[Engine-devel] oVirt February 2014 Updates

1. Releases - oVirt 3.3.3 was released early in the month: http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.3.3_release_notes - oVirt 3.3.4 about to release. http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.3.4_release_notes - oVirt 3.4.0 about to release! 2. Events - Leonardo Vaz is organizing ovirt attendance at FISL15, the largest FOSS conference in LATAM which will happen from 7th to 10th of May in Porto Alegre, Brazil: http://softwarelivre.org/fisl15 - Allon Mureinik gave a presentation on DR with oVirt at devconf.cz http://www.slideshare.net/AllonMureinik/dev-conf-ovirt-dr - oVirt workshop in korea slides (korean) http://www.slideshare.net/rogan/20140208-ovirtkorea-01 https://www.facebook.com/groups/ovirt.korea - Rogan also presented oVirt integration with OpenStack in OpenStack day in Korea http://alturl.com/m3jnx - Pat Pierson posted on basic network setup http://izen.ghostpeppersrus.com/setting-up-networks/ - Fosdem 2014 sessions (slides and videos) are at: http://www.ovirt.org/FOSDEM_2014 - and some at Infrastructure.Next Ghent the week after forsdem. 3. oVirt Activity (software) - oVirt Jenkins plugin by Dustin Kut Moy Cheung to control VM slaves managed by ovirt/RHEV https://github.com/thescouser89/ovirt-slaves-plugin - Opaque oVirt/RHEV/Proxmox client and source code released https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.undatech.opaque - great to see the NUMA push from HP: http://www.ovirt.org/Features/NUMA_and_Virtual_NUMA http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Detailed_NUMA_and_Virtual_NUMA 4. oVirt Activity (blogs, preso's) - oVirt's has been accepted as a mentoring project for the Google Summer of Code 2014. - Oved Ourfali posted on "Importing Glance images as oVirt templates" http://alturl.com/h7xid - v2v had seen many active discussions. here's a post by Jon Archer on how to Import regular kvm image to oVirt or RHEV http://jonarcher.info/2014/02/import-regular-kvm-image-ovirt-rhev/ - great reviews on amazon.com for "Getting Started with oVirt 3.3" http://alturl.com/5rk2p - oVirt Deep Dive 3.3 slides (Chinese) http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/johnwoolee/ovirt-deep-dive# - oVirt intro video (russian) http://alturl.com/it546 - how to install oVirt 3.3 on CentOS 6.5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i5ilSKsmbo 5. Related - NetApp GA'd their Virtual Storage Console for RHEV, which is implemented as an oVirt UI plugin (and then some) http://captainkvm.com/2014/02/vsc-for-rhev-is-ga-today/#more-660