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

[Sandro Bonazzola]

Il 20/08/2013 23:19, Itamar Heim ha scritto:
> 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
> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users


I think we should consider also to ensure compatibility with OVF 2.0.1 standard:
http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/envelope/2/dsp8023_2.0.xsd
Not sure about the actual compatibility level


-- 
Sandro Bonazzola
Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration.
See how it works at redhat.com