[ovirt-devel] [vdsm][virt] what's new in virt (20160323)

Hi all, Here it is a new (roughly :) weekly summary about what's going on on virt's world (VDSM edition). General directions: * Francesco: the first milestone of container integration was reached. Please see below for details and to learn how to try it! Besides that, begun a sprint to solve some longstanding 4.0 bugs. * MartinPolednik: work at full speed on 4.0 features. Posted cleanup patches for hostdev and for virt devices * Milan: the first series of vmdevices improvements was merged! Kudos for the important milestone! work at full speed on 4.0 features, and planning the next step for vmdevices * Vinzenz: work at full speed on 4.0 features Guest Lifecycle Events (and Hooks). Patch topics in need of attention * Francesco: (medium-to-low need, already received some reviews) https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/q/status:open+project:vdsm+branch:master+topic... * MartinPolednik: (medium-to-low need, already received some reviews) https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/q/status:open+project:vdsm+branch:master+topic... * Milan: N/A * Shahar: N/A * Vinzenz: N/A Single patches in need of attention: * Francesco: - N/A * MartinPolednik: - N/A * Milan: - N/A * Shahar: - N/A * Vinzenz: - N/A +++ Container news: TL;DR highlights: - still in early technology preview stage, we are currently evaluating other alternatives (e.g. http://qemu-project.org/index.php?title=Features/Containers, kvmtool/lkvm) - experienced/brave users are encouraged to try, to gather early feedback about the directions - works with rkt (https://github.com/coreos/rkt), runc support planned (http://runc.io/) - works with vanilla Engine 3.6.x! You just need few custom properties - requires Vdsm master, from sources - getting started instructions at https://github.com/mojaves/ovirt-site/blob/container-support/source/featu... - make sure you use version https://github.com/mojaves/convirt/releases/tag/v0.1.5.2 - we still don't have a better name than `convirt' :) - documentation is still being improved (expect updates and polishing soon) - monitoring is not yet implemented, it is the next milestone Anyone interested in more details, or willing to try this out is encouraged to reach me - here on devel (make sure to CC me so I'll notice the message) - or on IRC, #vdsm on freenode - or on IRC, #ovirt on OFTC Bests, -- Francesco Romani RedHat Engineering Virtualization R & D Phone: 8261328 IRC: fromani