oVirt Community Newsletter: May 2015 Edition

[Brian Proffitt]

oVirt development is focusing on the next release, 3.6, and along the
way the community of users and developers have been talking up their
favorite virtual datacenter management platform.

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Software Releases
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oVirt 3.5.3 Second Release Candidate is now available for testing
http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2015-May/033088.html

oVirt 3.6.0 First Alpha Release is now available for testing
http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2015-May/032964.html

ovirt-0.04, bindings for the oVirt REST API, has been released
https://metacpan.org/release/HEINCE/Ovirt-0.04

A testing release for moVirt is still ready to check out
https://github.com/matobet/movirt

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In the Community
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Virtualization or Containers? Consider the Application
https://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/cloud-computing/831179-virtualization-or-containers-consider-the-application

Give Your Feedback on the New oVirt Dashboard
https://docs.google.com/a/proffitt.org/forms/d/1nGMgjHeWszisxWAuiV5eCahW_-OK_ytIiCpwEx_gFQE/viewform

oVirt Training and Workshop in Dubai!
https://www.facebook.com/events/524600861014320/

DRBD and oVirt/RHEV
https://youtu.be/Xk4xprKUf_U

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Deep Dives and Technical Discussions
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How to Install oVirt's Windows Guest Tools
http://community.redhat.com/blog/2015/05/how-to-install-and-use-ovirts-windows-guest-tools/

Real persistence with oVirt Node
http://dummdida.tumblr.com/post/118370107970/real-persistence-with-ovirt-node

SAML and oVirt 3.5
http://machacekondra.blogspot.co.il/2015/05/saml-and-ovirt-35.html

Working with oVirt - Part 1 [French]
http://www.it-connect.fr/ovirt-partie-1/

Saving the Configuration of Your oVirt Engine/RHEVM [French]
https://blog.yvonet.com/2015/05/19/Sauvegarder-la-config-oVirt/

Virtualization with oVirt Parts 1-4 [French]
https://blog.yvonet.com/2015/03/27/virtualisation-avec-ovirt-1-introduction/
https://blog.yvonet.com/2015/03/31/virtualisation-avec-ovirt-2-preparation/
https://blog.yvonet.com/2015/04/02/virtualisation-avec-ovirt-3-installation/
https://blog.yvonet.com/2015/04/06/virtualisation-avec-ovirt-4-installation-suite-et-fin/

Using oVirt to Manage KVM in CentOS 7.1 Parts 1-3 [Japanese]
http://qiita.com/ine1127/items/1bc2f2ff12f38e19ba9a
http://qiita.com/ine1127/items/942ddd57b514f10e5127
http://qiita.com/ine1127/items/305fe44732f2e2d907da

Compiling ovirt-guest-agent on FreeBSD
http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2015-May/033069.html

New Lab Environment — Ovirt Installation (Part 1)
http://www.ct-unlimited.org/2015/05/19/new-lab-environment-ovirt-installation-part-1/

Kubernetes and oVirt Cloud Provider (Sept. 2014)
https://youtu.be/JyyST4ZKne8

oVirt and OpenStack network integración via Neutron SDN using
OriginStack [Spanish]
https://youtu.be/P0_s6JjFM1o

ovirt – Force a host from the cluster. (unsupported) tested ver3.5.2
https://12nix.wordpress.com/2015/05/11/ovirt-force-an-host-from-the-cluster-unsupported-tested-ver3-5-2/


Brian Proffitt

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