September 2019 - Announce - oVirt List Archives

UX team is looking for feedback and your thoughts around user settings!
by Sandro Bonazzola 02 Oct '19

02 Oct '19

oVirt UX team at Red Hat is currently looking for feedback and thoughts on the area of user settings within oVirt, both the VM and Administrator portal. If you have any ideas around user settings, we would love to hear from you! Please follow the link below[1] which will take you to a short survey that will ask some questions around proposed settings and give you the opportunity to suggest settings you would want to use. Thank you! [1] https://redhatdg.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a9uTOLlQ41lV7KJ -- Sandro Bonazzola MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA R&D RHV Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/> sbonazzo(a)redhat.com <https://www.redhat.com/>*Red Hat respects your work life balance. Therefore there is no need to answer this email out of your office hours.*

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[ANN] oVirt 4.3.6 is now generally available
by Sandro Bonazzola 26 Sep '19

26 Sep '19

The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the general availability of oVirt 4.3.6 as of September 26th, 2019. This update is the sixth in a series of stabilization updates to the 4.3 series. This release is available now on x86_64 architecture for: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 or later (but < 8) * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.7 or later (but < 8) This release supports Hypervisor Hosts on x86_64 and ppc64le architectures for: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 or later (but < 8) * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.7 or later (but < 8) * oVirt Node 4.3 (available for x86_64 only) Due to Fedora 28 being now at end of life this release is missing experimental tech preview for x86_64 and s390x architectures for Fedora 28. We are working on Fedora 29 and 30 support and we may re-introduce experimental support for Fedora in next release. 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 Node is already available[2] oVirt Node and Appliance have been updated including: - oVirt 4.3.6: http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.3.6/ - Wildfly 17.0.1: https://wildfly.org/news/2019/07/07/WildFly-1701-Released/ - Latest CentOS 7.7 updates including: - Release for CentOS Linux 7 (1908) on the x86_64 Architecture <https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-September/023405.ht…> - CEBA-2019:2601 CentOS 7 NetworkManager BugFix Update <https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-September/023423.ht…> - CEBA-2019:2023 CentOS 7 efivar BugFix Update <https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-September/023445.ht…> - CEBA-2019:2614 CentOS 7 firewalld BugFix Update <https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-September/023412.ht…> - CEBA-2019:2227 CentOS 7 grubby BugFix Update <https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-September/023441.ht…> - CESA-2019:2258 Moderate CentOS 7 http-parser Security Update <https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-September/023439.ht…> - CESA-2019:2600 Important CentOS 7 kernel Security Update <https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-September/023444.ht…> - CEBA-2019:2599 CentOS 7 krb5 BugFix Update <https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-September/023420.ht…> - CEBA-2019:2358 CentOS 7 libguestfs BugFix Update <https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-September/023421.ht…> - CEBA-2019:2679 CentOS 7 libvirt BugFix Update <https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-September/023422.ht…> - CEBA-2019:2501 CentOS 7 rsyslog BugFix Update <https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-September/023431.ht…> - CEBA-2019:2355 CentOS 7 selinux-policy BugFix Update <https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-September/023432.ht…> - CEBA-2019:2612 CentOS 7 sg3_utils BugFix Update <https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-September/023433.ht…> - CEBA-2019:2602 CentOS 7 sos BugFix Update <https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-September/023434.ht…> - CEBA-2019:2564 CentOS 7 subscription-manager BugFix Update <https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-September/023435.ht…> - CEBA-2019:2356 CentOS 7 systemd BugFix Update <https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-September/023436.ht…> - CEBA-2019:2605 CentOS 7 tuned BugFix Update <https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-September/023437.ht…> - CEBA-2019:2871 CentOS 7 tzdata BugFix Update <https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-September/023450.ht…> - latest CentOS Virt and Storage SIG updates: - Ansible 2.8.5: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.8/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.… - Glusterfs 6.5: https://docs.gluster.org/en/latest/release-notes/6.5/ - QEMU KVM EV 2.12.0-33.1 : https://cbs.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=26484 Given the amount of security fixes provided by this release, upgrade is recommended as soon as practical. Additional Resources: * Read more about the oVirt 4.3.6 release highlights: http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.3.6/ * 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/4.3.6/ [2] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.3/iso/ -- Sandro Bonazzola MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA R&D RHV Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/> sbonazzo(a)redhat.com <https://www.redhat.com/>*Red Hat respects your work life balance. Therefore there is no need to answer this email out of your office hours. <https://mojo.redhat.com/docs/DOC-1199578>*

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oVirt and CentOS Stream
by Sandro Bonazzola 26 Sep '19

26 Sep '19

Progress cannot be made without change. As technologists, we recognize this every day. Most of the time, these changes are iterative: progressive additions of features to projects like oVirt. Sometimes those changes are small, and sometimes not. And that’s, of course, just talking about our project. But one of the biggest strengths of our community’s software is that we are not alone, and because of that, changes to other projects have ripple effects that can affect our own, even in positive ways. This week, our collaborators in the CentOS Project have announced a change <https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-September/023449.ht…> in the way their software is released moving forward. Beyond this week release of CentOS Linux 8, the CentOS team has announced CentOS Stream, a rolling release distribution that will be the "midstream" between Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. To be clear, Fedora will remain as the first upstream of RHEL. But when RHEL branches off, CentOS will be upstream for ongoing work on those RHEL versions. This change gives public visibility into ongoing work on released RHEL, and a place for developers and community projects like ours to collaborate at that level. CentOS has been heading in the direction of Stream for quite some time. CentOS SIGs — the special interest groups for virtualization, storage, config management, and so on — have given our project a way to provide input into the CentOS platform. Now, though, we can actually provide direct improvements or fixes to CentOS Stream platform that will be beneficial to our project. Long-term, those project-specific changes can find their way into the next release of RHEL, providing smoother transitions for those users of our downstream projects. We expect the positive effects to extend beyond our own project’s ecosystem. Through CentOS Stream, developers will have early access to new features and content that are being built into the upcoming RHEL version. This will help to allow next-generation applications to have compatibility with future versions of RHEL. The benefits of these changes are clear for ecosystem developers working on projects such as ours, writing hardware drivers, or extending protocols for RHEL. As we push the innovations that start in Fedora through the new CentOS Stream, the community will have a clear vision of the future of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. For users of oVirt, we expect CentOS Stream to be the preferred upstream platform on which oVirt should be run, especially with the capability for our users to now contribute changes to our software and the community-built platform on which oVirt runs. -- Sandro Bonazzola MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA R&D RHV Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/> sbonazzo(a)redhat.com <https://www.redhat.com/>*Red Hat respects your work life balance. Therefore there is no need to answer this email out of your office hours.*

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[ANN] oVirt 4.3.6 Sixth Release Candidate is now available for testing
by Sandro Bonazzola 25 Sep '19

25 Sep '19

The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the oVirt 4.3.6 Sixth Release Candidate for testing, as of September 25th, 2019. This update is a release candidate of the sixth in a series of stabilization updates to the 4.3 series. This is pre-release software. This pre-release should not to be used in production. This release is available now on x86_64 architecture for: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 or later (but <8) * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.7 or later (but <8) This release supports Hypervisor Hosts on x86_64 and ppc64le architectures for: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 or later (but <8) * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.7 or later (but <8) * oVirt Node 4.3 (available for x86_64 only) has been built consuming CentOS 7.7 Release See the release notes [1] for known issues, new features and bugs fixed. Notes: - oVirt Appliance is already available - oVirt Node is already available Additional Resources: * Read more about the oVirt 4.3.6 release highlights: http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.3.6/ * 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/4.3.6/ [2] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.3-pre/iso/ -- Sandro Bonazzola MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA R&D RHV Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/> sbonazzo(a)redhat.com <https://www.redhat.com/>*Red Hat respects your work life balance. Therefore there is no need to answer this email out of your office hours.*

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CentOS 7.7 has been released: note it's not supported for oVirt 4.2
by Sandro Bonazzola 19 Sep '19

19 Sep '19

CentOS 7.7 has been released this week. Please note that CentOS 7.7 is not supported for oVirt 4.2 and older releases. If you want to upgrade to CentOS 7.7 please upgrade to oVirt 4.3 too. If you don't plan to upgrade to oVirt 4.3 please be sure your yum repo files points to http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7.6.1810/ instead of http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/. The http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/ URL is now pointing to http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7.7.1908/ so yum upgrade will bring you 7.7 content which may break your 4.2 installation. Thanks, -- Sandro Bonazzola MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA R&D RHV Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/> sbonazzo(a)redhat.com <https://www.redhat.com/>*Red Hat respects your work life balance. Therefore there is no need to answer this email out of your office hours.*

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oVirt conference 2019 - Rome - October 4th
by Sandro Bonazzola 10 Sep '19

10 Sep '19

The oVirt Italian community <https://www.facebook.com/groups/ovirt.italia/> and Extraordy <https://www.extraordy.com/> in collaboration with Red Hat <https://www.redhat.com>, Oracle <https://www.oracle.com>, and Storware <https://storware.eu/> are pleased to invite you at oVirt Conference 2019 in Rome on October 4th 2019! Tickets are available at https://www.eventbrite.it/e/biglietti-ovirt-conference-2019-innovate-the-da… Thanks -- Sandro Bonazzola MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA R&D RHV Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/> sbonazzo(a)redhat.com <https://www.redhat.com/>*Red Hat respects your work life balance. Therefore there is no need to answer this email out of your office hours.*

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[ANN] oVirt 4.3.6 Fifth Release Candidate is now available for testing
by Sandro Bonazzola 05 Sep '19

05 Sep '19

The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the oVirt 4.3.6 Fifth Release Candidate for testing, as of September 5th, 2019. This update is a release candidate of the sixth in a series of stabilization updates to the 4.3 series. This is pre-release software. This pre-release should not to be used in production. This release is available now on x86_64 architecture for: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 or later (but <8) * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.7 or later (but <8) This release supports Hypervisor Hosts on x86_64 and ppc64le architectures for: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 or later (but <8) * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.7 or later (but <8) * oVirt Node 4.3 (available for x86_64 only) has been built consuming CentOS 7.7 Candidate Release See the release notes [1] for known issues, new features and bugs fixed. Notes: - oVirt Appliance is already available - oVirt Node is already available based on CentOS 7.7 Candidate Release Additional Resources: * Read more about the oVirt 4.3.6 release highlights: http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.3.6/ * 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/4.3.6/ [2] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.3-pre/iso/ -- Sandro Bonazzola MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA R&D RHV Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/> sbonazzo(a)redhat.com <https://www.redhat.com/>*Red Hat respects your work life balance. Therefore there is no need to answer this email out of your office hours. <https://mojo.redhat.com/docs/DOC-1199578>*

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