[Users] oVirt updates - August 13th 2013

[Itamar Heim]

(some updates I collected from past weeks)

General:
- great oVirt 3.3 test day with 80 bugs reported on various new 3.3
   features.
- oVirt 3.3 RC build soon to come.
- various deep dive sessions started on new 3.3 features[9]
   glance, neutron, power management and async tasks covered so far.


Deployment:
- Karli Sjöberg documented the process of going from oVirt-3.1 on
   Fedora to oVirt-3.2 on CentOS[3]

- René Koch announced version 1.2.1 of the Nagios monitoring plugin[6]

- Christophe Fergeau announced[1] a new spice-xpi 2.8.90 with windows
   support (and proxy support as well)

- Eyal Edri announced ovirt rpm's are available for Fedora 19[7]

- René van der Linden blogged about configuring IPA for oVirt[12]
   also has entries on all of this oVirt deployment[13]

Devel:
- gerrit was upgraded to gerrit 2.6. during the upgrade I forgot David
   Caro work on replacing the robots file so bing servers overloaded the
   server again.
   Juan was kind enough to send a patch to the gerrit project[2] to make
   the robots file configurable so we'll avoid this in the future (well,
   from gerrit 2.8).

- A Clojure library to provision virtual machines in ovirt[11]

Conferences/Talks:
- (upcoming) greg padget will cover new sla mechanism in ovirt[8] at
   LinuxCon/CloudOpen NA (September 17th, New Orleans)
- (upcoming) KvmForum and oVirt sessions at LinuxCon Europe in October

- (past) Udayendu Kar covered KVM and oVirt in an Engineering College
   via a few talks and hands-on[5]
- (past) Livnat Peer did an intro to ovirt session in Israel's open
   source conference August Penguin.


Related:
- Jon Benedict of NetApp published an update on their VSC beta[4]
- VMWare vCloud Automation Center 5.2 added support for RHEV 3.1[10]

Thanks,
    Itamar


[1] http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-August/015624.html
[2] https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/48411
[3] http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-August/015609.html
[4] http://captainkvm.com/2013/08/vsc-for-rhev-beta-is-live/
[5] http://udayendu.livejournal.com/671.html
[6] http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-July/015352.html
[7] http://resources.ovirt.org/releases/nightly/rpm/Fedora/19
[8] 
http://linuxconcloudopenna2013.sched.org/event/983e0cfa39a71d80e6f5000a9b553cf8?iframe=no&w=900&sidebar=yes&bg=no#.UgtfEE18SsA
[9] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.3_release_notes
[10] http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vcac-52-kvm-guide.pdf
[11] https://github.com/RedHatQE/ovirt.client
[12] 
https://www.rvanderlinden.net/wordpress/ovirt/administrator-portal/administrator-portal-authentication-via-ipa/
[13] https://www.rvanderlinden.net/wordpress/ovirt/