[Users] oVirt March 2014 Updates

*** Highlights *** - oVirt 3.4 was released! It has been a pleasure seeing the uptake of oVirt this year, culminating with the amount of traffic around 3.4 GA. Kudos and Thanks to everyone! http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/announce/2014-March/000098.html http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.4_Release_Announcement http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.4_Release_Notes (more on 3.4 below) - oVirt 3.3.4 Released. - Great to see some of the oVirt 3.5 discussions picking up. feature pages are sent for reviews / review sessions scheduled. - Docker UI plugin for oVirt by Oved Ourfali http://alturl.com/r9925 http://gerrit.ovirt.org/25814 - engine-devel and arch mailing list unified to devel(a)ovirt.org (and vdsm will try to track it as well) - Cool gamification progress bar plugin by Vojtech http://www.ovirt.org/Gamification - glance.ovirt.org is up and running Thanks to Oved (and available by default in 3.4) http://alturl.com/swv2x - IT Novum case study published ... with nearly 1,100 VMware virtual machines successfully migrated to oVirt... all on 960 CPU cores and 7680 GB of RAM... http://www.ovirt.org/IT_Novum_case_study http://www.it-novum.com/en/ovirt-en.html - Alon Bar-Lev updated Experimental Gentoo overlay is available https://github.com/alonbl/ovirt-overlay https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OVirt *** oVirt 3.4 Updates *** - Up and Running with oVirt 3.4 by Jason Brooks (Hosted Engine, glance.ovirt.org, etc) http://alturl.com/mjvrq - oVirt 3.4 provided the ability hosted engine and early support for PPC64 (Russian) http://tinyurl.com/ovp5zg5 - Free management software oVirt 3.4 with extended memory management (German) http://heise.de/-2158871 - Version 3.4 of oVirt management is virtualized (German) http://alturl.com/qi5kp - Download page refreshed, thanks to Brian Proffitt and others http://www.ovirt.org/Download *** Future Conferences *** - oVirt will be represented at the Summit Developer Lounge at Red Hat Summit by bkp, and ovedo will be speaking at DevNation - bkp ill have a session in LinuxFest NorthWest on April 26-27 - In addition to two sessions at FISL (Brazil), we get to do an oVirt community update session. There will also be oVirt discussions at a Red Hat dojo in Sao Paulo before FISL http://alturl.com/9w67g - Rene Koch is organizing two oVirt workshops in Austria: Grazer Linuxtage in Graz April 4-5 and Linuxwochen Vienna, May 8-10. http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-March/022797.html *** Past Conferences *** - Adam Litke pitched oVirt at the Linux Collaboration Summit http://alturl.com/3p6ro http://alturl.com/93452 *** Other *** - Kimchi 1.2 released http://miud.in/1F5K - New Foreman plugin with support for snapshots on oVirt http://is.gd/1UkLLS - Deploying oVirt 3.3 by Arnaud (French) http://www.it-connect.fr/ovirt-partie-1/ - iordanov published Opaque (Android Spice client) v1.2.2 Beta can now record audio using the microphone https://plus.google.com/111635076890324817164/posts/Bu1FaaoxGw8 - Extending oVirt/Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization with Vdsm hooks http://developerblog.redhat.com/2014/02/25/extending-rhev-vdsm-hooks/ - HP sending detailed feature pages for NUMA support, slated for 3.5.