oVirt Community Newsletter: February 2015

[Brian Proffitt]

February got started with many oVirt community members descended upon Brussels for FOSDEM! Our virtualization presentations were a big success, and helps get a productive month kick started.

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oVirt Software Milestones
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On Feb 27, oVirt 3.5.2 RC was released! http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/announce/2015-February/000159.html

Meanwhile, planning for oVirt 3.6 includes some very cool new features... including support for Ubuntu Hosts! http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.6_Release_Management#Key_Proposed_Changes

Here's when 3.6 should be rolling out... http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2015-February/031491.html

Check out oVirt 3.5.1.1 Live on a CentOS7 host today! http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_Live

moVirt is now an official oVirt incubator project! http://www.ovirt.org/Project_moVirt

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In the Community
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VDI in the largest Spanish university made easy with oVirt. http://www.ovirt.org/Universidad_de_Sevilla_Case_Study

Red Hat Launches Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.5 http://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-launches-red-hat-enterprise-virtualization-35-increased-scalability-management-and-integration-openstack

FOSDEM Virtualization: Docker Integration in oVirt and Live Migration of Containers with CRIU http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/02/fosdem-ovirt-criu

Fosdem and oVirt [Trip Report] http://dougsland.livejournal.com/124182.html

Get involved in oVirt project! March edition http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2015-March/031631.html

Step by Step - Reusing Old Features to Build New Ones http://www.slideshare.net/AllonMureinik/step-bystep-ovirtlivemerge

oVirt is happy to announce its participation in the next round of the Outreachy program. Register today! http://www.ovirt.org/Outreachy

FOSDEM Videos:

Fabricate Your Automated DevOps Environment Using Python http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/fosdem//2015/lightning_talks/automated_devops_environment.mp4

Validate Your Gerrit Patches Automatically Using Magic Hooks http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/fosdem/2015/lightning_talks/gerrit_hooks.mp4


Upcoming oVirt Events:
 
* FOSSAsia, March 13-15, 2015, Singapore http://fossasia.org/
* oVirt Workshop, March 14, 2015, Singapore http://www.meetup.com/FOSSASIA-Singapore-Open-Technology-Meetup/events/220173964/

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Deep Dives and Technical Discussions
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Red Hat: Traditional virtualisation isn't going anywhere http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2396980/red-hat-traditional-virtualisation-isnt-going-anywhere

Trying out oVirt's Probabilistic Optimizer http://community.redhat.com/blog/2015/02/trying-out-ovirts-probabalistic-optimizer/

moVirt + bVNC @ tablet, phone and smart watch http://youtu.be/QnD9v70oefA

Import esxi VM to oVirt http://youtu.be/dHJv7zydZEM

VirtZine #48: Alternative Virtualization Platforms! http://youtu.be/ISWN6Frp9cg

oVirt and OpenStack network integración via Neutron SDN using OriginStack http://youtu.be/P0_s6JjFM1o

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Brian Proffitt

Community Liaison
oVirt
Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com
Phone: +1 574 383 9BKP
IRC: bkp @ OFTC