This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------040007080905010609010902 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 10/28/2013 04:19 PM, René Koch (ovido) wrote:
On Sun, 2013-10-27 at 23:31 +0200, Itamar Heim wrote:
A great week at linuxcon/cloudopen/kvmforum/ovirt conference at Edinburgh, and some other nice feedback on oVirt, meriting a special edition of this update. Feel free to chime in with your feedback as well. Thanks a lot for the KVM forum special newsletter.
It is sometimes hard to remember we only released oVirt 3.0 last year, and that it takes time to get traction. For example, see slide 3 in the presentation i gave on oVirt Updates[1] to see the clear trend in adoption (via total users mailing list addresses).
My favorite slide is #12 (amongst others) - thanks Itamar :)
Similarly, in Livnat's oVirt-intro session at CloudOpen, with ~75 people in the room, almost all raised their hand on her question "who knows/has oVirt".
We had a plethora of topics (same link as [1]), but i wanted to highlight:
SUSE support During Livnat's talk, a question was raised wrt SUSE support. Asking for more details, we got ~"I'm running oVirt in testing and RHEV in production. with 200 SUSE 10/11 servers. I just want the guest-agent to have their ip address in the gui". So first of all, good to know SUSE runs as a guest without issues. From my experience so far there's no recent distribution which isn't running without issues on oVirt. I tested SLES, openSUSE, CentOS, RHEL, Fedora, Linux Mint, Debian, Ubuntu and all worked fine. Some older distributions like the one in the attached screenshot are running fine with IDE and rtl8139 emulated disks/nics...
Also, the guest-agent itself is just a python script that should just work. Just some packaging is required, so we're looking to revamp this in build.opensuse.org, and hope some SUSE users will help us with closing and testing this one. I can help creating packages for SLES and openSUSE on build.opensuse.org for latest guest agent without SSO (and of course test the packages) or is Vinzenz Feenstra already working on it as I saw he pushed the sources to OBS? I have been creating first packages now for openSuSE 12.3, 13.1 and Factory:
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:evilissimo It'd be great if you could help me testing them :-) For SLES I will still have to check what's requirements are. (Environment wise (systemd present? dependent libraries etc)) I also packaged the latest python-ethtool from upstream Please let me know if anything is broken so I can address the issue :-)
In related SUSE news, I just saw this posted "After looking into oVirt it looks absolutely fantastic. Might look into seeing if I can help with porting this to openSUSE. What kind of work is involved in the porting of the application like this?" (discussion ongoing)
on PPC: Leonardo from the Eldorado research center in Brazil gave a lecture on their work to add PPC support to oVirt. Paul Mackerras (KVM PPC developer) from IBM and Alexenader Graf attended and gave a lot of feedback, and potential interest from other PPC vendors, which should be hopefully mostly config level changes.
User Stories: Keele university presented their path to oVirt. Always nice to hear how our project is used, and we actually asked them a lot of questions on why/how they use it the way they do. They also did a case study with Dave Neary, which i hope to see more from oVirt community members.
Also, always nice to hear: in an irc chat on #ovirt: "I looked at ovirt about 4 months ago and when I came back a few days ago I was blown away at how far it had come! The devs have done an awesome job".
All KVM Forum/oVirt sessions slides (and youtube's) should be available here[1] Thanks for sharing - will watch some of the presentations.
Thanks, Itamar
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-- Regards, Vinzenz Feenstra | Senior Software Engineer RedHat Engineering Virtualization R & D Phone: +420 532 294 625 IRC: vfeenstr or evilissimo Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com --------------040007080905010609010902 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/28/2013 04:19 PM, René Koch (ovido) wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote cite="mid:1382973588.9967.55.camel@pc-ovido02.lan.ovido.at" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> On Sun, 2013-10-27 at 23:31 +0200, Itamar Heim wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">A great week at linuxcon/cloudopen/kvmforum/ovirt conference at Edinburgh, and some other nice feedback on oVirt, meriting a special edition of this update. Feel free to chime in with your feedback as well. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Thanks a lot for the KVM forum special newsletter. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> It is sometimes hard to remember we only released oVirt 3.0 last year, and that it takes time to get traction. For example, see slide 3 in the presentation i gave on oVirt Updates[1] to see the clear trend in adoption (via total users mailing list addresses). </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> My favorite slide is #12 (amongst others) - thanks Itamar :) </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Similarly, in Livnat's oVirt-intro session at CloudOpen, with ~75 people in the room, almost all raised their hand on her question "who knows/has oVirt". We had a plethora of topics (same link as [1]), but i wanted to highlight: SUSE support During Livnat's talk, a question was raised wrt SUSE support. Asking for more details, we got ~"I'm running oVirt in testing and RHEV in production. with 200 SUSE 10/11 servers. I just want the guest-agent to have their ip address in the gui". So first of all, good to know SUSE runs as a guest without issues. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">
From my experience so far there's no recent distribution which isn't running without issues on oVirt. I tested SLES, openSUSE, CentOS, RHEL, Fedora, Linux Mint, Debian, Ubuntu and all worked fine. Some older distributions like the one in the attached screenshot are running fine with IDE and rtl8139 emulated disks/nics...
</pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Also, the guest-agent itself is just a python script that should just work. Just some packaging is required, so we're looking to revamp this in build.opensuse.org, and hope some SUSE users will help us with closing and testing this one. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I can help creating packages for SLES and openSUSE on build.opensuse.org for latest guest agent without SSO (and of course test the packages) or is Vinzenz Feenstra already working on it as I saw he pushed the sources to OBS?</pre> </blockquote> I have been creating first packages now for openSuSE 12.3, 13.1 and Factory:<br> <br> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:evilissimo">https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:evilissimo</a><br> <br> It'd be great if you could help me testing them :-) For SLES I will still have to check what's requirements are. (Environment wise (systemd present? dependent libraries etc))<br> I also packaged the latest python-ethtool from upstream<br> <br> Please let me know if anything is broken so I can address the issue :-)<br> <blockquote cite="mid:1382973588.9967.55.camel@pc-ovido02.lan.ovido.at" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> In related SUSE news, I just saw this posted "After looking into oVirt it looks absolutely fantastic. Might look into seeing if I can help with porting this to openSUSE. What kind of work is involved in the porting of the application like this?" (discussion ongoing) on PPC: Leonardo from the Eldorado research center in Brazil gave a lecture on their work to add PPC support to oVirt. Paul Mackerras (KVM PPC developer) from IBM and Alexenader Graf attended and gave a lot of feedback, and potential interest from other PPC vendors, which should be hopefully mostly config level changes. User Stories: Keele university presented their path to oVirt. Always nice to hear how our project is used, and we actually asked them a lot of questions on why/how they use it the way they do. They also did a case study with Dave Neary, which i hope to see more from oVirt community members. Also, always nice to hear: in an irc chat on #ovirt: "I looked at ovirt about 4 months ago and when I came back a few days ago I was blown away at how far it had come! The devs have done an awesome job". All KVM Forum/oVirt sessions slides (and youtube's) should be available here[1] </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Thanks for sharing - will watch some of the presentations. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> Thanks, Itamar [1] oVirt Updates session by Itamar Heim <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRCSQmAOh7yzgheq-emy1xA">http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRCSQmAOh7yzgheq-emy1xA</a> _______________________________________________ Users mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Users@ovirt.org">Users@ovirt.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users">http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users</a> </pre> <br> <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> <br> <pre wrap="">_______________________________________________ Users mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Users@ovirt.org">Users@ovirt.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users">http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users</a> </pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> <br> <br> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Regards, Vinzenz Feenstra | Senior Software Engineer RedHat Engineering Virtualization R & D Phone: +420 532 294 625 IRC: vfeenstr or evilissimo Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com</pre> </body> </html> --------------040007080905010609010902--