[Users] oVirt December 2013 Updates

[Itamar Heim]

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

It has been quite a year for oVirt, and I'd like to take the opportunity 
and thank everyone in out community for making it a great year for the 
project.

- oVirt 3.3.2 was released
   http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.3.2_release_notes

- oVirt 3.4 is in the works

- Many oVirt sessions planned for Fosdem + oVirt booth - see you there!
   https://fosdem.org/2014/

- oVirt Contributor shirts
   Doron and Dave shipped some T-Shirts to prominently active community
   members to recognize their contribution (and thanks to Eldan for the
   graphics)
   https://twitter.com/hleclerc/status/414357959188430848
   https://twitter.com/ste_vincent/status/415502831702265856

- a new book: "Getting started with oVirt 3.3", written by community
   member Alexey Lesovsky:
   http://www.packtpub.com/getting-started-with-ovirt-3-3/book
   or via safaribooksonline: http://alturl.com/fm7ug

- An Austrian company called IT Novum migrated a 1100 machine data
   center to 100% open source, including oVirt for management (from
   VMware)
   They chronicled the migration with the Twitter tag
   #OpenSourceDataCenter
   https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OpenSourceDataCenter&src=typd

- James is trying to build a docker image for oVirt engine
   http://allthingsopen.com/2013/12/19/building-docker-images-on-fedora/

- Alon announced Experimental Gentoo support for ovirt-engine-3.3.1 is
   available:
   http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-November/018156.html
   http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OVirt

- iiordanov announced Android Spice Client available for beta testing
   http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-December/018434.html

- Some nice "how to" added to oVirt wiki by Nkesick (cybertimber2000)
 
http://www.ovirt.org/index.php?title=How_to_create_a_Windows_8_Virtual_Machine
 
http://www.ovirt.org/index.php?title=How_to_create_a_Windows_XP_Virtual_Machine
 
http://www.ovirt.org/index.php?title=How_to_create_a_Windows_7_Virtual_Machine
 
http://www.ovirt.org/index.php?title=How_to_create_a_Ubuntu_Virtual_Machine
 
http://www.ovirt.org/index.php?title=How_to_create_a_Fedora_Virtual_Machine

- just one of those nice emails...
   "Just wanted to express my deepest admiration for the progress of this
    project. ... my quest for upgrading from 3.1 to 3.2 ... This time
    around, ... the whole process _just worked_!
    All I can say is THANK YOU! Both to you developers of oVirt and a
    special thank you to dreyou for posting such a well-written manual.
    Thank you. Thank you. Thank you:)"
    http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-December/018341.html

Blogs:
- Up and Running with oVirt 3.3
   http://chenglimin.blog.51cto.com/8236854/1344083

- "oVirt 3.3.2 hackery on Fedora 19" blog post by bderzhavets
   http://alturl.com/68muq

- a new (dedicated?) ovirt blog
   http://izen.ghostpeppersrus.com/

- detailed steps for deploying/using oVirt (Japanese)
   http://alturl.com/ww25m

- Oved blogged about various ways to integrate with oVirt/RHEV
   (API, SDK, CLI, UI plugins, Scheduling API, VDSM Hooks)
   part 1 - http://alturl.com/4sytx
   part 2 - http://alturl.com/qye5f

- Use oVirt LiveCD in dual LAN network environment (Chinese)
   http://www.cnblogs.com/sztsian/p/3439873.html