[Users] so, what do you want next in oVirt?

Itamar Heim iheim at redhat.com
Tue Sep 3 11:37:58 UTC 2013


On 09/03/2013 12:02 PM, alireza sadeh seighalan wrote:
> hi again
>
> ubuntu agent should be add in the list like vmware .

added in which list?

 > about installation
> i have to install ovirt packages by local repository and there is
> problem in this status and in adding  host to ovirt manager you need to
> install packages that need to internet .

why do you need internet? you just need the host to be configured with a 
repo containing the packages, which can be local as well?

> regards,
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com
> <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     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>
>         <mailto: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>
>              <mailto:Karli.Sjoberg at slu.se <mailto:Karli.Sjoberg at slu.se>>>
>              | To: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com
>         <mailto:iheim at redhat.com> <mailto:iheim at redhat.com
>         <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>>>
>              | Cc: users at ovirt.org <mailto:users at ovirt.org>
>         <mailto: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>
>         <mailto: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.
>              | _________________________________________________
>              | Users mailing list Users at ovirt.org
>         <mailto:Users at ovirt.org> <mailto:Users at ovirt.org
>         <mailto:Users at ovirt.org>>
>
>              | http://lists.ovirt.org/__mailman/listinfo/users
>         <http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users>
>              |
>              |
>              |       --
>              |
>              | Med Vänliga Hälsningar
>              |
>
>         ------------------------------__------------------------------__-------------------
>              | Karli Sjöberg
>              | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
>              | Box 7079 (Visiting Address Kronåsvägen 8)
>              | S-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
>              | Phone: +46-(0)18-67 15 66
>              | karli.sjoberg at slu.se <mailto:karli.sjoberg at slu.se>
>         <mailto:karli.sjoberg at slu.se <mailto:karli.sjoberg at slu.se>>
>              |
>              | _________________________________________________
>              | Users mailing list
>              | Users at ovirt.org <mailto:Users at ovirt.org>
>         <mailto:Users at ovirt.org <mailto:Users at ovirt.org>>
>
>              | http://lists.ovirt.org/__mailman/listinfo/users
>         <http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users>
>              |
>              _________________________________________________
>              Users mailing list
>         Users at ovirt.org <mailto:Users at ovirt.org> <mailto:Users at ovirt.org
>         <mailto:Users at ovirt.org>>
>
>         http://lists.ovirt.org/__mailman/listinfo/users
>         <http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users>
>
>
>
>
>         _________________________________________________
>         Users mailing list
>         Users at ovirt.org <mailto:Users at ovirt.org>
>         http://lists.ovirt.org/__mailman/listinfo/users
>         <http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users>
>
>
>




More information about the Users mailing list