[Users] oVirt features

[Itamar Heim]

On 11/14/2011 10:55 AM, Doron Fediuck wrote:
> On Monday 14 November 2011 10:10:36 Dimitrije Zivkovic wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>     I got oVirt up and running on my Gentoo server. What I would like to
>> know is if there is some info page on current git version features of
>> oVirt? For example, I would like to know what type of storage is supported
>> as I could only see NFS type on webadmin. So am I doing something wrong or
>> am I just blind?  :)
>>     Also, if there is something I could help about related to Gentoo and
>> oVirt, let me know...
>>
> Hi Dimitrije.
> +1 on Gentoo ;)
>
> Specifically on storage, Engine supports also local storage, iscsi and FC.
> However not all of it is currently enabled in the UI, as it is still under
> heavy construction. You may handle these storage types using the RESTFul Api.

NFS and local storage should be available in the webadmin.
still need to close the GAP in UI for FC/iScsi (much more complex dialog...)
(REST API supports all)

>
> There are many tasks we could use some help with, and it depends on your skills.
> oVirt Engine is Java based. However there are other areas such as vdsm (python),
> RESTFul API and SDK, UI (GWT), packaging, etc... So let us know which parts you
> feel you can dive in, and we'll be able to route you ;)
>
> As for Gentoo (I tried that in the past); I have a working setup on Gentoo
> as well. In order to add it to the portage tree, we need a herd with some people
> to help us. We can start creating the first ebuilds, but from my experience
> we'll need more help to make the opensource JBoss build on Gentoo. That said
> we can start working with the binary deployment and evolve from there.
>
> Doron