December 2017 - Announce - oVirt List Archives

[Call for feedback] share also your successful upgrades experience
by Sandro Bonazzola 21 Dec '17

21 Dec '17

Hi, now that oVirt 4.2.0 has been released, we're starting to see some reports about issues that for now are related to not so common deployments. We'd also like to get some feedback from those who upgraded to this amazing release without any issue and add these positive feedback under our developers (digital) Christmas tree as a gift for the effort put in this release. Looking forward to your positive reports! Not having positive feedback? Let us know too! We are putting an effort in the next weeks to promptly assist whoever hit troubles during or after the upgrade. Let us know in this users(a)ovirt.org mailing list (preferred) or on IRC using irc.oftc.net server and #ovirt channel. We are also closely monitoring bugzilla.redhat.com for new bugs on oVirt project, so you can report issues there as well. Thanks, -- SANDRO BONAZZOLA ASSOCIATE MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA ENG VIRTUALIZATION R&D Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/> <https://red.ht/sig> TRIED. TESTED. TRUSTED. <https://redhat.com/trusted>

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oVirt 4.2.0 is now generally available
by Sandro Bonazzola 20 Dec '17

20 Dec '17

The oVirt project is excited to announce the general availability of oVirt 4.2.0, as of December 20, 2017. This release unleashes an altogether more powerful and flexible open source virtualization solution that encompasses over 1000 individual changes and a wide range of enhancements across the engine, storage, network, user interface, and analytics. Key features include: - A redesigned Administration Portal, with an improved user-interface - A new VM portal for non-admin users, for a more streamlined experience - High Performance virtual machine type, for easy optimization of high performance workloads. - oVirt metrics store, a new monitoring solution providing complete infrastructure visibility - Support for virtual machine connectivity via software-defined networks - oVirt now supports Nvidia vGPU - The ovirt-ansible-roles set of packages helps users with common administration tasks - Virt-v2v now supports Debian/Ubuntu and EL and Windows-based virtual machines For more information about these and other features, check out the oVirt 4.2.0 blog post <https://ovirt.org/blog/2017/12/ovirt-4.2.0-now-ga/>. This release is available now on x86_64 architecture for: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 or later * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.4 or later This release supports Hypervisor Hosts on x86_64 and ppc64le (with 4.1 cluster compatibility only) architectures for: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 or later * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.4 or later * oVirt Node 4.2 (available for x86_64 only) See the release notes [3] for installation / upgrade instructions and a list of new features and bugs fixed. If you’re managing more than one oVirt instance, OpenShift Origin or RDO we also recommend to try ManageIQ <http://manageiq.org/>. Notes: - oVirt Appliance is already available. - oVirt Node is already available [4] - oVirt Windows Guest Tools iso is already available [4] Additional Resources: * Read more about the oVirt 4.2.0 release highlights: http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.2.0/ * Get more oVirt project updates on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ovirt * Check out the latest project news on the oVirt blog: http://www.ovirt.org/blog/ [1] https://www.ovirt.org/community/ [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?classification=oVirt [3] http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.2.0/ [4] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.2/iso/ -- SANDRO BONAZZOLA ASSOCIATE MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA ENG VIRTUALIZATION R&D Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/> <https://red.ht/sig> TRIED. TESTED. TRUSTED. <https://redhat.com/trusted>

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[ANN] oVirt 4.2.0 Third Candidate Release is now available for testing
by Sandro Bonazzola 18 Dec '17

18 Dec '17

The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the Third Candidate Release of oVirt 4.2.0, as of December 18th, 2017 This is pre-release software. This pre-release should not to be used in production. Please take a look at our community page[1] to learn how to ask questions and interact with developers and users. All issues or bugs should be reported via oVirt Bugzilla[2]. This release candidate includes fixes to the blocker bugs found while testing the second release candidate. This release is available now on x86_64 architecture for: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 or later * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.4 or later This release supports Hypervisor Hosts on x86_64 and ppc64le architectures for: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 or later * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.4 or later * oVirt Node 4.2 (available for x86_64 only) See the release notes draft [3] for installation / upgrade instructions and a list of new features and bugs fixed. Notes: - oVirt Appliance is already available. - oVirt Node is already available [4] Additional Resources: * Read more about the oVirt 4.2.0 release highlights: http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.2.0/ * Get more oVirt project updates on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ovirt * Check out the latest project news on the oVirt blog: http://www.ovirt.org/blog/ [1] https://www.ovirt.org/community/ [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?classification=oVirt [3] http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.2.0/ [4] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.2-pre/iso/ -- SANDRO BONAZZOLA ASSOCIATE MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA ENG VIRTUALIZATION R&D Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/> <https://red.ht/sig> TRIED. TESTED. TRUSTED. <https://redhat.com/trusted>

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[ANN] oVirt 4.2.0 Second Candidate Release is now available for testing
by Sandro Bonazzola 12 Dec '17

12 Dec '17

The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the Second Candidate Release of oVirt 4.2.0, as of December 12th, 2017 This is pre-release software. This pre-release should not to be used in production. Please take a look at our community page[1] to learn how to ask questions and interact with developers and users. All issues or bugs should be reported via oVirt Bugzilla[2]. This update is the second candidate release of the 4.2.0 version. This release brings more than 280 enhancements and more than one thousand bug fixes, including more than 500 high or urgent severity fixes, on top of oVirt 4.1 series. What's new in oVirt 4.2.0? - The Administration Portal has been completely redesigned using Patternfly, a widely adopted standard in web application design. It now features a cleaner, more intuitive design, for an improved user experience. - There is an all-new VM Portal for non-admin users. - A new High Performance virtual machine type has been added to the New VM dialog box in the Administration Portal. - Open Virtual Network (OVN) adds support for Open vSwitch software defined networking (SDN). - oVirt now supports Nvidia vGPU. - The ovirt-ansible-roles package helps users with common administration tasks. - Virt-v2v now supports Debian/Ubuntu based VMs. For more information about these and other features, check out the oVirt 4.2.0 blog post <https://ovirt.org/blog/2017/11/introducing-ovirt-4.2.0-beta/>. This release is available now on x86_64 architecture for: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 or later * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.4 or later This release supports Hypervisor Hosts on x86_64 and ppc64le architectures for: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 or later * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.4 or later * oVirt Node 4.2 (available for x86_64 only) See the release notes draft [3] for installation / upgrade instructions and a list of new features and bugs fixed. Notes: - oVirt Appliance is already available. - oVirt Node is already available [4] Additional Resources: * Read more about the oVirt 4.2.0 release highlights: http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.2.0/ * Get more oVirt project updates on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ovirt * Check out the latest project news on the oVirt blog: http://www.ovirt.org/blog/ [1] https://www.ovirt.org/community/ [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?classification=oVirt [3] http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.2.0/ [4] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.2-pre/iso/ -- SANDRO BONAZZOLA ASSOCIATE MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA ENG VIRTUALIZATION R&D Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/> <https://red.ht/sig> TRIED. TESTED. TRUSTED. <https://redhat.com/trusted>

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[ANN] oVirt 4.1.8 Release is now available
by Sandro Bonazzola 11 Dec '17

11 Dec '17

The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the oVirt 4.1.8 release, as of December 11th, 2017 This update is the eighth in a series of stabilization updates to the 4.1 series. This release is available now for: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 or later * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.4 or later This release supports Hypervisor Hosts running: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 or later * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.4 or later * oVirt Node 4.1 See the release notes [1] for installation / upgrade instructions and a list of new features and bugs fixed. Notes: - oVirt Appliance is already available - oVirt Live is already available [2] - oVirt Node will be available soon [2] Additional Resources: * Read more about the oVirt 4.1.8 release highlights: http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.1.8/ * Get more oVirt Project updates on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ovirt * Check out the latest project news on the oVirt blog: http://www.ovirt.org/blog/ [1] http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.1.8/ [2] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.1/iso/ -- SANDRO BONAZZOLA ASSOCIATE MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA ENG VIRTUALIZATION R&D Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/> <https://red.ht/sig> TRIED. TESTED. TRUSTED. <https://redhat.com/trusted>

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[ANN] oVirt 4.2.0 First Candidate Release is now available for testing
by Sandro Bonazzola 07 Dec '17

07 Dec '17

The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the First Candidate Release of oVirt 4.2.0, as of December 5th, 2017 This is pre-release software. This pre-release should not to be used in production. Please take a look at our community page[1] to learn how to ask questions and interact with developers and users. All issues or bugs should be reported via oVirt Bugzilla[2]. This update is the first candidate release of the 4.2.0 version. This release brings more than 280 enhancements and more than one thousand bug fixes, including more than 500 high or urgent severity fixes, on top of oVirt 4.1 series. What's new in oVirt 4.2.0? - The Administration Portal has been completely redesigned using Patternfly, a widely adopted standard in web application design. It now features a cleaner, more intuitive design, for an improved user experience. - There is an all-new VM Portal for non-admin users. - A new High Performance virtual machine type has been added to the New VM dialog box in the Administration Portal. - Open Virtual Network (OVN) adds support for Open vSwitch software defined networking (SDN). - oVirt now supports Nvidia vGPU. - The ovirt-ansible-roles set of packages help users with common administration tasks. - Virt-v2v now supports Debian/Ubuntu based VMs. For more information about these and other features, check out the oVirt 4.2.0 blog post <https://ovirt.org/blog/2017/11/introducing-ovirt-4.2.0-beta/> and stay tuned for further blog post. This release is available now on x86_64 architecture for: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 or later * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.4 or later This release supports Hypervisor Hosts on x86_64 and ppc64le architectures for: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 or later * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.4 or later * oVirt Node 4.2 (available for x86_64 only) See the release notes draft [3] for installation / upgrade instructions and a list of new features and bugs fixed. Notes: - oVirt Appliance is already available. - oVirt Node is already available [4] Additional Resources: * Read more about the oVirt 4.2.0 release highlights: http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.2.0/ * Get more oVirt project updates on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ovirt * Check out the latest project news on the oVirt blog: http://www.ovirt.org/blog/ [1] https://www.ovirt.org/community/ [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?classification=oVirt [3] http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.2.0/ [4] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.2-pre/iso/ -- SANDRO BONAZZOLA ASSOCIATE MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA ENG VIRTUALIZATION R&D Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/> <https://red.ht/sig> TRIED. TESTED. TRUSTED. <https://redhat.com/trusted>

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[ANN] oVirt 4.1.8 Fourth Release Candidate is now available
by Simone Tiraboschi 01 Dec '17

01 Dec '17

The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the Fourth Release Candidate of oVirt 4.1.8, as of November 30th, 2017 This update is the eighth in a series of stabilization updates to the 4.1 series. Starting from 4.1.5 oVirt supports libgfapi [5]. Using libgfapi provides a real performance boost for ovirt when using GlusterFS . Due to a known issue [6], using this will break live storage migration. This is expected to be fixed soon. If you do not use live storage migration you can give it a try. Use [7] for more details on how to enable it. This release is available now for: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 or later * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.4 or later This release supports Hypervisor Hosts running: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 or later * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.4 or later * oVirt Node 4.1 See the release notes draft [3] for installation / upgrade instructions and a list of new features and bugs fixed. Notes: * oVirt Appliance is already available * oVirt Live is already available[4] * oVirt Node is already available[4] Additional Resources: * Read more about the oVirt 4.1.8 release highlights: http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.1.8/ * Get more oVirt Project updates on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ovirt * Check out the latest project news on the oVirt blog: http://www.ovirt.org/blog/ [1] https://www.ovirt.org/community/ [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?classification=oVirt [3] http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.1.8/ [4] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.1-pre/iso/ [5] http://staged-gluster-docs.readthedocs.io/en/release3.7.0beta1/Features/lib… [6] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1306562 [7] http://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/storage/glusterfs-…

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