October 2013 - Announce - oVirt List Archives

oVirt Updates - Special KVM Forum/oVirt edition
by Itamar Heim 27 Oct '13

27 Oct '13

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. 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). 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. 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. 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, Itamar [1] oVirt Updates session by Itamar Heim http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRCSQmAOh7yzgheq-emy1xA

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oVirt 3.3.1 Beta now available
by Mike Burns 22 Oct '13

22 Oct '13

The oVirt team is pleased to announce that the 3.3.1 Release is now available in beta. Release notes for this update are still being worked on, but information on the changes can be found on the wiki[1]. A new oVirt Node build will be available soon as well. Mike [1] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.3.1_release_notes

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oVirt October Updates
by Itamar Heim 22 Oct '13

22 Oct '13

Hope to meet many next week in LinuxCon Europe/KVM Forum/oVirt conference in Edinburgh Highlights: - oVirt 3.3 GA of course! some links covering it[10] - more links in Russian, Japanese, German and Italian [15] - oVirt 3.3.1 nearing beta this will include a slew of bug fixes, and a few items which missed 3.3. - Malini Rao sent a proposal for some UI changes[4] - some pluggable scheduler samples are available[5] - Summarized 3.4 community requests, hope the top ones will make it to 3.4[6] - 3.4 cycle - planned to be a shorter cycle, trying to make features available faster. - René Koch published version 0.1 of Monitoring UI-Plugin[8] - a new oVirt module merged to Ansible - covers VM life cycle (create/start/stop/etc.) [11] - a puppet module to deploy ovirt engine and ovirt node[12] - and a chef one[14] (both by Jason Cannon) Conferences: - LinuxCon Europe/KVM Forum/oVirt - next week in Edinburgh LOTs of sessions: http://www.ovirt.org/KVM_Forum_2013 - FOSDEM 2014 - We will be co-organizing a "Virtualization and IaaS" DevRoom with +Lars Kurth, +Itamar Heim and +Thierry Carrez as DevRoom organizers - past: Open World Forum - Building an open hybrid cloud with open source[13] K-LUG - Rochester, MN Area Linux Users Group - oVirt intro[16] Other: - a 3 part series by Humble on using the python sdk: How to shutdown/stop or start virtual machines (VMs) in ovirt DC automatically?[1] List Datacenter, hypervisors/host,vms in an ovirt DC with its name,status,id..etc[2] Find out hosts and clusters where vm is running. its status, ids, storage domain details in an ovirt dc[3] - another one by Humble: Convert physical/virtual systems to virtual using virt-p2v && virt-v2v then use it in ovirt DC[7] - LINBIT published "High-Availability oVirt-Cluster with iSCSI-Storage"[9] Have Fun, Itamar [1] http://humblec.com/ovirt-shutdownstop-start-virtual-machines-vms-ovirt-dc-a… [2] http://humblec.com/ovirt-list-datacenter-hypervisorshostvms-ovirt-dc-status… [3] http://humblec.com/ovirt-find-hosts-clusters-vm-running-status-ids-storage-… [4] http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-October/017088.html [5] http://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=ovirt-scheduler-proxy.git;a=tree;f=plugins… [6] http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-October/016898.html [7] http://humblec.com/convert-physical-virtual-virtual-using-virt-v2v-virt-p2v… [8] http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-October/016842.html [9] note: link requires registeration: http://www.linbit.com/en/company/news/333-high-available-virtualization-at-… the pdf is: http://www.linbit.com/en/downloads/tech-guides?download=68:high-availabilit… [10] ovirt 3.3 ga links http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/announce/2013-September/000061.html http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.3_release_announcement http://www.redhat.com/about/news/archive/2013/9/ovirt-3-3-release-brings-op… http://community.redhat.com/ovirt-3-3-glusterized/ http://community.redhat.com/ovirt-3-3-spices-up-the-software-defined-datace… http://www.tuicool.com/articles/eIJnMr http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQ2MzQ http://captainkvm.com/2013/09/614/ http://www.vmwareindex.com/category/hadoop-splunk/openstack/ovirt-3-3-is-no… http://thehyperadvisor.com/2013/09/17/ovirt-3-3-is-now-released/ [11] https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/3838 [12] http://forge.puppetlabs.com/jcannon/ovirt/0.0.1 [13] http://www.openworldforum.org/en/schedule/1/ http://www.openworldforum.org/en/speakers/49/ [14] http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks/ovirt [15] russian: http://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=38000 http://ru.fedoracommunity.org/content/%D0%92%D1%8B%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%BB-ovirt-… http://linuxforum.ru/viewtopic.php?id=30572 http://citrix.pp.ru/news/2214-novaya-versiya-sistemy-upravleniya-infrastruk… german: http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/20258/ovirt-33-unterstuetzt-openstack.html japanese: http://en.sourceforge.jp/magazine/13/09/25/163000 italian: http://www.freeonline.org/cs/com/la-release-ovirt-3-3-integra-openstack-e-g… http://www.tomshw.it/cont/news/open-source-red-hat-gestisce-la-virtualizzaz… [16] http://k-lug.org/OldNews

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oVirt 3.3.0.1 Update Release now available
by Mike Burns 18 Oct '13

18 Oct '13

The oVirt Team is pleased to announce the availability of the 3.3.0.1 Update Release. This release fixes a number of issues with the 3.3.0 release. The release includes updates to the following packages: ovirt-engine vdsm ovirt-engine-log-collector ovirt-engine-iso-uploader ovirt-engine-image-uploader Information on the issues fixed is below. Thanks The oVirt Team """ A vdsm bug (BZ#1007980) made it impossible to migrate or re-run a VM with a glusterfs-backed virtual disk if the VM was originally started with an empty cdrom. If you have encountered this bug, you would have to manually find the affected VMs with psql -U engine -d engine -c "select distinct vm_name from vm_static, vm_device where vm_guid=vm_id and device='cdrom' and address ilike '%pci%';" and remove their junk cdrom address with psql -U engine -d engine -c "update vm_device set address='' where device='cdrom' and address ilike '%pci%';" """ A vdsm bug introduced in a specific case of disk resize (raw on nfs) accidentally wipes the content of the virtual disk. The issue was masked on the master (and ovirt-3.3) branch by an unrelated change that happened to fix the problem leaving only vdsm-4.12 affected. It is of critical importance to update all your machines to the new vdsm release. """ An engine-setup bug (BZ#1014115) made setup log the database-access password when upgrading from 3.2. If you've upgraded from an older release you may want to secure or delete existing setup log files in /var/log/ovirt-engine/setup/ An engine bug (BZ#1008938) caused VM failing to start running after changing the interface of bootable disk in UI. An engine bug (BZ#1017285) may have caused upcoming ovirt-3.3.1 nodes and hosts with vdsm >= 4.13.0 not to be accepted as hypervisors. """

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