On Sun, 2013-09-08 at 18:03 -0400, Doron Fediuck wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "René Koch (ovido)" <r.k...@ovido.at> > > To: "Itamar Heim" <ih...@redhat.com> > > Cc: "ovirt-users" <users@ovirt.org> > > Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2013 11:31:57 AM > > Subject: Re: [Users] so, what do you want next in oVirt? > > > > Hi, > > > > Thanks for starting this thread again. > > > > > > > > On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 17:19 -0400, Itamar Heim wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > Great! > > > > > > > V Integrate Nagios/Zabbix monitoring - via a ui plugin > > > > > > Zabbix isn't working yet with my ui plugin (is there maybe another one > > which integrates Zabbix?) - but it will be available in a future > > release. > > Btw, there will be a new version of the monitoring ui plugin with new > > features available out at the end of this week... > > > > > > > V Highly Available engine - via hosted engine[2] > > > V Open vSwitch integration - via neutron integration > > > X Allow cloning VMs without template > > > > > > This is definitely one feature I would like to see. > > > > > > > ? Enable hypervisor upgrade/updates through engine[3] > > > > > > The next feature I would like to request. > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > Cool. Can this be done on oVirt-node as well or only on > > CentOS/RHEL/Fedora hosts? > > > > > > > X Integrate v2v into engine > > > > > > Vote for this again :) > > > > > > > ? 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 > > > > > > At the moment spice support is really a pain (especially on Windows as > > the SpiceX.cab is missing). Great to hear that spice support has > > improved and Chrome can be used as well! > > > > > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > ISO and export domains on FC/iSCSI would be good to have as well. > > > > > > > - 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 > > > > > > Good to hear that other Linux distributions will be added as well. > > > > > > > - 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) > > > > > > Additional features I would like to see are: > > - oVirt guest agent for Ubuntu/openSUSE/SLES/Debian * > > > > *Ubuntu is already available thanks to Zhou Zheng Sheng > > > > - Resource pools > > At the moment only Quotas are available (which is great, btw), but in > > some cases it's necessary to implement resource pools. E.g. Limit CPU, > > Memory and Network for group of test vms, but give full resources to > > production vms. Maybe this could be done with cgroups? > > So e.g. I don't want to give a compile machine a full cpu core, but only > > 1 core with 500MHz or limit the bandwith to e.g. 10Mbit/s. > > > > Hi René, > Due to time constraints, it did not make it into the 3.3 release, however > in master we already have network QoS allowing you to limit bandwidth for > vNICs. > Also, we managed to implement CPU shares which allows you to handle > priorities. > Both will be included in the next version, and hopefuly some more. > > So if you ever feel like taking a ride with the bleeding edge, you have both > network QoS and CPU shares waiting there.
Thanks a lot for the information! It's great to know that this is/will be available. > > > - Upload ISOs within the GUI to ISO domain > > > > - Use existing share for ISO domain > > When creating an ISO domain, oVirt creates it's own directory > > structure with IDs. It would be nice if an existing share could be used > > (e.g. an ISO share on NFS server which is used by other service, too) > > without creating the structure with IDs. I know that the IDs are needed > > internally but I think it should be possible to reuse an existing share. > > > > > > Last but not least I want to thank all contributors of this project for > > their great work so far! > > > > > > Regards, > > René > > > > > > > > > > > > > [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@ovirt.org > > > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Users mailing list > > Users@ovirt.org > > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users