/blog/2015/03/fossasia-opens-doors-for-many-op... Disaster Recovery in oVirt - FOSSAsia 2015 https://youtu.be/mEiFVeS_6ck ------------------------------------ Deep Dives and Technical Discussions ------------------------------------ Progress on oVirt Node 3.6 http://dummdida.tumblr.com/post/112893789355/what-a-week-to-get-ovirt-nod... Install oVirt on CentOS 7 http://jensd.be/?p=550 Installing oVirt Hosted Engine [Video] [Spanish] https://youtu.be/W8ErWHXY66A Introducing vmcreate, a RHEV / oVirt Python API VM creation script http://www.clevernetsystems.com/rhev-ovirt-python-api-vm-creation-script/ Updates on the oVirt Appliances (installation of engine and node) http://dummdida.tumblr.com/post/114039260970/updates-on-the-ovirt-applian... Virtualisation avec oVirt https://blog.yvonet.com/2015/03/27/virtualisation-avec-ovirt-1-introduction/ (With thanks to Itamar Heim for the links!) -- Brian Proffitt Community Liaison oVirt Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com Phone: +1 574 383 9BKP IRC: bkp @ OFTC