Joining The SIG – OVirt Project

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Hi, I just joined the CentOS-virt call yesterday for the first time and it was a pleasure to meet you there. My name is Sandro Bonazzola[1] and I’m a member of the integration team and the release engineering manager for oVirt project[2].

oVirt is an open source alternative to VMware vSphere, and provides an excellent KVM management interface for multi-node virtualization. On each release we provide packages for Fedora and CentOS 6 and starting with the upcoming release 3.5.1 we’re going to provide packages also for CentOS 7.

We started looking at the CentOS virt SIG a few months ago and we finally decided to join. With me there is also David Caro (in CC), he’s member of the oVirt infra and CI team and he’s also in oVirt release engineering team.

As discussed in the call today, a first thing we’re looking at is getting live snapshot capability in qemu-kvm package provided within CentOS. Currently we’re delivering qemu-kvm-rhev within oVirt repositories, taking the src.rpm from CentOS repo and rebuilding it with the rhev flag for enabling the capability.

Another interesting point for us is providing a live image with oVirt pre-installed. We’re now composing oVirt Live[3] iso images using CentOS 6 packages as base also if original kickstart files came from Scientific Linux. We would like to make it fully CentOS based and hopefully move to CentOS 7.

We also provide oVirt Node[4] which is also based on CentOS 6 and is a small, robust operating system image using minimal resources while providing the ability to control virtual machines running upon it.

Both the spins can take advantage of having packages like qemu-kvm-rhev or in some cases glusterfs or libvirt or other dependencies updates as well as other projects that may rely on the CentOS virt SIG.

On the other hand, having latest oVirt RPMs within CentOS will allow CentOS and oVirt users to work with a single repository.

We’re now looking at CentOS site gathering info about the SIG, how to join and how to contribute.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Sbonazzo
[2] http://www.ovirt.org
[3] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_Live
[4] http://www.ovirt.org/Node

Thanks,

6 thoughts on - Joining The SIG – OVirt Project

  • So we had a chat about this at the Virt SIG meeting today, and here was our proposal:

    * Allow oVirt to join the Virt SIG and provide rebuilt qemu packages, as well as oVirt packages. (And possibly the above images as well.)

    * Sandro Bonazzola will be the maintainer, but David Caro will also have commit access / act as co-maintainer.

    If there are no objections in the next week we’ll consider this approved.

    -George

  • The current xen-4.4.1 testing repo in the koji CBS has libvirt-1.2.x in it. I also want to roll in a newer virt-manager / python-virtinst from somewhere (CentOS7 or maybe a fedora) to get better libxl support for Xen.

    I am currently just looking at that, but I wonder if you guys need a newer qemu, libvirt, etc for your EL6 work (if you plan on any EL6
    work). If so, we likely need to try to pick / standardize most of those dependent packages.

    Thanks, Johnny Hughes

  • Il 07/01/2015 18:04, Johnny Hughes ha scritto:

    Adding Michal and Dan to the discussion. As far as I know we’re fine with qemu version included in el6 and el7 but we need the rpms rebuilt with the rhevm flag enabled.