On Oct 27, 2013, at 22:31 , Itamar Heim <[email protected]> wrote: > A great week at linuxcon/cloudopen/kvmforum/ovirt conference at Edinburgh, > and some other nice feedback on oVirt, meriting a special edition of this > update.
There are recordings and slides for *all* the talks in ovirt/kvmforum tracks already, please check out http://www.ovirt.org/KVM_Forum_2013 for slides and youtube session recordings. Cloudopen videos are not yet released, but they should be professionally recorded, so worth a wait:) Thanks, michal > Feel free to chime in with your feedback as well. > > It is sometimes hard to remember we only released oVirt 3.0 last year, and > that it takes time to get traction. > For example, see slide 3 in the presentation i gave on oVirt Updates[1] to > see the clear trend in adoption (via total users mailing list addresses). > > Similarly, in Livnat's oVirt-intro session at CloudOpen, with ~75 people in > the room, almost all raised their hand on her question "who knows/has oVirt". > > We had a plethora of topics (same link as [1]), but i wanted to highlight: > > SUSE support > During Livnat's talk, a question was raised wrt SUSE support. > Asking for more details, we got ~"I'm running oVirt in testing and RHEV in > production. with 200 SUSE 10/11 servers. I just want the guest-agent to have > their ip address in the gui". > So first of all, good to know SUSE runs as a guest without issues. > Also, the guest-agent itself is just a python script that should just work. > Just some packaging is required, so we're looking to revamp this in > build.opensuse.org, and hope some SUSE users will help us with closing and > testing this one. > > In related SUSE news, I just saw this posted "After looking into oVirt it > looks absolutely fantastic. Might look into seeing if I can help with porting > this to openSUSE. What kind of work is involved in the porting of the > application like this?" > (discussion ongoing) > > on PPC: > Leonardo from the Eldorado research center in Brazil gave a lecture on their > work to add PPC support to oVirt. Paul Mackerras (KVM PPC developer) from IBM > and Alexenader Graf attended and gave a lot of feedback, and potential > interest from other PPC vendors, which should be hopefully mostly config > level changes. > > User Stories: > Keele university presented their path to oVirt. Always nice to hear how our > project is used, and we actually asked them a lot of questions on why/how > they use it the way they do. They also did a case study with Dave Neary, > which i hope to see more from oVirt community members. > > Also, always nice to hear: in an irc chat on #ovirt: "I looked at ovirt about > 4 months ago and when I came back a few days ago I was blown away at how far > it had come! The devs have done an awesome job". > > All KVM Forum/oVirt sessions slides (and youtube's) should be available > here[1] > > Thanks, > Itamar > > [1] oVirt Updates session by Itamar Heim > http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRCSQmAOh7yzgheq-emy1xA > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
