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

[Baptiste AGASSE]

Hi all,

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> De: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>
> À: users at ovirt.org
> Envoyé: Mardi 20 Août 2013 23:19:16
> Objet: [Users] so, what do you want next in oVirt?
> 
> 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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Thanks for this thread !

- ISCSI EqualLogic SAN support or use standard iscsi tools/configuration
- SSO for webui and cli (IPA integration)
- PXE boot for nodes
- VMs dependencies on startup

Have a nice day.

Regards.

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Baptiste