oVirt February 2014 Updates

[Itamar Heim]

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