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[ANN] oVirt 3.5 Second Test Day - Tomorrow Jul 29th
by Sandro Bonazzola 28 Jul '14

28 Jul '14

Hi all, Tomorrow Jul 29th we'll have oVirt 3.5.0 second test day. On this day all relevant engineers will be online ready to support any issues you find during install / operating this new release. Just make sure you have 1 host or more to test drive the new release. If you're curious to see how it works, this is your chance. Thanks again for everyone who will join us tomorrow! Location #ovirt irc channel Please communicate here to allow others to see any issues What In this test day you have a license to kill ;) Follow the documentation to setup your environment, and test drive the new features. Please remember we expect to see some issues, and anything you come up with will save you when you'll install final release Remember to try daily tasks you'd usually do in the engine, to see there are no regressions. Write down the configuration you used (HW, console, etc) in the report etherpad[1]. Documentation Release notes: http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.4.0_release_notes Features pages links: http://bit.ly/17qBn6F If you find errors in the wiki please annotate it as well in report etherpad [1] Prerequisites / recommendations Use CentOS or RHEL 6.5 only. 6.4 is unsupported due to various issues (sanlock, libvirt, etc). Use Fedora 19 or 20. Latest RPMs repository to be enabled for testing the release are listed in the release notes page [2]. NEW issues / reports For any new issue, please update the reports etherpad [1] Feature owners, please make sure: your feature is updated and referenced on release page [2]. you have testing instruction for your feature either on test day page [3] or in your feature page. your team regression testing section is organized and up to date on test day page [3]. [1] http://etherpad.ovirt.org/p/3.5-testday-2 [2] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.5_Release_Notes [3] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.5_TestDay Thanks. -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com

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[ANN] oVirt 3.5.0 Second Beta is now available for testing
by Sandro Bonazzola 23 Jul '14

23 Jul '14

The oVirt team is pleased to announce that the 3.5.0 Second Beta is now available for testing as of Jul 21th 2014. The beta is available now for Fedora 19, Fedora 20 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 (or similar). Feel free to join us testing it on Tue Jul 29th second test day! This release of oVirt includes numerous bug fixes. See the release notes [1] for a list of the new features and bugs fixed. The existing repository ovirt-3.5-pre has been updated for delivering this release without the need of enabling any other repository. Please refer to release notes [1] for Installation / Upgrade instructions. New oVirt Live, oVirt Guest Tools and oVirt Node ISO will be available soon as well[2]. Please note that mirrors may need a couple of days before being synchronized. If you want to be sure to use latest rpms and don't want to wait for the mirrors, you can edit /etc/yum.repos.d/ovirt-3.5.repo commenting the mirror line and removing the comment on baseurl line. [1] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.5_Release_Notes [2] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-3.5-pre/iso/ -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com

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[ANN] oVirt 3.4.3 Release is now available
by Sandro Bonazzola 18 Jul '14

18 Jul '14

The oVirt development team is pleased to announce the general availability of oVirt 3.4.3 as of Jul 18th 2014. 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. The existing repository ovirt-3.4 has been updated for delivering this release without the need of enabling any other repository, however since we introduced package signing you need an additional step in order to get the public keys installed on your system if you're upgrading from an older release. Please refer to release notes [1] for Installation / Upgrade instructions. Please note that mirrors will need a couple of days before being synchronized. If you want to be sure to use latest rpms and don't want to wait for the mirrors, you can edit /etc/yum.repos.d/ovirt-3.4.repo commenting the mirror line and removing the comment on baseurl line. A new oVirt Live ISO will be available too[2]. [1] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.4.3_Release_Notes [2] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-3.4/iso/ovirt-live-el6-3.4.3.iso -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com

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[ANN] oVirt 3.4.3 Release Candidate is now available
by Sandro Bonazzola 10 Jul '14

10 Jul '14

The oVirt development team is pleased to announce the availability of oVirt 3.4.3 Release Candidate as of Jul 10th 2014 for testing. 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. The new repository ovirt-3.4-rc has been updated for delivering this release, please refer to release notes [1] for instructions on how to enable the repository and for Installation / Upgrade instructions. A new oVirt Live ISO will be available soon[2]. Feel free to join us testing it [3]! [1] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.4.3_Release_Notes [2] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-3.4-rc/iso/ [3] http://www.ovirt.org/Testing/oVirt_3.4.3_Testing -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com

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[ANN] oVirt 3.5.0 Second Alpha is now available for testing
by Sandro Bonazzola 01 Jul '14

01 Jul '14

The oVirt team is pleased to announce that the 3.5.0 Second Alpha is now available 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 [1]. A new oVirt Live iso is already available for testing[2] including all available updates from CentOS. An oVirt Guest Tools iso is now available too[3]. A new oVirt Node build will be available soon as well. Please note that mirrors will need a couple of days before being synchronized. If you want to be sure to use latest rpms and don't want to wait for the mirrors, you can edit /etc/yum.repos.d/ovirt-3.5.repo commenting the mirror line and removing the comment on baseurl line. Known Issues You can't add hosts to 3.5 clusters until a new VDSM build with 3.5 compatibility level will be released (All in One won't work). [1] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.5_Release_Notes [2] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-3.5-pre/iso/ovirt-live-el6-3.5.0-alpha… [3] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-3.5-pre/iso/ovirt-guest-tools/ovirt-gu… -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com

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oVirt May 2014 Updates
by Itamar Heim 12 Jun '14

12 Jun '14

* What's New? * oVirt 3.4.2 Released http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-June/025030.html * oVirt 3.5.0 Alpha 2 Released http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-June/024983.html * Join oVirt Google Plus community page: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/109346090491400112913 * Folks aren't waiting for 3.5 release to start using this one http://www.ovirt.org/Features/oVirt_Windows_Guest_Tools * René Koch is looking for insights so he can extend his Monitoring plugin to Zabbix * oVirt Node with Kimchi http://www.udpwork.com/item/12557.html * Amador Pahim created a small gtk based user portal http://alturl.com/9n2ek * Started mirroring ovirt to http://ovirt-china.org/ so Chinese nationals can get access to our content. * Gianluca Cecchi is looking at localizing the GUI to Italian * Package spice-xpi is now in Trusty and Utopic (debian/ubuntu) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/943510 * Events and Activities * oVirt workshop to be co-located with KVM Forum October 14 - 16, 2014 * We may be setting up a workshop/event in China sometime in late summer, based on feedback from China users group. OSCON is next up on July 20-24, 2014 * 适兕 (lijiangsheng1) presented oVirt FUDConf APAC 2014 Beijing http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-May/024740.html * Douglas on FISL 15 http://dougsland.livejournal.com/123103.html How to install oVirt. Room 41D pic.twitter.com/jvBCEdFzH2 * René Koch reports on oVirt open source events in Austria http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-May/024190.html * Recent Posts * Brian Profit posted on LWN: Virtual data center management with oVirt 3.4 http://lwn.net/Articles/600370/ * oVirt Korea Users Group - OVIRT 3.4 ON CENTOS 6.5 http://alturl.com/fvy3w * Setting up a TFTP server, PXE boot server with libvirt and virt-manager for ovirt-node (Douglas Landgraf) http://dougsland.livejournal.com/123242.html * Dan Kenigsberg was invited to the Xen Hackathon http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2014-June/007600.html * Related: Converting a VMware virtual machine to RHEV (KVM) http://alturl.com/2p6bw * Brian Proffitt reported on his trip to FISL http://t.co/kG2N20KP4H * "Techblue Software @TechbluSoftware TBS has recently implemented a fully featured virtual data-center using ovirt."

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[ANN] oVirt 3.4.2 Release is now available
by Sandro Bonazzola 10 Jun '14

10 Jun '14

The oVirt development team is pleased to announce the general availability of oVirt 3.4.2 as of Jun 10th 2014. 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. The existing repository ovirt-3.4 has been updated for delivering this release without the need of enabling any other repository, however since we introduced package signing you need an additional step in order to get the public keys installed on your system if you're upgrading from an older release. Please refer to release notes [1] for Installation / Upgrade instructions. Please note that mirrors will need a couple of days before being synchronized. If you want to be sure to use latest rpms and don't want to wait for the mirrors, you can edit /etc/yum.repos.d/ovirt-3.4.repo commenting the mirror line and removing the comment on baseurl line. A new oVirt Node and oVirt Live ISO will be available soon[2]. [1] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.4.2_Release_Notes [2] http://resources.ovirt.org/plain/pub/ovirt-3.4/iso/ -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com

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[ANN] oVirt 3.4.2 Release Candidate is now available
by Sandro Bonazzola 27 May '14

27 May '14

The oVirt development team is pleased to announce the availability of oVirt 3.4.2 Release Candidate as of May 27th 2014 for testing. 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. The new repository ovirt-3.4-rc has been updated for delivering this release, please refer to release notes [1] for instructions on how to enable the repository and for Installation / Upgrade instructions. A new oVirt Node and oVirt Live ISO will be available [2]. Feel free to join us testing it [3]! [1] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.4.2_Release_Notes [2] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-3.4-rc/iso/ [3] http://www.ovirt.org/Testing/oVirt_3.4.2_Testing -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com

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[ANN] oVirt 3.5.0 Alpha is now available for testing
by Sandro Bonazzola 20 May '14

20 May '14

The oVirt team is pleased to announce that the 3.5.0 Alpha is now available 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 [1]. A new oVirt Node build will be available soon as well. Please note that mirrors will need a couple of days before being synchronized: they currently have the first build we prepared on 2014-05-16. If you want to be sure to use latest rpms and don't want to wait for the mirrors, you can edit /etc/yum.repos.d/ovirt-3.5.repo commenting the mirror line and removing the comment on baseurl line. Known Issues VDSM packages released with the first 3.5.0 alpha have version lower than the ones we had in 3.4.1 so they won't be updated. You can't add hosts to 3.5 clusters until a new VDSM build with 3.5 compatibility level will be released (All in One won't work). [1] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.5_Release_Notes -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com

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oVirt April 2014 Updates
by Itamar Heim 12 May '14

12 May '14

(a bit late this month) Updates - oVirt 3.4.1 GA - oVirt 3.5 Storage overview http://www.slideshare.net/AllonMureinik/ovirt-2014featurereview35 - Nagios/Icinga monitoring plugin check_rhev3 1.4 released http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-April/023617.html - oVirt Guest Agent Repo for SLES 11 SP3 is available http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-April/023542.html Conferences - Help us spread the word about oVirt http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-April/023929.html - This weekend: FISL 2015 - oVirt Red Hat Summit 2014 Report http://alturl.com/sk5fc - Ravi Nori presented oVirt Overview in Northeast Linux Fest http://northeastlinuxfest.org/?p=222 - OSDC 2013 | Rene Koch: Enterprise Open Source Virtualisierung mit oVirt und RHEV (German) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVG0UrvJhUg - Grazer Linuxtage 2014 sessions and booth by Rene Koch, Peter Stoeckl and Frantisek Kobzik (German) http://glt14-programm.linuxtage.at/events/281.de.html http://glt14-programm.linuxtage.at/events/282.de.html Devel - AngularJS UI plugin sample (Vojtech Szocs) http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-April/023275.html http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-April/023673.html - oVirt JavaScript SDK (Design Proposal) http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-April/023060.html From the Web - Why oVirt 3.4 Rocks! (video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay4V34NkvS8 - oVirt Is Planning Some Virtualization Improvements http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTY1NjE - Personal Projects: oVirt At Home http://gurucollege.net/technology/personal-projects-ovirt-at-home/ - HowTo: Reset/change admin password http://alturl.com/onrpd - HowTo: Change default console to NoVNC http://alturl.com/3ryst - Hosted Engine install (video, russian) http://alturl.com/v2iv2 - Installing oVirt 3.4 http://www.peterfranza.com/2014/04/09/installing-ovirt-3-4/ - Internal/Isolated networks on oVirt http://freedominterface.org/?p=260

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