On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. 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 _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
