February 2014 - Announce - oVirt List Archives

[ANN] oVirt 3.4.0 Release Candidate is now available
by Sandro Bonazzola 28 Feb '14

28 Feb '14

The oVirt team is pleased to announce that the 3.4.0 Release Candidate is now available for testing. Release notes and information on the changes for this update are still being worked on and will be available soon on the wiki[1]. Please ensure to follow install instruction from release notes if you're going to test it. The existing repository ovirt-3.4.0-prerelease has been updated for delivering this release candidate and future refreshes until final release. An oVirt Node iso is already available, unchanged from third beta. You're welcome to join us testing this release candidate in next week test day [2] scheduled for 2014-03-06! [1] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.4.0_release_notes [2] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.4_Test_Day -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com

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New repositories layout for nightly and official releases
by Kiril Nesenko 26 Feb '14

26 Feb '14

Hello all, oVirt Release Engineering team would like to announce a new repositories layout. Nighlty builds are moving to [1]. We are going to disable nightly builds under [2]. Short description to make things clear: ovirt-<version>-snapshot - nighltly build for the version ovirt-<version>-snapshot-static - static repo for the nightly build. Will be used for static rpms like jasper, jboss. ovirt-<version> - official released version Complete by itself, no need for extra static repo If you have any issues, please drop email to infra(a)ovirt.org or contact us on IRC. Release Manager: Sandro Bonazzola (sbonazzo) Release Engineering: Kiril Nesenko (knesenko), David Caro (dcaroest) With regards, oVirt Release Engineering [1] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ [2] http://resources.ovirt.org/releases/nightly/

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oVirt 3.3.4 Release Candidate is now available
by Sandro Bonazzola 25 Feb '14

25 Feb '14

The oVirt team is pleased to announce that the 3.3.4 Release Candidate is now available in ovirt-updates-testing [1]. Feel free to join us testing it[2] and verifying the bugzilla entries actually under verification. Release notes for this update will be updated soon on the wiki [3]. [1] http://resources.ovirt.org/releases/updates-testing [2] http://www.ovirt.org/Testing/Ovirt_3.3.4_testing [3] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.3.4_release_notes -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com

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[ANN] oVirt 3.4.0 beta3 is now available
by Sandro Bonazzola 19 Feb '14

19 Feb '14

The oVirt team is pleased to announce that the 3.4.0 third beta release is now available for testing. Release notes and information on the changes for this update are still being worked on and will be available soon on the wiki[1]. Please ensure to follow install instruction from release notes if you're going to test it. The existing repository ovirt-3.4.0-prerelease has been updated for delivering this beta and future refreshes until release candidate. A new oVirt Node build will be available soon as well. You're welcome to join us testing this beta release before we'll compose RC build for next week test day [2] scheduled for 2014-02-27! [1] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.4.0_release_notes [2] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.4_Test_Day -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com

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oVirt 3.3.4 beta is now available
by Sandro Bonazzola 19 Feb '14

19 Feb '14

The oVirt team is pleased to announce that the 3.3.4 Beta is now available in beta [1] repository for testing. Feel free to join us testing it! You'll find all needed info for installing it on the release notes page, already available on the wiki [2]. A new oVirt Node build will be available soon as well. [1] http://resources.ovirt.org/releases/beta/ [2] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.3.4_release_notes -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com

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[ANN] oVirt 3.4.0 beta2 is now available
by Sandro Bonazzola 07 Feb '14

07 Feb '14

The oVirt team is pleased to announce that the 3.4.0 second beta release is now available for testing. Release notes and information on the changes for this update are still being worked on and will be available soon on the wiki[1]. Please ensure to follow install instruction from release notes if you're going to test it. The existing repository ovirt-3.4.0-prerelease has been updated for delivering this beta and future refreshes until release candidate. A new oVirt Node build will be available soon as well. You're welcome to join us testing this beta release in next week test day [2] scheduled for 2014-02-11! [1] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.4.0_release_notes [2] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.4_Test_Day -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com

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oVirt 3.3.3 release
by Sandro Bonazzola 03 Feb '14

03 Feb '14

The oVirt development team is very happy to announce the general availability of oVirt 3.3.3 as of February 3rd 2013. This release solidifies oVirt as a leading KVM management application and open source alternative to VMware vSphere. oVirt is available now for Fedora 19 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 (or similar). This release of oVirt includes numerous bug fixes. See the release notes [1] for a list of the new features and bugs fixed. IMPORTANT NOTE: If you're upgrading from a previous version, please update ovirt-release to the latest version (10.0.1-3) and verify you have the correct repositories enabled by running the following commands # yum update ovirt-release # yum repolist enabled before upgrading with the usual procedure. You should see the ovirt-3.3.3 and ovirt-stable repositories listed in the output of the repolist command. A new oVirt Node build will be available soon as well. [1] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.3.3_release_notes -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com

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oVirt January 2014 Updates
by Itamar Heim 03 Feb '14

03 Feb '14

1. VERSIONS - oVirt 3.3.3 in last phases http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.3.3_release_notes - oVirt 3.4 with another slew of features is getting into test day, beta, etc. http://red.ht/1eo9TiS 2. WORKSHOPS - Fosdem - oVirt stand wass packed as well as a virt & IaaS devroom, with many oVirt talks. more details next time. - more oVirt talks in cfgmgmtcamp and infra.next this week, including: -- Hervé Leclerc "How we build a cloud with CentOS, oVirt, and Cisco-UCS" Wednesday 5th February in Infrastructure.Next Ghent http://bit.ly/1fjTJVC -- oVirt Node being used as a Discovery Node in The Foreman project talk at cfgmgmtcamp, february 3rd http://bit.ly/1gAnneI - oVirt Korea group meeting this Saturday in Seoul Register here http://onoffmix.com/event/23134 - Open Virtualization Workshop in Tehran (26,27 February 2014) & Isfahan (5,6 March 2014) http://t.co/9PR3BxOnpd 3. USING oVirt - More details on Wind River using ovirt http://bit.ly/1i2LtLI - New Case Study: Nieuwland Geo-Informati http://www.ovirt.org/Nieuwland_case_study - oVirt Node being used as a Discovery Node in The Foreman project talk at cfgmgmtcamp, february 3rd http://bit.ly/1gAnneI 4. Users - Double the amount of emails on users mailing list- up from 800 to 1600 this month! - Karli updated how to use spice with ovirt from OS X http://www.ovirt.org/SPICE_Remote-Viewer_on_OS_X - Opaque (spice android ovirt client) v1.1.8 beta released https://plus.google.com/communities/116099119712127782216 - how to deploy windows guest agent on windows: http://bit.ly/1kr5tJo - Andrew Lau posted on working through Hosted Engine with 3.4.0 beta http://bit.ly/1eobzZw - Deep Dive into oVirt 3.3.3 by Li Jiansheng (chinese) http://slidesha.re/1eFWQ8G - Matthew Bingham posted a series of video on setting up ovirt: Install oVirt 3.3.2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWT-m-oWSjQ Optional export nfs mount for oVirt 3.3.2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLbPln5-2jE Initial webgui oVirt 3.3.2 Steps for storage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL0_03ZICw4 Download and upload client iso to ISO_DOMAIN for oVirt 3.3.2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDzTHFSmvGE

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