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[ANN] oVirt 3.4.1 Release is now available
by Sandro Bonazzola 08 May '14

08 May '14

The oVirt development team is pleased to announce the general availability of oVirt 3.4.1 as of May 8th 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. Please refer to release notes [1] for Installation / Upgrade instructions. For Fedora 19 users, a known issue may cause installation failure due to recent changes in sos package. Please refer to release notes [1] known issues for resolving on your system. A new oVirt Node and oVirt Live ISO will be available [2]. [1] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.4.1_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 3.3.5 release
by Sandro Bonazzola 09 Apr '14

09 Apr '14

The oVirt development team is pleased to announce the general availability of oVirt 3.3.5 as of April 9th 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-3.3-stable has been updated for delivering this release without the need of enabling any other repository. See the release notes[1] for installation and upgrade instructions. A new oVirt Node and oVirt Live ISO will be available soon in [2]. [1] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.3.5_release_notes [2] http://resources.ovirt.org/releases/3.3.5/iso -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com

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oVirt March 2014 Updates
by Itamar Heim 04 Apr '14

04 Apr '14

*** Highlights *** - oVirt 3.4 was released! It has been a pleasure seeing the uptake of oVirt this year, culminating with the amount of traffic around 3.4 GA. Kudos and Thanks to everyone! http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/announce/2014-March/000098.html http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.4_Release_Announcement http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.4_Release_Notes (more on 3.4 below) - oVirt 3.3.4 Released. - Great to see some of the oVirt 3.5 discussions picking up. feature pages are sent for reviews / review sessions scheduled. - Docker UI plugin for oVirt by Oved Ourfali http://alturl.com/r9925 http://gerrit.ovirt.org/25814 - engine-devel and arch mailing list unified to devel(a)ovirt.org (and vdsm will try to track it as well) - Cool gamification progress bar plugin by Vojtech http://www.ovirt.org/Gamification - glance.ovirt.org is up and running Thanks to Oved (and available by default in 3.4) http://alturl.com/swv2x - IT Novum case study published ... with nearly 1,100 VMware virtual machines successfully migrated to oVirt... all on 960 CPU cores and 7680 GB of RAM... http://www.ovirt.org/IT_Novum_case_study http://www.it-novum.com/en/ovirt-en.html - Alon Bar-Lev updated Experimental Gentoo overlay is available https://github.com/alonbl/ovirt-overlay https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OVirt *** oVirt 3.4 Updates *** - Up and Running with oVirt 3.4 by Jason Brooks (Hosted Engine, glance.ovirt.org, etc) http://alturl.com/mjvrq - oVirt 3.4 provided the ability hosted engine and early support for PPC64 (Russian) http://tinyurl.com/ovp5zg5 - Free management software oVirt 3.4 with extended memory management (German) http://heise.de/-2158871 - Version 3.4 of oVirt management is virtualized (German) http://alturl.com/qi5kp - Download page refreshed, thanks to Brian Proffitt and others http://www.ovirt.org/Download *** Future Conferences *** - oVirt will be represented at the Summit Developer Lounge at Red Hat Summit by bkp, and ovedo will be speaking at DevNation - bkp ill have a session in LinuxFest NorthWest on April 26-27 - In addition to two sessions at FISL (Brazil), we get to do an oVirt community update session. There will also be oVirt discussions at a Red Hat dojo in Sao Paulo before FISL http://alturl.com/9w67g - Rene Koch is organizing two oVirt workshops in Austria: Grazer Linuxtage in Graz April 4-5 and Linuxwochen Vienna, May 8-10. http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-March/022797.html *** Past Conferences *** - Adam Litke pitched oVirt at the Linux Collaboration Summit http://alturl.com/3p6ro http://alturl.com/93452 *** Other *** - Kimchi 1.2 released http://miud.in/1F5K - New Foreman plugin with support for snapshots on oVirt http://is.gd/1UkLLS - Deploying oVirt 3.3 by Arnaud (French) http://www.it-connect.fr/ovirt-partie-1/ - iordanov published Opaque (Android Spice client) v1.2.2 Beta can now record audio using the microphone https://plus.google.com/111635076890324817164/posts/Bu1FaaoxGw8 - Extending oVirt/Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization with Vdsm hooks http://developerblog.redhat.com/2014/02/25/extending-rhev-vdsm-hooks/ - HP sending detailed feature pages for NUMA support, slated for 3.5.

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oVirt 3.3.5 Release Candidate is now available
by Sandro Bonazzola 02 Apr '14

02 Apr '14

The oVirt team is pleased to announce that the 3.3.5 Release Candidate is now available for testing. Release notes for this update and detailed installation instructions are available on the wiki [1]. Feel free to join us testing it [2]! A new oVirt Node build will be available soon as well. [1] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.3.5_release_notes [2] http://www.ovirt.org/Testing/oVirt_3.3.5_testing Thanks, -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com

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[Users] [Ann] oVirt 3.4 GA Releases
by Brian Proffitt 27 Mar '14

27 Mar '14

The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the general availability of its fifth formal release, oVirt 3.4, as of March 27, 2014. oVirt is an open source alternative to VMware vSphere, and provides an excellent KVM management interface for multi-node virtualization. oVirt is available now for Fedora 19, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5, and CentOS 6.5 (or similar). New features include: oVirt 3.4 Release Notes * Hosted Engine: oVirt 3.4 features hosted engine, which enables oVirt engine to be run as a virtual machine (VM) on the host it manages. Hosted engine solves the chicken-and-the egg problem for users: the basic challenge of deploying and running an oVirt engine inside a VM. This clustered solution enables users to configure multiple hosts to run the hosted engine, ensuring the engine still runs in the event of any one host failure. * Enhanced Gluster Support: Gluster Volume Asynchronous Tasks Management enables users to re-balance volumes and remove bricks in Gluster operations/rebalance and remove bricks in Gluster volumes. * Preview: PPC64: Engine Support for PPC64 will add PPC64 architecture awareness to the ovirt-engine code, which currently makes various assumptions based on the x86 architecture. When specifying virtual machine devices, for example, what is suitable for x86 architecture may not be for POWER (or may not be available yet). VDSM Support for PPC64 introduces the capability of managing KVM on IBM POWER processors via oVirt. Administrators will be able to perform management functionalities such as adding or activating KVM, creating clusters of KVM and performing VM lifecycle management on any IBM POWER host. Migration is still a work in progress for KVM on IBM POWER processor. * Preview: Hot-plug CPUs: oVirt 3.4 adds a preview of a Hot-plug CPU feature that enables administrators to ensure customer's service-level agreements are being met, the full utilization of spare hardware, and the capability to dynamically to scale vertically, down or up, a system's hardware according to application needs without restarting the virtual machine. This release of oVirt also includes numerous bug fixes. See the release notes [1] for a complete list of the new features and bugs fixed. The existing repository ovirt-stable has been updated for delivering this release without the need of enabling any other repository. A new oVirt Node build is also available [2]. [1] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.4_Release_Notes [2] http://resources.ovirt.org/releases/3.4/iso/ovirt-node-iso-3.0.4-1.0.201401… -- Brian Proffitt - oVirt Community Manager IRC: bkp @ #ovirt OFTC

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[ANN] oVirt 3.4.0 Second Release Candidate is now available
by Sandro Bonazzola 19 Mar '14

19 Mar '14

The oVirt team is pleased to announce that the 3.4.0 Second 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 will also be available soon. We decided to postpone Final Release by one week in order to properly test the bugs fixed since last Release Candidate. Help us make this the best release ever, testing it yourself! [1] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.4.0_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 Node ISO for oVirt 3.4 RC 2
by Fabian Deutsch 14 Mar '14

14 Mar '14

Hey, let me announce a respun oVirt Node for oVirt 3.4 RC 2. After some time this is finally available from where it belongs: http://resources.ovirt.org/releases/3.4.0_pre/iso/ovirt-node-iso-3.0.4-1.0.… There are also older releases of oVirt Node, in case that the latest version has unknown regressions. http://resources.ovirt.org/releases/3.4.0_pre/iso/ Please let us known about issues you run into. You can also let us know when Node "Just Works (TM)". Greetings fabian

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[ANN] oVirt 3.3.4 release
by Sandro Bonazzola 04 Mar '14

04 Mar '14

The oVirt development team is pleased to announce the general availability of oVirt 3.3.4 as of March 4th 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-stable has been updated for delivering this release without the need of enabling any other repository. A new oVirt Node build is also available [2]. [1] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.3.4_release_notes [2] http://resources.ovirt.org/releases/3.3.4/iso/ovirt-node-iso-3.0.4-1.0.2014… -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com

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oVirt February 2014 Updates
by Itamar Heim 03 Mar '14

03 Mar '14

1. Releases - oVirt 3.3.3 was released early in the month: http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.3.3_release_notes - oVirt 3.3.4 about to release. http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.3.4_release_notes - oVirt 3.4.0 about to release! 2. Events - Leonardo Vaz is organizing ovirt attendance at FISL15, the largest FOSS conference in LATAM which will happen from 7th to 10th of May in Porto Alegre, Brazil: http://softwarelivre.org/fisl15 - Allon Mureinik gave a presentation on DR with oVirt at devconf.cz http://www.slideshare.net/AllonMureinik/dev-conf-ovirt-dr - oVirt workshop in korea slides (korean) http://www.slideshare.net/rogan/20140208-ovirtkorea-01 https://www.facebook.com/groups/ovirt.korea - Rogan also presented oVirt integration with OpenStack in OpenStack day in Korea http://alturl.com/m3jnx - Pat Pierson posted on basic network setup http://izen.ghostpeppersrus.com/setting-up-networks/ - Fosdem 2014 sessions (slides and videos) are at: http://www.ovirt.org/FOSDEM_2014 - and some at Infrastructure.Next Ghent the week after forsdem. 3. oVirt Activity (software) - oVirt Jenkins plugin by Dustin Kut Moy Cheung to control VM slaves managed by ovirt/RHEV https://github.com/thescouser89/ovirt-slaves-plugin - Opaque oVirt/RHEV/Proxmox client and source code released https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.undatech.opaque - great to see the NUMA push from HP: http://www.ovirt.org/Features/NUMA_and_Virtual_NUMA http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Detailed_NUMA_and_Virtual_NUMA 4. oVirt Activity (blogs, preso's) - oVirt's has been accepted as a mentoring project for the Google Summer of Code 2014. - Oved Ourfali posted on "Importing Glance images as oVirt templates" http://alturl.com/h7xid - v2v had seen many active discussions. here's a post by Jon Archer on how to Import regular kvm image to oVirt or RHEV http://jonarcher.info/2014/02/import-regular-kvm-image-ovirt-rhev/ - great reviews on amazon.com for "Getting Started with oVirt 3.3" http://alturl.com/5rk2p - oVirt Deep Dive 3.3 slides (Chinese) http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/johnwoolee/ovirt-deep-dive# - oVirt intro video (russian) http://alturl.com/it546 - how to install oVirt 3.3 on CentOS 6.5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i5ilSKsmbo 5. Related - NetApp GA'd their Virtual Storage Console for RHEV, which is implemented as an oVirt UI plugin (and then some) http://captainkvm.com/2014/02/vsc-for-rhev-is-ga-today/#more-660

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[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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