[Users] so, what do you want next in oVirt?
Itamar Heim
iheim at redhat.com
Tue Sep 3 08:56:08 UTC 2013
On 09/03/2013 10:53 AM, alireza sadeh seighalan wrote:
> hi
>
> please add support from solaris , ubuntu and other OS's.
we've added in 3.3 ubuntu and suse as guest os's - i can't tell you if
they work or not.
you can now easily add on your own more OSs as well:
http://www.ovirt.org/OS_info
guest agent for ubuntu should be working.
> installation is a little hard specially in an evironment without
> internet.
can you please share more on the issues you faced?
thanks,
Itamar
> regards,
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Doron Fediuck <dfediuck at redhat.com
> <mailto:dfediuck at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> | From: "Karli Sjöberg" <Karli.Sjoberg at slu.se
> <mailto:Karli.Sjoberg at slu.se>>
> | To: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>>
> | Cc: users at ovirt.org <mailto:users at ovirt.org>, "Jan-Olov Persson"
> <jan-olov.persson at slu.se <mailto:jan-olov.persson at slu.se>>
> | Sent: Monday, September 2, 2013 10:42:52 AM
> | Subject: Re: [Users] so, what do you want next in oVirt?
> |
> | Hi,
> |
> | I would like to see a more advanced type of Power-Saving Cluster
> policy,
> | where an empty Host gets put into a sleep-mode, so that it draws
> as little
> | power as possible and can be awoken by engine when VM's starts to
> use more
> | resources.
> |
> | A typical scenario would be that all VM's are spread evenly over
> Hosts during
> | day-time, when customers are actively using their VM's. But then
> during
> | off-hours, VM's gets clumped up into maybe one or two Hosts, and
> the other
> | Hosts can be put to sleep to save energy, and then woken up in the
> morning
> | again.
> |
> | /Karli
> |
>
> Hi Karli,
> this should be achievable for you in 3.3 with some minor work on
> your side;
> In oVirt 3.3 we introduce the new scheduler, which allows you to run
> your own
> code when doing VM placement and load balancing.
>
> You can write your own load balancing logic replacing the built-in one,
> which will switch to power saving at a given time. Once a host has no
> running VMs, your balance logic can switch it into S3 state (sleep), and
> when needed or in a given time use wake-on-lan to resume all
> suspended hosts.
>
> If you want we can guide you through it post 3.3 release.
>
> Doron
>
> | tis 2013-08-20 klockan 17:19 -0400 skrev Itamar Heim:
> |
> |
> | earlier in the year we did a survey for feature requests /
> improvements
> | / etc.
> |
> | since a lot of things were added, and priorities usually change, I'd
> | like to ask again for "what do you need the most from oVirt / what are
> | your pain points" next?
> |
> | below[1] I've listed my understanding of what already went in from
> | previous survey requests (to various degrees of coverage).
> |
> | Thanks,
> | Itamar
> |
> | [1] from the top 12
> | V Allow disk resize
> | V Integrate Nagios/Zabbix monitoring - via a ui plugin
> | V Highly Available engine - via hosted engine[2]
> | V Open vSwitch integration - via neutron integration
> | X Allow cloning VMs without template
> | ? Enable hypervisor upgrade/updates through engine[3]
> | V Allow engine on an oVirt hosted VM - via hosted engine[2]
> | V Enable guest configuration (root password, SSH keys, network) via
> | guest agent in engine - via cloud-init
> | X Integrate v2v into engine
> | ? Bond/extend ovirtmgmt with a second network for HA/increased
> | bandwidth[4]
> | X Integrate scheduling of snapshots and VM export for backups in
> | engine[5]
> | V Spice – support Google Chrome - via mime based launch
> |
> |
> | Other items mentioned in previous survey which should be covered
> by now:
> | - Fix timeout when adding local host during all-in-one configuration
> | - Fix engine set-up when SELinux is disabled
> | - Provide packages for el6 (CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux)
> | - Allow multiple VMs to be deployed from the same template at the same
> | time
> | - ISO domains on local/GlusterS
> | - Show IP addresses in Virtual Machines->Network Interfaces
> | - OpenStack Quantum support (now called Neutron)
> | - noVNC support
> | - Support spice.html5 and websocket proxy
> | - Add other guest OSes to list
> | - Port oVirt guest agent to Ubuntu[6]
> | - SLA - Allow resource time-sharing
> | - Spice - Mac client (via mime based launch)
> | - Spice - port XPI plug-in to Windows (not sure this will happen, but
> | mime based launch allows using firefox now)
> | - Spice - client for Ubuntu/Debian (should be covered via mime based
> | launch)
> |
> |
> | [2] hosted engine is in active development, but not released yet.
> | [3] host update is supported, but not for general yum update.
> | [4] a lot of improvements were done in this space, but i'm not sure if
> | they cover this exact use case
> | [5] backup api is now being pushed to master, and orchestration of
> | backups should probably happen via 3rd part backup vendors?
> | [6] I'm not sure packaging exists yet, but ubuntu is covered for the
> | basic functionality of the guest agent.
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