[QE] oVirt 3.6.0 status
by Sandro Bonazzola
Hi, here's an update on 3.6 status on integration / rel-eng side
The tracker bug for 3.6.0 [1] currently shows no blockers.
There are 560 bugs [2] targeted to 3.6.0.
NEW ASSIGNED POST Total
docs 11 0 0 11
gluster 29 2 2 33
i18n 2 0 0 2
infra 81 8 7 96
integration 61 5 4 70
network 32 2 9 43
node 27 4 3 34
ppc 0 0 1 1
sla 53 3 0 56
spice 1 0 0 1
storage 72 5 6 83
ux 34 0 8 42
virt 72 6 10 88
Total 475 35 50 560
Features submission is still open until 2015-04-22 as per current release schedule.
Maintainers: be sure to have your features tracked in the google doc[3]
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1155425
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=target_release%3A3.6....
[3] http://goo.gl/9X3G49
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9 years, 8 months
Where do you run oVirt? Here are the answers!
by Sandro Bonazzola
Hi,
This is a summary of the 85 response we got to the last month poll. Thanks everyone who answered!
Which distribution are you using for running ovirt-engine?
Fedora 20 8 9%
CentOS 6 52 61%
CentOS 7 22 26%
Other 3 4%
Which distribution are you using for your nodes?
Fedora 20 6 7%
CentOS 6 40 47%
CentOS 7 31 36%
oVirt Node 6 7%
Other 2 2%
In Other: RHEL 6.6, 7.0, 7.1 and a mixed environment of CentOS 6 and 7.
Do you use Hosted Engine?
Yes 42 49%
No 42 49%
Would you like to share more info on your datacenter, vms,...? Tell us about it
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oVirt is so AWESOME! I luv it.
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"We currently run engine on CentOS 6 as CentOS 7 was not yet supported. We plan on migrating it to a CentOS 7 machine.
Our nodes are currently CentOS 6 but are planning to migrate to CentOS 7. (For the nodes a checkbox for each distribution would be better than the
radiobutton, as you can have multiple clusters with different distributions)."
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FC Storage (Dell md3620f and IBM Blade-S internal SAS storage)
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Please provide ceph support and built in backup tools
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"3 separate virtual RHEV datacenters, test, dev, prod.
Use direct attach fibre channel luns for application storage heavily on VMs to take advantage of snapshot/restore features on our array.
Hosted Engine in test and dev. Physical manager in prod. "
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"2 nodes running centos 6.6 from SSD (i3 35w 32GB)
1x NFS datastore
1x ISO datastore
1 node running NFS (i3 35w 8GB, Dell PERC sas controller)
All 3 nodes connected via 10Gb ethernet
Between 9 en 15 VM's depending on my tests
Always active
- Zimbra
- ldap/dhcp
- web/php
- devel/php
- pfsense
Develop/test
- Hadoop
- Openstack
- Gluster
- ms..."
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"- 4 nodes for KVM, 4 nodes for GlusterFS.
- 1Gigabit for management and 4Gigabit channel bonding for GlusterFS replica.
- Master Storage Domain lives on replica-3 GlustrerFS volume."
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"30 hvs NFS storage over infiniband, custom portal for task automation and classroom abstraction via API"
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"We use atm local storage.
Current running vm count is over 100.
I'd like to use EL7 platform in the future, but I'm uncertain how to best
upgrade everything with a minimal downtime.
we currently run ovirt-engine 3.3.3
we will stick with EL platform and not switch to fedora based, because
we need the improved stability.
we also do not upgrade to dot zero releases as these introduced
some breakage in the past (regressions).
I hope this gets better with future releases.
Keep up the good work!
Sven"
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"Storage GlusterFS (Virt+Gluster on Nodes), and FreeNAS via NFS"
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"- iSCSI dedicated network
- 2x Poweredge M1000e chassis (so, 2 x 16 blades)"
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Yes it's NIELIT a gov agency to provide various trannig on virtual environment
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"Running production engine on CentOS6 with CentOS6 nodes.
Test/Staging environemtn based on CentOS7 and CentOS7 nodes, Hosted-engine on iSCSI."
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"Mix of Dell, HP, UCS for compute
Netapp for NAS, VNX for FC"
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"Cloud used for CI purpose, made from about ""old"" 50 desktop PCs (and still growing) with Celerons, i3, i5 and few i7. VMs are ""light"" nodes for
Jenkins (2GB-6GB/2-4cores). Some resources are utilized for cloud's services like vpn, zabbix, httpd, etc. As storage we use MooseFS!"
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"This is a sample config for the few installes I have performed, but ideal for a small office.
2x nodes - CentOS 6 with SSD boot and 2x 2TB drives and 2 gluster volumes spread over the 2 - 1 for vm storage and 1 for file storage
1x engine (planning on changing to hosted)
5x vms - 2x DNS/DHCP/Management, 1x webserver for intranet, 1x mailserver and 1x Asterisk PBX
"
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"I think that we really need more troubleshooting tools and guides more than anything. There are various logs, but there is no reason why we
shouldn't be publishing some of this information to the engine UI and even automating certain self-healing.
The absolute most important feature in my mind is getting the ability to auto start (restart) VMs after certain failures and attempting to unlock
disks, etc.. VMware does a tremendous amount of that in order to provide better HA. We need this."
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"Have FC only. Using SVC. Behind it now DS4700. Going to have other storages too.
This is BYOD.
"
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"One node cluster with local storage for education, POC etc. at home."
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No
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Combo glusterfs storage and vm hosted nodes. Will be migrating engine to centos 7 at some point. Wish libgfapi was properly supported now that it's
feasible.
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3 x Supermicro A1SAi-2750F nodes (16 GiB RAM + 8 TiB storage + 8x1GiB/s Ethernet each) with hyperconverged GlusterFS (doubling as an NFS/CIFS storage
cluster)
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"running 15 vms, for univ apps (LMS/SIS/etc), using dual freeIPA (vms), glusterfs (replicated-distributed-10G net)"
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"Tried to install hosted engine on Centos 7, but ran into issues and went for Fedora20 instead. Fedora20 installation was pretty much problem free.
Using NFS on Synology NAS for vm disks."
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"3 clusters, 1 gluster storage cluster, 50 TB total disk space, with 4 hosts all volumes replica 3
2 virtualisation clusters, SandyBridge with 5 hosts, Nehelem with 2 hosts
running about 70 mostly Linux clients, hosted engine runs on 3 of the SandyBridge nodes."
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I use oVirt since version 3.0. The evolution of this project is outstanding. The biggest unsolved problem is that there is no good backup solution for
oVirt.
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Modest server with all-in-one oVirt installation.
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"oVirt is for Testing actually, I should say validate. We use Xen Open Source and plan to migrate to oVirt during this year."
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"4 nodes, 30 VM's (10 are HA), ISO and export domain on NAS, local drives shared over NFS between nodes, one FC primary storage domain 1TB. Engine is
a KVM VM on a CentOS host."
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"5 hosts, FC "
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Development system for working with other Open Source projects.
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"1. DATA_DOMAIN - HP P2000 G3 FC
2. Nodes - Intel server boards SB2400BB
3. VMS - On CentOS 6.6"
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We are developing VDI solution based on oVirt/KVM/SPICE.
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So I answered for my largest oVirt cluster. I actually have several
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"Create multiple VM using ovirt in order to provide platform as a service in my campus environment.
All the VM(s) created will be used to run web based application for the purpose of final year project presentation.
I did this only on 1 physical server as we currently have the limitation on the hardware part."
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"small lab environment, ~10 nodes, ~20-30 VMs. "
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Ovirt 3.4.4 with 16 VDSM Nodes and 170 virtual machines. We currently use Direct attached disks from our ISCSI SAN and we use the snapshot and
replication features of the SAN (Dell Equallogic).
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"Lab @Home
SuperMicro mainboard with 1 x Xeon quad core cpu (Sandy Bridge)
32 GB RAM
Synology NAS with storage for oVirt through iSCSI"
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"IBM Blade Center.
1 Engine
2 Ovirt Nodes
1 NAS for NFS"
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"We started looking at OVIRT a while ago and it had come a long way. My only objection to migrating it into our production is the issues we have with
the network interfaces (bonded VLAN tags on the mgmt) and their removal on boot/reboot. Other than that we have fully tested multi-cluster glusterized
environments successfully.
Again outside of the networks the only other feature I would suggest is gluster storage for the hosted engine. "
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Storage is ZFS shared over NFS via dual 10 gbit links. Running 15 nodes now.
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We will upgrade up CentOS7 soon
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"2 FC datacenters, 4 VNX SAN, 2 4To Lun, 25 hosts on 2 physical sites, 180 centos server vms. We used to recycle all our old servers (1950, 2950, G6
etc..) to get additional vCPU and RAM, but it has no more interest since we got 4 new r630 chassis with 128 Go of RAM and 40 vCPUs per server. So the
goal is to reduce the number of hosts when keeping the same capacities."
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"2 production setups in different DC, beginning their history from ovirt-3.2, thus centos6 and no hosted-engine.
dell m1000e bladesystem + fc storage in first one; hp dl580 g7 + fc storage in second. ~150 vms in each"
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Storage is ZFS shared over NFS via dual 10 gbit links. Running 15 nodes now.
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"Just started using Ovirt, we're using supermicro microcloud servers with 32GB memory and quad core E3-1241v3 Xeons.
We're using the jenkins builds of ovirt-node since there isn't a recent ovirt-node build. "
--
Hyorvisor used also as replica glusterfs nodes.
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"We run about 20 VMs on 3 proliant machines with a msa backed shared storage.
We have migrated dec/jan to oVirt and I am a big fan of the virtualization solution. We ran VPS before on Virtuozzo, but it did not provide out of the
box HA.
The only thing I was missing is some way of automated backups.
We have finally bought a proprietary backup solution ( R1soft CDP ) to run within the VMs to have disaster and file backups.
Overall a great product!
"
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9 years, 8 months
oVirt Community Newsletter: February 2015
by Brian Proffitt
February got started with many oVirt community members descended upon Brussels for FOSDEM! Our virtualization presentations were a big success, and helps get a productive month kick started.
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oVirt Software Milestones
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On Feb 27, oVirt 3.5.2 RC was released! http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/announce/2015-February/000159.html
Meanwhile, planning for oVirt 3.6 includes some very cool new features... including support for Ubuntu Hosts! http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.6_Release_Management#Key_Proposed_Changes
Here's when 3.6 should be rolling out... http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2015-February/031491.html
Check out oVirt 3.5.1.1 Live on a CentOS7 host today! http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_Live
moVirt is now an official oVirt incubator project! http://www.ovirt.org/Project_moVirt
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In the Community
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VDI in the largest Spanish university made easy with oVirt. http://www.ovirt.org/Universidad_de_Sevilla_Case_Study
Red Hat Launches Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.5 http://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-launches-red-hat-en...
FOSDEM Virtualization: Docker Integration in oVirt and Live Migration of Containers with CRIU http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/02/fosdem-ovirt-criu
Fosdem and oVirt [Trip Report] http://dougsland.livejournal.com/124182.html
Get involved in oVirt project! March edition http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2015-March/031631.html
Step by Step - Reusing Old Features to Build New Ones http://www.slideshare.net/AllonMureinik/step-bystep-ovirtlivemerge
oVirt is happy to announce its participation in the next round of the Outreachy program. Register today! http://www.ovirt.org/Outreachy
FOSDEM Videos:
Fabricate Your Automated DevOps Environment Using Python http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/fosdem//2015/lightning_talks/automated_devops_e...
Validate Your Gerrit Patches Automatically Using Magic Hooks http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/fosdem/2015/lightning_talks/gerrit_hooks.mp4
Upcoming oVirt Events:
* FOSSAsia, March 13-15, 2015, Singapore http://fossasia.org/
* oVirt Workshop, March 14, 2015, Singapore http://www.meetup.com/FOSSASIA-Singapore-Open-Technology-Meetup/events/22...
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Deep Dives and Technical Discussions
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Red Hat: Traditional virtualisation isn't going anywhere http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2396980/red-hat-traditional-virt...
Trying out oVirt's Probabilistic Optimizer http://community.redhat.com/blog/2015/02/trying-out-ovirts-probabalistic-...
moVirt + bVNC @ tablet, phone and smart watch http://youtu.be/QnD9v70oefA
Import esxi VM to oVirt http://youtu.be/dHJv7zydZEM
VirtZine #48: Alternative Virtualization Platforms! http://youtu.be/ISWN6Frp9cg
oVirt and OpenStack network integración via Neutron SDN using OriginStack http://youtu.be/P0_s6JjFM1o
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Community Liaison
oVirt
Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com
Phone: +1 574 383 9BKP
IRC: bkp @ OFTC
9 years, 8 months
Proposing Sahina Bose as oVirt core maintainer
by Oved Ourfali
Hi all!
I would like to propose Sahina Bose as an engine-core maintainer, with regards to Gluster related code.
Sahina joined the oVirt project two years ago, and has since contributed over 150 patches, and has been instrumental in reviews of all Gluster patches.
Will appreciate your response!
Thanks,
Oved
9 years, 8 months
Want to Be Mentor?
by Brian Proffitt
oVirt is pleased to announce it will be participating in the May-August 2015 round of Outreachy, organized by the GNOME Foundation, Software Freedom Conservancy, and Red Hat.
Outreachy helps women (cis and trans) and genderqueer get involved in free and open source software. The program provides a supportive community for beginning to contribute any time throughout the year and offers focused internship opportunities twice a year with a number of free software organizations.
If anyone has a project they'd like to add to the list of ideas at[1], there is still time. Applications will open tomorrow. Right now we are confirmed for at least one intern, but there should be funding for at least one more.
Thanks!
Brian
[1] http://www.ovirt.org/Outreachy
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Community Liaison
oVirt
Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com
Phone: +1 574 383 9BKP
IRC: bkp @ OFTC
9 years, 8 months
oVirt Node Weekly Meeting -- 2015-03-02
by Fabian Deutsch
Minutes: http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-03-02-15.23.html
Minutes (text): http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-03-02-15.23.txt
Log: http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-03-02-15.23.log.html
=================================
#ovirt: oVirt Node Weekly Meeting
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Meeting started by fabiand at 15:23:37 UTC. The full logs are available
at http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-03-02-15.23.log.html
.
Meeting summary
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* Agenda (fabiand, 15:23:55)
* oVirt 3.5 (fabiand, 15:24:00)
* oVirt 3.6 planning (fabiand, 15:24:04)
* Other Items (fabiand, 15:24:08)
* oVirt 3.5 (fabiand, 15:24:15)
* 3.5 jobs are broken due to missing node rpms (fabiand, 15:28:21)
* ACTION: tlitovsk to create a job to build jobs which can then be
used by the nightly publishers (fabiand, 15:28:39)
* oVirt 3.6 Planning (fabiand, 15:31:56)
* LINK:
http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2015-February/009934.html
(fabiand, 15:32:39)
* ACTION: fabiand to create the anaconda feature page (fabiand,
15:34:17)
* LINK: http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Node/DbusBackend (rbarry,
15:36:54)
* dougsland working on ovirt-node pacjkage refactoring (fabiand,
15:38:10)
* rbarry working on a dbus backend for the config classes (fabiand,
15:38:17)
* LINK: http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Node/DbusBackend (fabiand,
15:38:21)
* Other Items (fabiand, 15:38:54)
* ACTION: tlitovsk to send csmock and infos to devel(a)ovirt.org
(fabiand, 15:40:21)
Meeting ended at 15:41:42 UTC.
Action Items
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* tlitovsk to create a job to build jobs which can then be used by the
nightly publishers
* fabiand to create the anaconda feature page
* tlitovsk to send csmock and infos to devel(a)ovirt.org
Action Items, by person
-----------------------
* fabiand
* fabiand to create the anaconda feature page
* tlitovsk
* tlitovsk to create a job to build jobs which can then be used by the
nightly publishers
* tlitovsk to send csmock and infos to devel(a)ovirt.org
* **UNASSIGNED**
* (none)
People Present (lines said)
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* fabiand (61)
* tlitovsk (12)
* sbonazzo (5)
* rbarry (4)
* dougsland (2)
* ovirtbot (2)
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9 years, 8 months
[ANN] oVirt 3.5.2 First Release Candidate is now available for testing
by Sandro Bonazzola
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The oVirt team is pleased to announce that the 3.5.2 First Release Candidate is now
available for testing as of Feb 27th 2015.
The release candidate is available now for Fedora 20, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6
(or similar) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (or similar).
This release of oVirt includes numerous bug fixes.
See the release notes [1] for a list of the new features and bugs fixed.
Please refer to release notes [1] for Installation / Upgrade instructions.
New oVirt Live and oVirt Node ISO will be available soon as well[2].
Please note that mirrors may need usually one day before being synchronized.
Please refer to the release notes for known issues in this release.
[1] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.5.2_Release_Notes
[2] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-3.5-pre/iso/
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9 years, 8 months
Get involved in oVirt project! March edition
by Sandro Bonazzola
Hi,
do you want to get involved in oVirt project?
Do you like Debian and do you have some programming skill?
Help us getting VDSM running on it!
You can follow the progress here: http://www.ovirt.org/VDSM_on_Debian
Here are some bugs you can hopefully fix in less that one day or you can just try to reproduce providing info:
Bug ID Whiteboard Status Summary
1059952 integration NEW hosted-engine --deploy (additional host) will fail if the engine is not using the default self-signed CA
1065350 integration NEW hosted-engine should prompt a question at the user when the host was already a host in the engine
1073421 integration NEW [RFE] allow additional parameter for engine-backup to omit audit_log data
1083104 integration NEW engine-setup --offline does not update versionlock
Do you want something easier?
Bug ID Whiteboard Status Summary
1174285 i18n NEW [de-DE] "Live Snapshot Support" reads "Live Snapsnot Support"
772931 infra NEW [RFE] Reports should include the name of the oVirt engine
1143817 integration NEW [TEXT ONLY] - Hosted Engine - Instructions for FQDN are not clear enough
1156060 integration NEW [text] engine admin password prompt consistency
1115059 network NEW Incomplete error message when adding VNIC profile to running VM
734120 storage NEW [RFE] VDSM: use virt-sparsify/zerofree to reduce image size
Do you love "DevOps?", you count stable builds in jenkins ci while trying to fall a sleep?
Then oVirt infra team is looking for you!, join the infra team and dive in to do the newest and coolest devops tools today!
Here are some of our open tasks you can help with: https://fedorahosted.org/ovirt/report/1
You don't have programming skills, not enough time for DevOps but you want still to contribute?
Here are some bugs you can take care of, also without writing a line of code:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=product%3Aovirt%20whi...
Do you prefer to test things? We have some test cases[5] you can try using nightly snapshots[6]
Do you want to contribute test cases? Most of the features[7] included in oVirt are missing a test case, you're welcome to contribute one!
Is this the first time you try to contribute to oVirt project?
You can start from here [1][2]!
Don't know gerrit very well? You can find some more docs here [3].
Any other question about development? Feel free to ask on devel(a)ovirt.org or on irc channel[4].
Let us know you're getting involved, present yourself and tell us what you're going to do, you'll be welcome!
[1] http://www.ovirt.org/Develop
[2] http://www.ovirt.org/Working_with_oVirt_Gerrit
[3] https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation
[4] http://www.ovirt.org/Community
[5] http://www.ovirt.org/Category:TestCase
[6] http://www.ovirt.org/Install_nightly_snapshot
[7] http://www.ovirt.org/Category:Feature
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9 years, 8 months
