Il 07/01/2015 18:04, Johnny Hughes ha scritto: > On 12/03/2014 01:30 AM, Sandro Bonazzola 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. >> >> [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 > > 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. 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. > > Thanks, > Johnny Hughes > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-virt mailing list > CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
