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oVirt 2020 online conference
by Sandro Bonazzola 29 Jun '20

29 Jun '20

It is our pleasure to invite you to oVirt 2020 online conference. The conference,organized by oVirt community, will take place online on Monday, September 7th 2020! oVirt 2020 is a free conference for oVirt community project users and contributors coming to a web browser near you! There is no admission or ticket charge for this event. However, you will be required to complete a free registration. Watch https://blogs.ovirt.org/ovirt-2020-online-conference/ for updates about registration. Talks, presentations and workshops will all be in English. We encourage students and new graduates as well as professionals to submit proposals to oVirt conferences. We will be looking for talks and discussions across virtualization, and how oVirt 4.4 can effectively solve user issues around: - Upgrade flows - New features - Integration with other projects - User stories The deadline to submit abstracts is July 26th 2020. To submit your abstract, please click on the following link: submission form <https://forms.gle/1RDUwPGKobJfKhaYA> More information are available at https://blogs.ovirt.org/ovirt-2020-online-conference/ 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. <https://mojo.redhat.com/docs/DOC-1199578>*

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[ANN] oVirt 4.4.1 Fifth Release Candidate is now available for testing
by Sandro Bonazzola 19 Jun '20

19 Jun '20

oVirt 4.4.1 Fifth Release Candidate is now available for testing The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of oVirt 4.4.1 Fifth Release Candidate for testing, as of June 19th, 2020. This update is the first in a series of stabilization updates to the 4.4 series. Important notes before you try it Please note this is a pre-release build. The oVirt Project makes no guarantees as to its suitability or usefulness. This pre-release must not be used in production. Important changes from previous versions - Wildfly has been updated to version 19.1 Final - oVirt Node has been rebased on top of CentOS 8.2.2004 - oVirt Node UEFI support has been re-introduced - Advanced Virtualization and openvswitch 2.11 have been updated to latest version available for CentOS 8.2.2004 Installation instructions For the engine: either use appliance or: - Install CentOS Linux 8.2 minimal from http://centos.mirror.garr.it/centos/8/isos/x86_64/CentOS-8.2.2004-x86_64-dv… - dnf install https://resources.ovirt.org/pub/yum-repo/ovirt-release44-pre.rpm - dnf update (reboot if needed) - dnf module enable -y javapackages-tools pki-deps postgresql:12 - dnf install ovirt-engine - engine-setup For the nodes: Either use oVirt Node ISO or: - Install CentOS Linux 8 from http://centos.mirror.garr.it/centos/8/isos/x86_64/CentOS-8.2.2004-x86_64-dv… ; select minimal installation - dnf install https://resources.ovirt.org/pub/yum-repo/ovirt-release44-pre.rpm - dnf update (reboot if needed) - Attach the host to engine and let it be deployed. This release is available now on x86_64 architecture for: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 or newer * CentOS Linux (or similar) 8.2 or newer This release supports Hypervisor Hosts on x86_64 and ppc64le architectures for: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 or newer * CentOS Linux (or similar) 8.2 or newer * oVirt Node 4.4.1 based on CentOS Linux 8.2 (available for x86_64 only) See the release notes [1] for installation instructions and a list of new features and bugs fixed. Notes: - oVirt Appliance is not yet available due to outage on Fedora infrastructure occurred during the build. - oVirt Node NG is already available. Additional Resources: * Read more about the oVirt 4.4.1 release highlights: http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.4.1/ * 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/4.4.1/ [2] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.4-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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[ANN] oVirt 4.4.1 Fourth Release Candidate is now available for testing
by Sandro Bonazzola 11 Jun '20

11 Jun '20

oVirt 4.4.1 Fourth Release Candidate is now available for testing The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of oVirt 4.4.1 Fourth Release Candidate for testing, as of June 11th, 2020. This update is the first in a series of stabilization updates to the 4.4 series. Important notes before you try it Please note this is a pre-release build. The oVirt Project makes no guarantees as to its suitability or usefulness. This pre-release must not be used in production. Some of the features included in oVirt 4.4.1 Release Candidate require content that will be available in CentOS Linux 8.2 but can’t be tested on RHEL 8.2 yet due to some incompatibility in openvswitch package shipped in CentOS Virt SIG which requires to rebuild openvswitch on top of CentOS 8.2. Installation instructions For the engine: either use appliance or: - Install CentOS Linux 8 minimal from http://centos.mirror.garr.it/centos/8.1.1911/isos/x86_64/CentOS-8.1.1911-x8… - dnf install https://resources.ovirt.org/pub/yum-repo/ovirt-release44-pre.rpm - dnf update (reboot if needed) - dnf module enable -y javapackages-tools pki-deps postgresql:12 - dnf install ovirt-engine - engine-setup For the nodes: Either use oVirt Node ISO or: - Install CentOS Linux 8 from http://centos.mirror.garr.it/centos/8.1.1911/isos/x86_64/CentOS-8.1.1911-x8… ; select minimal installation - dnf install https://resources.ovirt.org/pub/yum-repo/ovirt-release44-pre.rpm - dnf update (reboot if needed) - Attach the host to engine and let it be deployed. This release is available now on x86_64 architecture for: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 or newer * CentOS Linux (or similar) 8.1 or newer This release supports Hypervisor Hosts on x86_64 and ppc64le architectures for: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 or newer * CentOS Linux (or similar) 8.1 or newer * oVirt Node 4.4.1 based on CentOS Linux 8.1 (available for x86_64 only) See the release notes [1] for installation instructions and a list of new features and bugs fixed. Notes: - oVirt Appliance is already available for CentOS Linux 8 - oVirt Node NG is already available for CentOS Linux 8 Additional Resources: * Read more about the oVirt 4.4.1 release highlights: http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.4.1/ * 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/4.4.1/ [2] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.4-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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[ANN] oVirt 4.4.1 Third Release Candidate is now available for testing
by Lev Veyde 04 Jun '20

04 Jun '20

oVirt 4.4.1 Third Release Candidate is now available for testing The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of oVirt 4.4.1 Third Release Candidate for testing, as of June 4th, 2020. This update is the first in a series of stabilization updates to the 4.4 series. Important notes before you try it Please note this is a pre-release build. The oVirt Project makes no guarantees as to its suitability or usefulness. This pre-release must not be used in production. Some of the features included in oVirt 4.4.1 Release Candidate require content that will be available in CentOS Linux 8.2 but can’t be tested on RHEL 8.2 yet due to some incompatibility in openvswitch package shipped in CentOS Virt SIG which requires to rebuild openvswitch on top of CentOS 8.2. Installation instructions For the engine: either use appliance or: - Install CentOS Linux 8 minimal from http://centos.mirror.garr.it/centos/8.1.1911/isos/x86_64/CentOS-8.1.1911-x8… - dnf install https://resources.ovirt.org/pub/yum-repo/ovirt-release44-pre.rpm - dnf update (reboot if needed) - dnf module enable -y javapackages-tools pki-deps postgresql:12 - dnf install ovirt-engine - engine-setup For the nodes: Either use oVirt Node ISO or: - Install CentOS Linux 8 from http://centos.mirror.garr.it/centos/8.1.1911/isos/x86_64/CentOS-8.1.1911-x8… ; select minimal installation - dnf install https://resources.ovirt.org/pub/yum-repo/ovirt-release44-pre.rpm - dnf update (reboot if needed) - Attach the host to engine and let it be deployed. This release is available now on x86_64 architecture for: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 or newer * CentOS Linux (or similar) 8.1 or newer This release supports Hypervisor Hosts on x86_64 and ppc64le architectures for: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 or newer * CentOS Linux (or similar) 8.1 or newer * oVirt Node 4.4 based on CentOS Linux 8.1 (available for x86_64 only) See the release notes [1] for installation instructions and a list of new features and bugs fixed. Notes: - oVirt Appliance is already available for CentOS Linux 8 - oVirt Node NG is already available for CentOS Linux 8 Additional Resources: * Read more about the oVirt 4.4.1 release highlights: http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.4.1/ * 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/4.4.1/ [2] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.4-pre/iso/ -- Lev Veyde Senior Software Engineer, RHCE | RHCVA | MCITP Red Hat Israel <https://www.redhat.com> lev(a)redhat.com | lveyde(a)redhat.com [image: image.png] <https://red.ht/sig> TRIED. TESTED. TRUSTED. <https://redhat.com/trusted>

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[ANN] oVirt 4.3.10 is now generally available
by Lev Veyde 03 Jun '20

03 Jun '20

The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the general availability of oVirt 4.3.10 as of June 3rd, 2020. This update is the tenth 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 7.8 or later (but < 8) * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.8 or later (but < 8) This release supports Hypervisor Hosts on x86_64 and ppc64le architectures for: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8 or later (but < 8) * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.8 or later (but < 8) * oVirt Node 4.3 (available for x86_64 only) See the release notes [1] for installation / upgrade instructions and a list of new features and bugs fixed. Notes: - oVirt Appliance will be available soon - oVirt Node is already available[2] oVirt Node and Appliance have been updated including: - oVirt 4.3.10: http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.3.10/ - Latest CentOS 7.8 updates - latest CentOS Virt, OpsTools and Storage SIG updates Additional Resources: * Read more about the oVirt 4.3.10 release highlights: http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.3.10/ * 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/4.3.10/ [2] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.3/iso/ -- Lev Veyde Senior Software Engineer, RHCE | RHCVA | MCITP Red Hat Israel <https://www.redhat.com> lev(a)redhat.com | lveyde(a)redhat.com <https://red.ht/sig> TRIED. TESTED. TRUSTED. <https://redhat.com/trusted>

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