Who says summertime is lazy and carefree? Not the members of the oVirt 
community, who are hard at work all year long! Here's what they've been working 
on in August!

--Community News--    

* oVirt finished participation in Google Summer of Code, with much success on 
the part of the students and mentors! Details to follow!

* oVirt had a great showing at LinuxCon/CloudOpen North America 
http://community.redhat.com/blog/2014/08/report-ovirt-at-linuxcon/

* oVirt 3.5 RC1 was released on August 5: 
http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.5_Release_Notes following a useful second test day 
in late July: http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.5_TestDay

* Reaching the community is job #1 for a successful open source website. Alissa 
Bonas discusses best practices at: 
https://opensource.com/business/14/8/open-source-project-front-door

* Red Hat Israel hosted its first DevOps meetup this month! Presentations can 
be found online now:
http://www.meetup.com/Open-Source-Israel/files/

* Learn more about the team behind OriginStack 
http://www.nimbusconcept.com/index-en.html

* Want to help oVirt development and are using LDAP integration, then you can 
help us test a new feature 
http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/devel/2014-August/008367.html

* China may be in need of a different glance end point (Chinese): 
http://mathslinux.org/?p=567

--HOWTOs and Tutorials--

* Integrating oVirt and Foreman to Empower your Data-Center by Yaniv Bronhaim 
at LinuxCon NA 2014 http://youtu.be/gozX891kYAY

* Download and install ManageIQ for oVirt (Caution: these are instructions for 
the anand release candidate. Things 
may be unstable, and may break. If you're looking for adventure, please proceed 
at http://manageiq.org/download/ovirt/)

* A howto manual on the deployment and use of oVirt and Gluster (Chinese) 
https://inthecloud.readthedocs.org/zh_CN/latest/

* FileCloud's Introduction to Top Open Source Virtualization Tools 
http://www.getfilecloud.com/blog/2014/08/introduction-to-top-open-source-virtualization-tools/

* oVirt 3.5: Snapshots Overview http://youtu.be/10z7tqbTt5Q

* Learn how to migrate VMs/templates between data centers with detach/attach of 
storage domain in oVirt 3.5: 
http://www.ovirt.org/Features/ImportUnregisteredEntities

* Discover how the kdump mechanism is integrated into oVirt 3.5 in this Google 
Hangout hosted by Martin Penina:
http://youtu.be/RAGV_za_Qvw

* oVirt 3.5 will have much more robust storage domain management,  as you can 
see at:
http://www.ovirt.org/Features/ImportStorageDomain#Work_flow_for_Import_File_Storage_Domain_-_UI_flow

* Expediting Infrastructure IV: Working with oVirt (Spanish) 
http://blog.sotoca.es/2014/08/agilizando-la-infraestructura-iv.html

* Roozbeh Shafiee posted an intro to #oVirt and #RHEV (Farsi) 
http://roozbehshafiee.com/virtualization/enterprise-virtualization-in-linux.rsh

* Piotr Kliczewski hosted a hangout this month on working with the Jsonrpc 
Protocol over STOMP in oVirt. Check out the video at:
http://youtu.be/0FwM2oeb788

* Jason Williams walks readers through a useful home server setup that features 
oVirt:  
http://www.jason.jnf.me/blog/post/95829721478/home-server-setup-useful-links

* Learn more about the new Neutron Virtual Appliance http://youtu.be/naLFSFwHI94

* Ben Draper walks through installing hosted engine in 3.4: 
https://xrsa.net/2014/08/13/installing-ovirt-3-4-hosted-engine/

* How to change host name in oVirt 3.3 (Japanese): 
http://akira-junkbox.blogspot.co.il/2014/08/ovirt.html

* The Korea oVirt User Group on SPM's 3.6 decommissioning: 
http://ovirtkorea.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/ovirt-3-6%EC%97%90%EC%84%9C-spm-%EC%97%AD%ED%95%A0%EC%9D%B4-%EC%82%AC%EB%9D%BC%EC%A7%88-%EC%98%88%EC%A0%95%EC%9E%85%EB%8B%88%EB%8B%A4/

* Running virt-sysprep against a RHEV virtual machine running Red Hat 
Enterprise Linux 
(http://www.outsidaz.org/blog/2013/11/07/running-virt-sysprep-against-a-rhev-virtual-machine-running-red-hat-enterprise-linux/)

--Events and Activities--

* oVirt will be featured this September at the inaugural launch of Fossetcon on 
Sept. 11-13 http://fossetcon.org/2014/session/open-source-virtualization-ovirt

* Going to be in Duesseldorf in October? Come learn about Smart VM Scheduling 
in an oVirt Cluster from Martin Sivak at LinuxCon EU: http://sched.co/1BnNQ6M

* Another LinuxCon EU presentation to check out Tomas Jelinek's talk on moVirt 
- Mobile Application for Monitoring of oVirt Datacenter: http://sched.co/Xn6cp2


-- 
Brian Proffitt

oVirt Community Manager
Project Atomic Community Lead
Open Source and Standards, Red Hat - http://community.redhat.com
Phone: +1 574 383 9BKP
IRC: bkp @ OFTC
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