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

Michal Skrivanek michal.skrivanek at redhat.com
Thu Sep 5 06:50:30 UTC 2013


On Sep 3, 2013, at 14:58 , alireza sadeh seighalan <seighalani at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi
> 
> in ovirt 3.2 there isnt ubuntu in the list. 3.3 is released?can i download it ?
> regards
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 09/03/2013 03:54 PM, alireza sadeh seighalan wrote:
> hi
> 
> ubuntu  should list in ther agent list. when you want to create vm's in
> the operating list drop down menu. please dont forget other OS's.
> regards
> 
> sorry, I'm still not sure i understand. we added ubuntu and sles to list of OSs in 3.3. can you please elaborate on what is missing?

Ubuntu and SLES in the list didn't make the 3.3 branch off. It should be easy enough to backport it to 3.3.1
As well as the guest agent .deb package. The support is there but not in the 3.3 RC build.

Thanks,
michal

> 
> thanks,
>    Itamar
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Itamar Heim <iheim at redhat.com
> <mailto:iheim at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>     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>
>         <mailto: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
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>                       | 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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