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oVirt Newsletter: April 2015 Edition
by Brian Proffitt 05 May '15

05 May '15

May is upon us, and the oVirt community is getting more active with API work, and spreading the word about how to deploy and use oVirt! ----------------- Software Releases ----------------- oVirt 3.5.2 went live on April 28. Check out the latest stable release today! http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2015-April/032571.html libgovirt 0.3.3, a GObject-based library to access oVirt REST API, was released April 8. http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2015-April/032304.html ovirt-0.01, bindings for the oVirt REST API, was released April 25. http://search.cpan.org/~heince/Ovirt-0.01/ A testing release for moVirt is now ready to check out https://github.com/matobet/movirt ---------------- In the Community ---------------- Two Hypervisors, One Great Collaboration http://community.redhat.com/blog/2015/04/two-hypervisors-one-great-collabor… Welcome to the brand-new oVirt/RHEV User Group (Malaysia) on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/groups/ovirtUGMY/ 10 Things You Should Know About oVirt https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/10-things-you-should-know-ovirt-freddy-rolla… oVirt makes a splash at Sasoconf in Argentina [En Español] http://www.itrestauracion.com.ar/?p=2031 ------------------------------------ Deep Dives and Technical Discussions ------------------------------------ How to Install RedHat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.5 – Part 1 http://www.tecmint.com/install-redhat-virtualization-rhev/ NodeWolf provides hosted oVirt services https://nodewolf.com/hosted-ovirt.html oVirt 3.5 - Einführung und Evaluierungsergebnisse ["Introduction and Evaluation Results", Auf Deutsch] http://www.slideshare.net/inovex/ovirt-35-einfhrung-und-evaluierungsergebni… Learning oVirt http://terminalmonkey.com/2015/04/11/learning-ovirt/ How to open a console on Windows with oVirt and Spice https://12nix.wordpress.com/2015/04/17/ovirt-open-a-console-on-windows-spic… Solving NP Hard Scheduling Problems with oVirt and OptaPlan https://youtu.be/O-n5zcNwPkM oVirt's integration with virt-v2v https://youtu.be/QSss__Nl5rU oVirt ~ Installation https://bordeltabernacle.wordpress.com/2015/04/13/ovirt-installation/

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Minutes: oVirt Weekly Sync (Open Format)
by Brian Proffitt 22 Apr '15

22 Apr '15

Minutes: http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-04-22-14.02.html Minutes (text): http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-04-22-14.02.txt Log: http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-04-22-14.02.log.html ======================================= #ovirt: oVirt Weekly Sync (Open Format) ======================================= Meeting started by bkp at 14:02:19 UTC. The full logs are available at http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-04-22-14.02.log.html . Meeting summary --------------- * Agenda (bkp, 14:04:08) * 3.5 news (bkp, 14:04:33) * 3.6 news/discussion (bkp, 14:04:45) * Open Discussion (bkp, 14:04:55) * 3.5 news/discussion (bkp, 14:06:35) * 3.5 general status email: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2015-April/010315.html (bkp, 14:12:58) * 3.5.2 looks good for April 28 (bkp, 14:13:01) * 3.5.2, only one bug in QA (bkp, 14:13:03) * sbonazzo needs maintainers to review the package list he sent on RC4 release, to be sure that listed packages correspond to the ones maintainers want to release (bkp, 14:13:07) * 3.6 news/discussion (bkp, 14:13:29) * Brief general status for 3.6 here: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2015-April/010310.html (bkp, 14:28:29) * el6 repo broken by the removal of vdsm, infra and node (fabiand) must address in the next couple of days (bkp, 14:28:32) * Node needs to be dropped on el6, which, according to sbonazzo some related job is still building RPMs for el6 (bkp, 14:28:35) * Today (22.4.15) is feature submission deadline for 3.6 (bkp, 14:28:38) * Submitted features need to be reviewed. (bkp, 14:28:40) * An alpha release of 3.6 is scheduled for May 6 (bkp, 14:28:43) * Open Discussion (bkp, 14:28:44) * Inquiry about jdk 1.8 / wildfly support for dev infra, no initial response. Using jdk 1.7 as a fallback is not optimal, sbonazzo reports (bkp, 14:28:46) * Node is building nicely and the team is cleaning up and preparing for 3.6, fabiand reports (bkp, 14:28:49) * On the issue of server hardening, dcaro reports that we are waiting for the sec team to finish the checks and give more feedback on best practices (bkp, 14:53:45) * bkp suggests that office hours be held for set half-hour periods, moderated by a rotation of community members. Format should be open, answering all questions and discussing any cross-team/community-wide issues as needed. Twice a week, Tuesdays and Thursdays. (bkp, 14:53:48) * ACTION: bkp will ask on community mailing lists to finalize discussion on office hour format (bkp, 14:53:52) Meeting ended at 14:54:10 UTC. Action Items ------------ * bkp will ask on community mailing lists to finalize discussion on office hour format Action Items, by person ----------------------- * bkp * bkp will ask on community mailing lists to finalize discussion on office hour format * **UNASSIGNED** * (none) People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * bkp (73) * sbonazzo (56) * dcaro (14) * fabiand (7) * mr_chris (4) * ovirtbot (2) * awels (1) * misc (1) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot -- Brian Proffitt Community Liaison oVirt Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com Phone: +1 574 383 9BKP IRC: bkp @ OFTC

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oVirt Weekly Sync - 2015-04-15
by Sandro Bonazzola 15 Apr '15

15 Apr '15

========================= #ovirt: oVirt Weekly Sync ========================= Meeting started by sbonazzo at 14:01:45 UTC. The full logs are available at http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-04-15-14.01.log.html . Meeting ended Wed Apr 15 14:59:06 2015 UTC. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot . (v 0.1.4) Minutes: http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-04-15-14.01.html Minutes (text): http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-04-15-14.01.txt Log: http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-04-15-14.01.log.html Meeting summary --------------- * Agenda and Roll Call (sbonazzo, 14:01:45) * infra_ownr|dcaro: Security incident status (sbonazzo, 14:01:45) * bkp: conferences and workshops (sbonazzo, 14:01:45) * ydary: Sync future and format change (sbonazzo, 14:01:45) * sbonazzo: Outages in Jenkins due to no space left on master (sbonazzo, 14:01:46) * sbonazzo: Blockers review for 3.5.2 GA (sbonazzo, 14:01:46) * sbonazzo: Packages review for 3.5.2 GA (sbonazzo, 14:01:48) * sbonazzo: Next week is feature submission deadline: plans for reviewing submitted features (sbonazzo, 14:01:48) * sbonazzo: Support for JDK 1.8 / Wildfly progress updates / Contingency plan of building Java7 rpms for Fedora 22. (sbonazzo, 14:01:50) * SvenKieske: review Bug 1156115 - [RFE] don't use dd to copy sparse images in order to save time and bandwith from exportdomain (sbonazzo, 14:01:50) * Security incident status (sbonazzo, 14:03:46) * We did got hacked, a couple of files where uploaded but no privilege escalation. (sbonazzo, 14:05:18) * oVirt infra solved the issue though they are still scanning for more security and planning to highly improve the security asap (sbonazzo, 14:05:18) * ACTION: oVirt infra to highly improve the security asap (sbonazzo, 14:05:18) * conferences and workshops (sbonazzo, 14:07:41) * the most important thing is yet-another request for help at Grazer Linux Days in Graz, Austria this weekend (sbonazzo, 14:07:41) * Rene Koch is seeking backup help manning the booth at that event (sbonazzo, 14:07:41) * LINK: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2015-April/032251.html (sbonazzo, 14:07:41) * All other event and conference news is the same as two weeks ago. (sbonazzo, 14:07:41) * LINK: http://plain.resources.ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-04-01-14.02… (sbonazzo, 14:07:42) * Sync future and format change (sbonazzo, 14:09:25) * bkp sent some thoughts to mailing list (sbonazzo, 14:09:25) * LINK: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2015-April/032389.html (sbonazzo, 14:09:25) * LINK: previous meeting logs: http://plain.resources.ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-04-08-14.09… (sbonazzo, 14:10:21) * AGREED: on a series of "office hours," where a rotating set of oVirt team members will commit to being on IRC to answer questions and be generally available. This could be done by one or two people, a few times a week/once a week, and not even a whole hour. Once a schedule is figured out, it would be posted and people would be openly encouraged to participate. This would be an open session on IRC... support questions, c (sbonazzo, 14:17:34) * AGREED: on carrying over to the mailing list topics that need to be covered there because the volounteer doesn't have the answers (sbonazzo, 14:18:35) * Outages in Jenkins due to no space left on master (sbonazzo, 14:20:11) * we had several issues in last few days with jenkins master going out of space (sbonazzo, 14:24:36) * solution is to limit job history to ~100 tops (sbonazzo, 14:24:36) * ACTION: jenkins job owners to review their jobs and fix them if needed (sbonazzo, 14:24:36) * Blockers review for 3.5.2 GA (sbonazzo, 14:25:31) * LINK: oVirt 3.5.z status: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2015-April/010261.html (sbonazzo, 14:25:51) * Storage updates (sbonazzo, 14:32:01) * Ceph integration - We gave QE a scratch build and it underwent first pre-integration, we got feedbacks from them, some are irrelevant anymore since more work has been done after the scratch build given to them and some was relevant and we are working on it (sbonazzo, 14:32:14) * SPM removal - nothing new from last week, work is still in progress (sbonazzo, 14:32:22) * Resize LUN - We had our first meeting with QE, no feedbacks from them yet (sbonazzo, 14:32:33) * the rest of the RFEs there's nothing to report for now, work is in progress (sbonazzo, 14:32:41) * Packages review for 3.5.2 GA (sbonazzo, 14:34:55) * LINK: candidates to 3.5.2 GA: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2015-April/010259.html (sbonazzo, 14:35:35) * qemu-kvm-rhev-1.5.3-86 is best candidate for 3.5.2 GA due to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1209034 related to qemu-kvm-ev-2.1.2-23 (sbonazzo, 14:37:24) * ACTION: maintainers please review the package list and ensure it's all you expect to be released there (sbonazzo, 14:37:53) * Support for JDK 1.8 / Wildfly progress updates / Contingency plan of building Java7 rpms for Fedora 22. (sbonazzo, 14:38:28) * infra update: Proceeding well with 3.6 items, fence refactoring is almost done, VDSM events work is in progress, host upgrade manager is progressing well both in the host and engine side, and more. We will also start looking at Jboss-widlfly support in a few days, and see how we can proceed with supporting it. (sbonazzo, 14:38:51) * ACTION: infra to follow up on Jboss-widlfly support for 3.6 (sbonazzo, 14:39:48) * ACTION: integration to check if contingency plan of using jdk7 may work (sbonazzo, 14:40:24) * SvenKieske: review Bug 1156115 - [RFE] don't use dd to copy sparse images in order to save time and bandwith from exportdomain (sbonazzo, 14:40:47) * Next week is feature submission deadline: plans for reviewing submitted features (sbonazzo, 14:41:45) * LINK: features spreadsheet: http://goo.gl/9X3G49 (sbonazzo, 14:47:46) * features without a feature page will take the bugzilla page as feature page to be reviewed (sbonazzo, 14:48:35) * Usually such features wouldn't need e.g. a contingency plan and test cases will be relatively obvious. (sbonazzo, 14:48:52) * ACTION: features owner to ensure all features have at least the bugzilla entry to be reviewed (sbonazzo, 14:49:26) * submission deadline is April 22th (sbonazzo, 14:50:07) * ACTION: follow up on how to review the proposed features (irc, hangout, ...) (sbonazzo, 14:54:15) * Other topics (sbonazzo, 14:54:25) Meeting ended at 14:59:06 UTC. Action Items ------------ * oVirt infra to highly improve the security asap * jenkins job owners to review their jobs and fix them if needed * maintainers please review the package list and ensure it's all you expect to be released there * infra to follow up on Jboss-widlfly support for 3.6 * integration to check if contingency plan of using jdk7 may work * features owner to ensure all features have at least the bugzilla entry to be reviewed * follow up on how to review the proposed features (irc, hangout, ...) Action Items, by person ----------------------- * **UNASSIGNED** * oVirt infra to highly improve the security asap * jenkins job owners to review their jobs and fix them if needed * maintainers please review the package list and ensure it's all you expect to be released there * infra to follow up on Jboss-widlfly support for 3.6 * integration to check if contingency plan of using jdk7 may work * features owner to ensure all features have at least the bugzilla entry to be reviewed * follow up on how to review the proposed features (irc, hangout, ...) People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * sbonazzo (130) * lvernia (31) * ovirtbot (17) * tal (11) * SvenKieske (7) * infra_ownr|dcaro (6) * fromani (3) * alitke (2) * Mossel (1) * danken (1) * apuimedo (1) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com

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oVirt Weekly Meeting Minutes -- 2015-04-08.
by Yaniv Dary 08 Apr '15

08 Apr '15

Minutes: http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-04-08-14.09.html Minutes (text): http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-04-08-14.09.txt Log: http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-04-08-14.09.log.html ========================= #ovirt: oVirt Weekly Sync ========================= Meeting started by ydary_ at 14:09:19 UTC. The full logs are available at http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-04-08-14.09.log.html . Meeting summary --------------- * Agenda and roll Call (ydary_, 14:09:20) * Sync future and format change (ydary_, 14:09:45) * Sync future and format change (ydary_, 14:09:57) * No final call. Moving discussion to mailing list. See full log for details. (ydary_, 15:01:30) * ACTION: Please reply to mail on sync format with ideas on how to change this meeting's format to something more useful and engaging. Link: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2015-April/032185.html (ydary_, 15:05:32) Meeting ended at 15:05:46 UTC. Action Items ------------ * Please reply to mail on sync format with ideas on how to change this meeting's format to something more useful and engaging. Link: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2015-April/032185.html Action Items, by person ----------------------- * **UNASSIGNED** * Please reply to mail on sync format with ideas on how to change this meeting's format to something more useful and engaging. Link: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2015-April/032185.html People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * ydary_ (30) * bkp (28) * misc (19) * lvernia (14) * sbonazzo (8) * ovirtbot (3) * dyasny (2) * SvenKieske (2) * dcaro (2) * amureini (2) * dkuznets (1) * eedri (1) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot -- Yaniv Dary Technical Product Manager Red Hat Israel Ltd. 34 Jerusalem Road Building A, 4th floor Ra'anana, Israel 4350109 Tel : +972 (9) 7692306 8272306 Email: ydary(a)redhat.com IRC : ydary

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oVirt Community Newsletter: April 2015
by Brian Proffitt 02 Apr '15

02 Apr '15

April is here, and residents of the Eastern Seaboard in the US are feeling a rising hope that Winter is finally on its way out. In the oVirt community, work on oVirt 3.6 is ramping up, even as more people in the virtualization sector are talking us up. -------------------------------- Software Milestones and Features -------------------------------- Take a look at the upcoming Cinder/Ceph feature in in oVort 3.6! http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Cinder_Integration It was no April Fool's joke--oVirt 3.5.2 RC3 was released and is ready to test! http://t.co/fZhSQhadZV Arch Linux now has the ovirt-guest-agent available https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ovirt-guest-agent/ ---------------- In the Community ---------------- Two Hypervisors, One Great Collaboration http://community.redhat.com/blog/2015/04/two-hypervisors-one-great-collabor… CeBIT 2015 retrospective http://dummdida.tumblr.com/post/113959092885/cebit-2015-retrospective VDI Lives On with Help from oVirt http://community.redhat.com/blog/2015/03/vdi-lives-on-with-help-from-ovirt/ FOSSAsia Opens Doors For Many Open Source Projects http://community.redhat.com/blog/2015/03/fossasia-opens-doors-for-many-open… Disaster Recovery in oVirt - FOSSAsia 2015 https://youtu.be/mEiFVeS_6ck ------------------------------------ Deep Dives and Technical Discussions ------------------------------------ Progress on oVirt Node 3.6 http://dummdida.tumblr.com/post/112893789355/what-a-week-to-get-ovirt-node-… Install oVirt on CentOS 7 http://jensd.be/?p=550 Installing oVirt Hosted Engine [Video] [Spanish] https://youtu.be/W8ErWHXY66A Introducing vmcreate, a RHEV / oVirt Python API VM creation script http://www.clevernetsystems.com/rhev-ovirt-python-api-vm-creation-script/ Updates on the oVirt Appliances (installation of engine and node) http://dummdida.tumblr.com/post/114039260970/updates-on-the-ovirt-appliance… Virtualisation avec oVirt https://blog.yvonet.com/2015/03/27/virtualisation-avec-ovirt-1-introduction/ (With thanks to Itamar Heim for the links!) -- Brian Proffitt Community Liaison oVirt Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com Phone: +1 574 383 9BKP IRC: bkp @ OFTC

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oVirt Weekly Meeting Minutes -- 2015-04-01
by Yaniv Dary 01 Apr '15

01 Apr '15

Minutes: http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-04-01-14.02.html Minutes (text): http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-04-01-14.02.txt Log: http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-04-01-14.02.log.html ========================= #ovirt: oVirt Weekly Sync ========================= Meeting started by ydary at 14:02:24 UTC. The full logs are available at http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-04-01-14.02.log.html . Meeting summary --------------- * Agenda and roll Call (ydary, 14:02:34) * infra update (ydary, 14:02:36) * 3.5.z updates (ydary, 14:02:37) * 3.6.0 status (ydary, 14:02:39) * conferences and workshops (ydary, 14:02:40) * other topics (ydary, 14:02:42) * infra update (ydary, 14:04:53) * Jenkins slaves are being upgraded on centos 7.1. (ydary, 14:08:10) * No downtime expected. (ydary, 14:09:08) * 3.5.z updates (ydary, 14:09:55) * oVirt 3.5.2 RC3 released today. Announcement: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/announce/2015-April/000165.html (ydary, 14:10:57) * oVirt Live iso has been created and is already available on oVirt site. (ydary, 14:11:44) * oVirt 3.5.2\3.5.3 status update: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2015-April/010200.html (ydary, 14:12:43) * No blockers on 3.5.3 currently. (ydary, 14:13:04) * oVirt 3.5.2 GA may slip due to bug count and holidays. RC4 is expected. (ydary, 14:14:49) * 3.6 status (ydary, 14:15:23) * oVirt 3.6 status update: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2015-April/010192.html (ydary, 14:16:17) * Integration 3.6.0 Updates: qemu-kvm-ev hit master this morning thanks to centos 7.1. (ydary, 14:17:11) * Debian Jessie GA date has been announced to be April 25th, no progress on supporting it for now. (ydary, 14:17:25) * Network 3.6.0 Updates: SR-IOV patches started being merged. (ydary, 14:19:38) * Also merged allowing to pass a CIDR-style prefix in addition to complete subnet mask format when configuring IP for a host network. (ydary, 14:20:38) * Node 3.6.0 Updates: Worked on streamlining some build jobs, no progress other than that. (ydary, 14:22:53) * UX 3.6.0 Updates: UI over REST api feature has been bumped from 3.6 to 4.0. It is still in progress, but at a lower capacity since we have more time now. (ydary, 14:25:40) * SLA 3.6.0 Updates: REST quota API is in progress. (ydary, 14:27:47) * Started initial design for numa aware KSM using MoM. (ydary, 14:28:25) * SLA and Integ are also working on hosted engine enhancments. (ydary, 14:29:10) * Till end of this week SLA will have partial working flow of starting hosted engine vm from shared storage. Also patches for adding memory to load-balancing are in review. (ydary, 14:30:49) * Gluster 3.6.0 updates: Geo-replication management, volume snapshot, brick provisioning and gluster network role still in the works. No big changes. (ydary, 14:34:17) * Virt 3.6.0 updates: Discussing vdsm side of v2v. Also bulk stats/scale improvements on vdsm side and VNC+SPICE console almost finished. (ydary, 14:38:21) * Infra 3.6.0 updates: No change from last week. (ydary, 14:42:35) * Storage 3.6.0 updates: Cinder support - first series of engine patches merged, support most positive flows with disks. vdsm still needs to be taken from the draft branch. (ydary, 14:45:23) * SPM Removal - first series of draft patches up for review/playing, nothing merged yet. (ydary, 14:45:39) * Extending SD - some ux work, some patches pushed as drafts, not ready yet. (ydary, 14:46:07) * conferences and workshops (ydary, 14:46:44) * Planning for KVM Forum is up and running. KVM- and oVirt-related talks should be submitted at http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kvm-forum/program/cfp before May 1. (ydary, 14:47:23) * Reminder: CFP for All Things Open in Raleigh on Oct. 18-20. CfP for ATO closes on April 30 Details: http://bit.ly/1FUKYRv. (ydary, 14:47:51) * Reminder: LinuxCon EU, CfP for that event on Oct. 5-7 in Dublin, Ireland (and the co-located CloudOpen) is open. CfP closes on June 17. http://events.linuxfoundation.org//events/linuxcon-europe/program/cfp (ydary, 14:48:06) * New: There will be a large community room at Red Hat Summit (June 23-26). oVirt will join projects such as Gluster, ManangeIQ, RDO, and Project Atomic to host booths and a mini-track of community-oriented sessions. (ydary, 14:48:15) * OSS2015 in florence on may 16. (ydary, 14:48:51) * other topics (ydary, 14:49:20) * ACTION: Get involved in oVirt project! Spring Holidays / April edition: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2015-April/010199.html (ydary, 14:49:43) * We have nearly 500 people in our oVirt Facebook group, a nice milestone (thanks doron_mtg for pointing this out this morning)! There's 1,940 Twitter followers of @oVirt, in case anyone is asking. (ydary, 14:50:01) * The work on the web site conversion to MarkDown proceeds. Once that is done, we will work on the new site's organization/categorization, and then finalize the new features. So far, a blog platform, a live social media feed on the front page, an Ask/StackOverflow-like forum, and an interactive feature list are among the new features. (ydary, 14:50:17) * The decision on the Outreachy candidates will be made very soon. Itamar has approved two candidates for this round, and we are finalizing the decision now. Look for an announcement this week. (ydary, 14:50:41) Meeting ended at 14:51:44 UTC. Action Items ------------ * Get involved in oVirt project! Spring Holidays / April edition: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2015-April/010199.html Action Items, by person ----------------------- * **UNASSIGNED** * Get involved in oVirt project! Spring Holidays / April edition: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2015-April/010199.html People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * ydary (90) * sbonazzo (21) * bkp (14) * lvernia (10) * rgolan (8) * bkorren (7) * amureini (6) * awels (4) * sahina (4) * fabiand (4) * mskrivanek (2) * ovirtbot (2) * oved (1) * vissree (1) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot -- Yaniv Dary Technical Product Manager Red Hat Israel Ltd. 34 Jerusalem Road Building A, 4th floor Ra'anana, Israel 4350109 Tel : +972 (9) 7692306 8272306 Email: ydary(a)redhat.com IRC : ydary

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oVirt Weekly Meeting Minutes -- 2015-03-26
by Yaniv Dary 26 Mar '15

26 Mar '15

Minutes: http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-03-25-14.02.html Minutes (text): http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-03-25-14.02.txt Log: http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-03-25-14.02.log.html ========================= #ovirt: oVirt Weekly Sync ========================= Meeting started by ydary at 14:02:53 UTC. The full logs are available at http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-03-25-14.02.log.html . Meeting summary --------------- * Agenda and roll Call (ydary, 14:03:05) * infra update (ydary, 14:03:07) * 3.5.z updates (ydary, 14:03:08) * 3.6.0 status (ydary, 14:03:10) * conferences and workshops (ydary, 14:03:11) * other topics (ydary, 14:03:13) * infra update (ydary, 14:06:33) * CI breakage due to various missing deps in vdsm master is being fix now. (ydary, 14:08:31) * Jobs queue in jenkins is over 200 jobs, we need to find a way to process them in a faster way. Still waiting for new memory upgrades in phx lab. (ydary, 14:09:18) * Many jobs are starting for each patch causing load. Other than memory upgrade there is discssion on running some jobs in sequnce. mvk and dcaro are looking into this. (ydary, 14:12:47) * 3.5.z updates (ydary, 14:17:06) * 3.5.z status: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2015-March/032022.html (ydary, 14:19:41) * 5 blockers open, RC3 will be released next week, once they are all fixed. (ydary, 14:20:11) * 5 blockers open, oVirt 3.5.2 RC3 will be released next week, once they are all fixed. (ydary, 14:21:30) * ACTION: 3.5 branch tester, please use the CentOS 7 with CR enable, since we want to get early issues with this update. (ydary, 14:22:40) * 3.6 status (ydary, 14:23:12) * oVirt 3.6.0 Status: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2015-March/032019.html (ydary, 14:23:47) * Master branch broken on dependencies issues that is being worked on. (ydary, 14:24:19) * Integration 3.6 Status Update: Progress has been done this week for using cloud-init when deploying the engine using the ovirt-appliance. (ydary, 14:25:33) * Also on moving the hosted engine configuration to shared storage and supporting hyperconverged gluster. Several patches are currently under review. (ydary, 14:26:08) * No updates on Fedora 22 or Debian support this week. (ydary, 14:26:49) * FC22 support pending infra for wildfly / jdk 1.8. In Debian patches are pending review and there is a issue of libvirt package version available. (ydary, 14:29:41) * In CentOS, qemu-kvm-ev landed on Virt SIG for CentOS 7.1. (ydary, 14:30:13) * Storage 3.6.0 Status Update: Hosted Engine issues that may affect 3.5.0 is currently under investigation (#1205225). (ydary, 14:33:01) * No updates on feature status. (ydary, 14:35:55) * Gluster 3.6.0 Status Update: Geo-replication, volume snapshot management, brick provisioning and choosing gluster network for bricks - features merged and testing underway. (ydary, 14:37:06) * Waiting on testing issues for inital sanity. (ydary, 14:37:56) * REST API missing for these features and will be added in the next few weeks as well. (ydary, 14:38:25) * UX 3.6.0 Status Update: Patternfly tooltip infrastructure merged and Italian translation at 50% now. Other features are progressing nicely. (ydary, 14:41:37) * Node 3.6.0 Status Update: Big progress on the cockpit TUI migration. (ydary, 14:46:11) * rbarry added an initial backend for our configuration libraries (reusing the existing libraries from ovirt-node) to make them consumable from dbus and patches are been pushed. Currently pending builders and inclusion in some builds. Also progressed with refactoring to make the libaries consumable on regular hosts without breaking them. (ydary, 14:48:48) * Good progress on making the Engine appliance suitable for cloud-init usage with better integration with hosted-engine-setup. (ydary, 14:49:35) * Big effort is still in progress to clean up and align the node jenkins jobs better with the rest of oVirt CI. (ydary, 14:50:12) * Infra 3.6.0 Status Update: No updates from last week. (ydary, 14:51:48) * Virt 3.6.0 Status Update: V2V tool and passthrough devices work in progress. VM instance types images merged. (ydary, 14:56:59) * SLA 3.6.0 Status Update: No one attended from the team. (ydary, 14:57:42) * Network 3.6.0 Status Update: No one attended from the team. (ydary, 14:57:56) * conferences and workshops (ydary, 14:58:35) * Planning for KVM Forum is up and running. KVM- and oVirt-related talks should be submitted at http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kvm-forum/program/cfp before May 1. (ydary, 14:59:14) * There has been some discussion on the length of the oVirt Workshop track in this year's KVM Forum. Right now, it will be at least a full day, but if we get a bunch more oVirt sessions, then I can make the argument to try to expend the track's length. (ydary, 14:59:41) * CFP for All Things Open in Raleigh on Oct. 18-20. gshereme has expressed interest in doing a Workshop there. This would be a good, and could fill the need to do a Workshop in Dublin around LinuxCon EU. CfP for ATO closes on April 30 Details: http://bit.ly/1FUKYRv. (ydary, 15:00:42) * LinuxCon EU, CfP for that event on Oct. 5-7 in Dublin, Ireland (and the co-located CloudOpen) is now open as well. CfP closes on June 17, so there is time, but don't let it slip. http://events.linuxfoundation.org//events/linuxcon-europe/program/cfp (ydary, 15:01:07) * FISL16 in Porto Allegre, Brazil CfP closes soon (March 30) http://segue.fisl16.softwarelivre.org/#/. Any devs in the region are encouraged to attend this event. bkp id planning on attending Latinoware in Brazil later in 2015, so oVirt will have some presentation in South America this year. (ydary, 15:01:50) * other topics (ydary, 15:02:24) * Automated conversion of oVirt.org from MediaWiki to MarkDown is proceeding. Most of the content is coming across fine, with some overly complicated documents (such as ones with tables and footnotes) needing a little extra post-conversion work. The big issue is ensuring all documents are properly categorized so they show up in the correct site topography when we are done. (ydary, 15:03:12) * ACTION: If you have input on the tools to be presented in the new site, please let me know. So far, confirmed new additions include an oVirt-specific blog and some sort of Q&A forum, such as Ask or a StackOverflow-based forum. Feedback welcome! (ydary, 15:03:41) * till looking for case studies/users to highlight. itamar has pointed out a lot, but if you work with any oVirt users from new and interesting organizations, point them out to me. (ydary, 15:04:01) * ACTION: Still looking for case studies/users to highlight. Itamar has pointed out a lot, but if you work with any oVirt users from new and interesting organizations, point them out to me. (ydary, 15:04:23) Meeting ended at 15:05:46 UTC. Action Items ------------ * 3.5 branch tester, please use the CentOS 7 with CR enable, since we want to get early issues with this update. * If you have input on the tools to be presented in the new site, please let me know. So far, confirmed new additions include an oVirt-specific blog and some sort of Q&A forum, such as Ask or a StackOverflow-based forum. Feedback welcome! * Still looking for case studies/users to highlight. Itamar has pointed out a lot, but if you work with any oVirt users from new and interesting organizations, point them out to me. Action Items, by person ----------------------- * **UNASSIGNED** * 3.5 branch tester, please use the CentOS 7 with CR enable, since we want to get early issues with this update. * If you have input on the tools to be presented in the new site, please let me know. So far, confirmed new additions include an oVirt-specific blog and some sort of Q&A forum, such as Ask or a StackOverflow-based forum. Feedback welcome! * Still looking for case studies/users to highlight. Itamar has pointed out a lot, but if you work with any oVirt users from new and interesting organizations, point them out to me. People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * ydary (102) * sbonazzo (33) * fabiand (13) * bkp (12) * sahina (12) * awels (10) * danken (10) * eedri|wfh (6) * aaviram (4) * mskrivanek (3) * oved (2) * ovirtbot (2) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot -- Yaniv Dary Red Hat Israel Ltd. 34 Jerusalem Road Building A, 4th floor Ra'anana, Israel 4350109 Tel : +972 (9) 7692306 8272306 Email: ydary(a)redhat.com IRC : ydary

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oVirt Newsletter Special Edition: Mid-March 2015
by Brian Proffitt 19 Mar '15

19 Mar '15

It's a nice problem to have: it's been so busy in the oVirt community, we have to push out a mid-month newsletter just to keep up! ---------------- In the Community ---------------- Solving (NP-Hard) Scheduling Problems with oVirt and OptaPlanner http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/13x/presentations/solving-np-hard-sched… FOSDEM Virtualization Room Videos: Docker Integration in oVirt and IaaS https://video.fosdem.org/2015/devroom-virtualisation/dockerovirt__CAM_ONLY.… Live migration for containers is around the corner https://video.fosdem.org/2015/devroom-virtualisation/livemigration__CAM_ONL… LXD: The Container Hypervisor https://video.fosdem.org/2015/devroom-virtualisation/lxd.mp4 Observability in KVM--How to troubleshoot virtual machines https://video.fosdem.org/2015/devroom-virtualisation/observability.mp4 Provision and manage Docker containers with Foreman--Roll out your applications in containers with ease https://video.fosdem.org/2015/devroom-virtualisation/provisiondocker__CAM_O… Rocket and the App Container Spec https://video.fosdem.org/2015/devroom-virtualisation/rocketspec.mp4 Transplantation of VirtualBox to the NOVA microhypervisor https://video.fosdem.org/2015/devroom-virtualisation/transplantation.mp4 Under the hood of Docker Containers--In flight and at rest https://video.fosdem.org/2015/devroom-virtualisation/underhoodcontainers__C… Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse--Containers, KVM, Xen, and Security https://video.fosdem.org/2015/devroom-virtualisation/zombieapocalypse.mp4 ------------------------------------ Deep Dives and Technical Discussions ------------------------------------ Compiling oVirt-guest-agent on FreeBSD http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2015-February/031052.html Running oVirt's Guest Agent on Atomic as a Privileged Container http://www.projectatomic.io/blog/2015/01/running-ovirt-guest-agent-as-privi… Installing oVirt 3.5 on CentOS 7 (Hosted Engine) https://xrsa.net/2015/02/04/installing-ovirt-3-5-on-centos-7-hosted-engine/ Containerizing the oVirt Optimizer https://github.com/rgolangh/Fedora-Dockerfiles/tree/ovirt-optimizer/ovirt-o… Monitor oVirt or libvirt with SNMP and Zabbix http://jensd.be/?p=491 Move a guest from VMWare ESX to oVirt or RHEV http://jensd.be/?p=489 Trying out oVirt's Probabilistic Optimizer http://community.redhat.com/blog/2015/02/trying-out-ovirts-probabalistic-op… oVirt Platform Management with Ansible https://docs.ansible.com/ovirt_module.html Adding a Cockpit to Node http://dummdida.tumblr.com/post/111458709540/adding-a-cockpit-to-node Node goes Anaconda http://dummdida.tumblr.com/post/111851478485/node-goes-anaconda OVIRT engine unable to import old "Export storage": How to fix http://arm2armcos.blogspot.co.il/2015/02/ovirt-engile-unable-to-import-old.… Manage oVirt environment http://serverfault.com/questions/669978/manage-ovirt-environment Gluster ovirt integration_gluster_meetup_pune_2015 http://www.slideshare.net/N.Ramesh/gluster-ovirt-integrationglustermeetuppu… -- Brian Proffitt Community Liaison oVirt Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com Phone: +1 574 383 9BKP IRC: bkp @ OFTC

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oVirt Weekly Sync Meeting: March 18, 2015
by Brian Proffitt 18 Mar '15

18 Mar '15

Minutes: http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-03-18-14.01.html Minutes (text): http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-03-18-14.01.txt Log: http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-03-18-14.01.log.html Meeting summary --------------- * Agenda and Roll Call (bkp, 14:02:30) * infra update (bkp, 14:02:30) * 3.5.z updates (bkp, 14:02:30) * 3.6 status (bkp, 14:02:30) * Conferences and Workshops (bkp, 14:02:30) * other topics (bkp, 14:02:32) * infra update (bkp, 14:05:00) * infra update Upstream is mostly stable afaik, other than some gerrit issues dcaro is looking into (bkp, 14:13:33) * infra update We're waiting for a memory upgrade due to hosts in phx that will allow us to add more slaves to Jenkins (bkp, 14:13:36) * infra update There are a few slaves out of the pool currently upstream, waiting to be checked up, but no updates (bkp, 14:13:39) * infra update Some duplicated gerrit accounts were also fixed (bkp, 14:13:42) * 3.5.z updates (bkp, 14:13:50) * 3.5.z updates Full status at http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2015-March/031881.html (bkp, 14:18:13) * 3.5.z updates 3.5.2 RC2 build just completed, testing in progress. Released today, if tests passed (bkp, 14:18:16) * 3.5.z updates Some blockers open, some of them should be fixed by end of week (bkp, 14:18:19) * 3.5.z updates RC2 won't become GA due to existing blockers but at least we can test fixed bugs (bkp, 14:18:22) * 3.5.z updates Another RC will likely be available next week (bkp, 14:18:25) * 3.5.z updates We'll need to test it on Centos 7.1, too (bkp, 14:18:29) * 3.6 status (bkp, 14:18:29) * 3.6 status integration Full status at: http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2015-March/031878.html (bkp, 14:22:06) * 3.6 status integration Bug count on rise, no blockers yet (bkp, 14:22:09) * 3.6 status integration There is about one month before feature submission is closed (bkp, 14:22:12) * 3.6 status integration We had some progress with hosted engine features, moving the conf to shared storage and provisioning additional hosts by UX. But nothing testable yet (bkp, 14:22:15) * status UX Not many updates, we are making GOOD progress on the tooltips, stuff is being merged, hopefully soon we can mark it complete. (bkp, 14:24:16) * 3.6 status network No important milestones this week, nor last week. Progress proceeding apace. (bkp, 14:26:49) * 3.6 status network Some testing started on our host networking API feature even though it's not even merged! Some issues discovered. (bkp, 14:26:52) * 3.6 status network And the SR-IOV feature is going well, should start being reviewed/merged soon enough. (bkp, 14:26:55) * 3.6 status Gluster No updates this week. (bkp, 14:29:38) * 3.6 status storage Good progress all round, starting to see first drops of features to QA stakeholders (draft builds) (bkp, 14:32:01) * 3.6 status virt (bkp, 14:34:53) * 3.6 status virt No updates this week (bkp, 14:35:10) * 3.6 status Node No updates this week (bkp, 14:37:18) * 3.6 status SLA No updates this week (bkp, 14:40:37) * conferences and workshops (bkp, 14:40:52) * conferences and workshops FOSSAsia went very well. Talks were well-received, and we had great attendance at the oVirt workshop. (bkp, 14:41:27) * conferences and workshops James Jiang from Cloud-Times came in from Beijing and spoke on VDI. He outlined use cases for their commercial version of oVirt that deploy up to 10,000 VMs! (bkp, 14:41:30) * conferences and workshops Reminder: KVM Forum registration is now open http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kvm-forum/attend/register (bkp, 14:41:34) * conferences and workshops KVM Forum CfP is open, too, at: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kvm-forum/program/cfp (bkp, 14:41:37) * conferences and workshops Please note, again: there *will* be an official oVirt track in KVM Forum this year that will serve as the oVirt Workshop, so keep that in mind when submitting proposals. (bkp, 14:41:40) * conferences and workshops CfP is open for 10th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '15), in conjunction with Euro-Par 2015, August 24-28, Vienna, Austria (bkp, 14:41:44) * conferences and workshops oss2015 in Florence, Italy is coming up on May 16-17: we'll have an oVirt session on May 16 at 17:00 (bkp, 14:41:48) * Other Topics (bkp, 14:42:37) * ACTION: Everyone make a note of the sync time next week: it's 1000 EDT. (bkp, 14:45:23) Meeting ended at 14:45:46 UTC. Action Items ------------ * Everyone make a note of the sync time next week: it's 1000 EDT. Action Items, by person ----------------------- * **UNASSIGNED** * Everyone make a note of the sync time next week: it's 1000 EDT. People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * bkp (99) * lvernia (19) * sbonazzo (18) * eedri (5) * awels (4) * amureini (3) * ovirtbot (3) * infra_owner|dcaro (2) * tal (1) * bkorren (1) * mlipchuk (1) -- Brian Proffitt Community Liaison oVirt Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com Phone: +1 574 383 9BKP IRC: bkp @ OFTC

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oVirt Weekly Sync Meeting: March 11, 2014
by Brian Proffitt 11 Mar '15

11 Mar '15

========================= #ovirt: oVirt Weekly Sync ========================= Meeting started by bkp at 14:08:37 UTC. Minutes: http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-03-11-14.08.html Minutes (text): http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-03-11-14.08.txt Log: http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-03-11-14.08.log.html Meeting started by bkp at 14:08:37 UTC. The full logs are available at http://ovirt.org/meetings/ovirt/2015/ovirt.2015-03-11-14.08.log.html . Meeting summary --------------- * Agenda and Roll Call (bkp, 14:09:26) * infra update (bkp, 14:09:26) * 3.5.z updates (bkp, 14:09:26) * 3.6.0 status (bkp, 14:09:26) * conferences and workshops (bkp, 14:09:26) * other topics (bkp, 14:09:29) * infra update (bkp, 14:12:14) * infra update jenkins seems quite stable, a few issues still open like jobs hanging from time to time or failing on epel not reachable overnight (bkp, 14:20:36) * infra update Few people requested wiki accounts. doron_afk approved it today (bkp, 14:20:40) * infra update infra is looking into re-enforcing some more strict hooks via jenkins on stable jobs (bkp, 14:20:43) * 3.5.z updates (bkp, 14:20:56) * 3.5.z updates Full update at http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2015-March/031744.html (bkp, 14:25:47) * 3.5.z updates Appropriate calls to action were in that email ^^^ (bkp, 14:25:50) * 3.5.z updates 8 blockers still in place for 3.5.2 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1186161) (bkp, 14:25:53) * 3.5.z updates According to Oved, Bug 1195119 will be in by tomorrow noon, no other ETAs given. (bkp, 14:25:56) * 3.5.z updates alitke reports Eric Blake is creating a workaround for libvirt for bug 1199182. alitke pinged him about the bug to check on his progress. (bkp, 14:25:59) * 3.5.z updates RC2 has been tentatively scheduled for next week 2015-03-18 (bkp, 14:26:02) * 3.5.z updates eto will verify it also on CentOS 7.1 that should be out around the same date (bkp, 14:26:04) * 3.6 status (bkp, 14:26:10) * 3.6 status integration Full update at http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2015-March/031746.html (bkp, 14:29:47) * 3.6 status integration 566 bugs reported (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=target_release%3A3.6.0%…) no blockers (bkp, 14:29:50) * 3.6 status integration A couple of new packages landed on ovirt-master-snapshot-static and need to be tested: openstack-java-sdk-3.1.1 (only on Fedora 20) and jasperreports-server-6.0.1 (bkp, 14:29:54) * 3.6 status integration Not much progress on the features this last week (bkp, 14:29:58) * 3.6 status UX Making good progress on oVirt.js and tooltips (bkp, 14:32:04) * 3.6 status network No update this week (bkp, 14:34:43) * 3.6 status Gluster good progress made on geo-replication and volume snapshot management features (bkp, 14:37:15) * 3.6 status Gluster The network team has also reviewed the gluster network role feature... merging in couple of days (bkp, 14:37:19) * 3.6 status storage Still working on 3.6 features (bkp, 14:39:14) * 3.6 status virt Nothing special, small RFEs got merged last week. Still working on major items. (bkp, 14:42:26) * 3.6 status Node No updates this week. (bkp, 14:45:10) * 3.6 status SLA Making progress with quota api closure (bkp, 14:48:01) * 3.6 status SLA While working with the integration team on some blockers to enable improvements on hosted engine (bkp, 14:48:03) * conferences and workshops (bkp, 14:48:41) * conferences and workshops mlipchuk and I are attending FOSSAsia next week, each delivering a talk, and hosting the half-day workshop on March 14. (bkp, 14:49:01) * conferences and workshops KVM Forum registration is now open, so pass the word along! http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kvm-forum/attend/register (bkp, 14:49:04) * conferences and workshops KVM Forum CfP is open, too, at: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kvm-forum/program/cfp (bkp, 14:49:07) * conferences and workshops CfP is open for 10th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '15), in conjunction with Euro-Par 2015, August 24-28, Vienna, Austria (bkp, 14:53:14) * conferences and workshops oss2015 in Florence, Italy, May 16/17: we'll have ovirt session on may 16 at 17:00 (bkp, 14:53:18) * other topics (bkp, 14:53:51) * We are starting the process of converting the MediaWiki formatted documents on the oVirt.org site to MarkDown. The translation is not had, but there are so manu uncategorized pages on the wiki, it makes it hard to automate the classification of each document and thus set up good URLs. (bkp, 14:54:03) * other topics CentOS Virt SIG meeting yesterday http://www.centos.org/minutes/2015/march/centos-devel.2015-03-10-14.01.html (bkp, 14:57:20) * other topics need to wait centos 7.1 for building a brand-new qemu-kvm-ev (bkp, 14:57:23) Meeting ended at 14:58:10 UTC. Action Items ------------ Action Items, by person ----------------------- * **UNASSIGNED** * (none) People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * bkp (104) * sbonazzo (25) * doron_ (5) * sahina (4) * ofrenkel (4) * tal (3) * awels (3) * eedri (3) * WKNiGHT (2) * karimb (2) * fabiand (2) * ovirtbot (2) * misc (1) * laravot (1) * mskrivanek (1) * doron_afk (1) * shaharh_ (1) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot -- Brian Proffitt Community Liaison oVirt Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com Phone: +1 574 383 9BKP IRC: bkp @ OFTC

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