[Users] What do you want to see in oVirt next?

Andrew Cathrow acathrow at redhat.com
Fri Jan 4 20:46:52 UTC 2013



----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Jaša" <djasa at redhat.com>
> To: "Bret Palsson" <bret at getjive.com>
> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Friday, January 4, 2013 10:20:22 AM
> Subject: Re: [Users] What do you want to see in oVirt next?
> 
> Bret Palsson píše v Pá 04. 01. 2013 v 08:05 -0700:
> > I'd like to see a built in VNC console that is java or a Spice java
> > console, something that runs cross platform, OS X, Windows, Linux
> > etc...
> 
> There are purely browser-based solutions for both: noVNC (mature
> AFAIK)
> and spice-html5 (still in beta quality, developers welcome). The
> problem

Beta quality is probably a little optimistic for spice-htm4

> with both is that they require websockets on server side which is not
> yet ready in qemu - spice-server implementation had to be reverted
> and

You can run a novnc server on another host to proxy it - similar to what Horizon does.


> will need a rewrite and libvncserver gained initial support just few
> months ago.
> 
> I'm sure that web-based consoles will be available in oVirt shortly
> after all layers below get the necessary features.
> 
> David
> 
> > 
> > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 7:04 AM, David Jaša <djasa at redhat.com>
> > wrote:
> >         Marcelo Barbosa píše v Pá 04. 01. 2013 v 11:46 -0200:
> >         > Dear Itamar,
> >         >
> >         >
> >         >    My dreams for oVirt 3.2:
> >         >
> >         >
> >         >    1) Packages CentOs 6.x (ovirt-engine,
> >         >    ovirt-guest-agent);
> >         >    2) Resize VM disk from GUI ovirt-engine;
> >         >    3) Spice for Google Chrome, this browser run in
> >         >    anywere
> >         O.S. and largest world use;
> >         
> >         
> >         spice-xpi 2.8 will support chrome/chromium but it will
> >         still
> >         be linux-only.
> >         
> >         David
> >         
> >         >    4) Show in Virtual Machines > General > ip/ip's from
> >         >    vm
> >         OR Virtual Machines > Network Interfaces > show ip;
> >         >    5) ISO upload from GUI ovirt-engine the best option;
> >         >    6) Monitoring enviroment oVirt to Zabbix and
> >         >    Nagios(total
> >         vms, mem clusters, and more...) example:
> >         https://github.com/dougsland/nagios-plugins-rhev
> >         >
> >         >
> >         >    I think this would oVirt the project to another level,
> >         much higher ...
> >         >
> >         >
> >         > Thanks.
> >         >
> >         > Marcelo Barbosa
> >         > mr.marcelo.barbosa at gmail.com
> >         >
> >         >
> >         > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Soeren Grunewald
> >         <soeren.grunewald at avionic-design.de> wrote:
> >         >         On 01/03/2013 07:04 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
> >         >                 On 01/03/2013 07:25 PM, Soeren Grunewald
> >         wrote:
> >         >                         On 01/03/2013 05:33 PM, Itamar
> >         >                         Heim
> >         wrote:
> >         >                                 On 01/03/2013 06:28 PM,
> >         Soeren Grunewald wrote:
> >         >                                         On 01/03/2013
> >         >                                         05:08
> >         PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
> >         >                                                 Hi
> >         >                                                 Everyone,
> >         >
> >         >                                                 as we
> >         >                                                 wrap
> >         oVirt 3.2, I wanted to check with oVirt users on what they
> >         >                                                 find
> >         good/useful in oVirt, and what they would like to see
> >         >
> >         improved/added in coming versions?
> >         >
> >         >                                         A nice feature
> >         >                                         would
> >         be to be able to migrate guests between AMD and
> >         >                                         Intel host
> >         >                                         machines.
> >         >                                         KVM should be
> >         >                                         able
> >         to support it [1]. I don't know if other hypervisors
> >         >                                         are able/can to
> >         support this. Because oVirt aims to support different
> >         >                                         hypervisors it
> >         >                                         might
> >         be problematic. But I think offline migration
> >         >                                         should be
> >         >                                         possible.
> >         >
> >         >                                 can you please elaborate
> >         what do you mean by offline migration?
> >         >
> >         >
> >         >                         With offline  migration, I means
> >         >                         the
> >         guest is not running while moving
> >         >                         it from one host to another.
> >         >
> >         >                         I have 2 host machines for
> >         >                         testing.
> >         One is running on a AMD Opteron and
> >         >                         the other Intel Xeon. Since I can
> >         not put both machines in the same
> >         >                         cluster, I have specified a
> >         >                         cluster
> >         called AMD (for the opteron) and
> >         >                         another called Intel (for the
> >         >                         xeon).
> >         >                         Now I would like to move a guest
> >         from the AMD machine to the Intel
> >         >                         machine. Since the CPU does not
> >         match I can't.
> >         >
> >         >                 I'm not aware that you can't.
> >         >
> >         >
> >         >         Ok, now is see my problem.
> >         >
> >         >
> >         >                 you should be able to move the VM from
> >         >                 one
> >         cluster to the other.
> >         >                 yes, it will see a different cpu model.
> >         >                 why
> >         is that an issue?
> >         >
> >         >
> >         >
> >         >         To move the guest I need to "edit" the guest and
> >         than I can change the cluster.
> >         >
> >         >         Thanks,
> >         >         Soeren
> >         >
> >         >
> >         >
> >         >
> >         >                         I assume the solution for this
> >         >                         could
> >         be a generic cluster definition.
> >         >                         Something with a limited/specific
> >         cpu set equal to the qemu
> >         >                         configuration "-cpu qemu32" or
> >         >                         "-cpu
> >         qemu64".
> >         >
> >         >
> >         >                         Regards,
> >         >                         Soeren
> >         >
> >         >                         [...]
> >         >
> >         >
> >         >
> >         >
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