[Users] oVirt Updates - Special KVM Forum/oVirt edition

[Itamar Heim]

A great week at linuxcon/cloudopen/kvmforum/ovirt conference at 
Edinburgh, and some other nice feedback on oVirt, meriting a special 
edition of this update.
Feel free to chime in with your feedback as well.

It is sometimes hard to remember we only released oVirt 3.0 last year, 
and that it takes time to get traction.
For example, see slide 3 in the presentation i gave on oVirt Updates[1] 
to see the clear trend in adoption (via total users mailing list addresses).

Similarly, in Livnat's oVirt-intro session at CloudOpen, with ~75 people 
in the room, almost all raised their hand on her question "who knows/has 
oVirt".

We had a plethora of topics (same link as [1]), but i wanted to highlight:

SUSE support
During Livnat's talk, a question was raised wrt SUSE support.
Asking for more details, we got ~"I'm running oVirt in testing and RHEV 
in production. with 200 SUSE 10/11 servers. I just want the guest-agent 
to have their ip address in the gui".
So first of all, good to know SUSE runs as a guest without issues.
Also, the guest-agent itself is just a python script that should just 
work. Just some packaging is required, so we're looking to revamp this 
in build.opensuse.org, and hope some SUSE users will help us with 
closing and testing this one.

In related SUSE news, I just saw this posted "After looking into oVirt 
it looks absolutely fantastic. Might look into seeing if I can help with 
porting this to openSUSE. What kind of work is involved in the porting 
of the application like this?"
(discussion ongoing)

on PPC:
Leonardo from the Eldorado research center in Brazil gave a lecture on 
their work to add PPC support to oVirt. Paul Mackerras (KVM PPC 
developer) from IBM and Alexenader Graf attended and gave a lot of 
feedback, and potential interest from other PPC vendors, which should be 
hopefully mostly config level changes.

User Stories:
Keele university presented their path to oVirt. Always nice to hear how 
our project is used, and we actually asked them a lot of questions on 
why/how they use it the way they do. They also did a case study with 
Dave Neary, which i hope to see more from oVirt community members.

Also, always nice to hear: in an irc chat on #ovirt: "I looked at ovirt 
about 4 months ago and when I came back a few days ago I was blown away 
at how far it had come! The devs have done an awesome job".

All KVM Forum/oVirt sessions slides (and youtube's) should be available 
here[1]

Thanks,
    Itamar

[1] oVirt Updates session by Itamar Heim
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRCSQmAOh7yzgheq-emy1xA