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Up and Running with oVirt 3.4
Last week, the oVirt Project delivered a new version of its open source virtualization management system, complete with a feature I’ve eagerly awaited for the past two years. The feature, called Hosted Engine, enables oVirt admins to host the system’s management server (aka the engine) on one of the virtualization hosts it manages. While oVirt…
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CentOS SIG and Variant Activity
The CentOS Project is increasing its efforts to empower contributors to produce and collaborate on new CentOS Variants, in which groups of contributors combine the CentOS core with newer or otherwise custom components to suit that group’s needs. Xen4CentOS, which combines CentOS 6 with components from the Xen project and the “longterm maintenance” release of…
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Cutting in the Middleman, with Comments
I blogged somewhat recently about my interest in, and inaction around, static site blogging, where you write blog posts, use an app to turn them into plain HTML, and then drop them somewhere on the web, with no shadow of potentially/eventually vulnerable PHP and MySQL cranking away to deliver dynamically what needn’t be dynamic. I…
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More AsciiDokken
A sort of funny thing happened when I was posting my last post, AsciiDokken, about how I’ve been writing and (not)blogging in AsciiDoc, and piping posts up into WordPress via blogpost.py. The dang post wouldn’t upload! I retried it, several times, and eventually it worked. I’m wondering if the issue I experienced has something to…
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oVirt 3.3, Glusterized
The All-in-One install I detailed in Up and Running with oVirt 3.3 includes everything you need to run virtual machines and get a feel for what oVirt can do, but the downside of the local storage domain type is that it limits you to that single All in One (AIO) node. You can shift your…
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AsciiDokken
It’s been a long time since I’ve blogged. My last oVirt 3.2 howto has been holding down the front page of this site for a lot of months, and now oVirt 3.3 is just around the corner. Top “haven’t blogged” excuses: Such are blogs, they go unupdated, and blog posts often start with “it’s been…
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Up and Running with oVirt 3.3
The oVirt Project is now putting the finishing touches on version 3.3 of its KVM-based virtualization management platform. The release will be feature-packed, including expanded support for Gluster storage, new integration points for OpenStack’s Neutron networking and Glance image services, and a raft of new extensibility and usability upgrades. oVirt 3.3 also sports an overhauled…
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Testing oVirt 3.3 with Nested KVM
We’re nearing the release of oVirt 3.3, and I’ve been testing out all the new features — and using oVirt to do it, courtesy of nested KVM. KVM takes advantage of virtualization-enabling hardware extensions that most recent processors provide. Nested KVM enables KVM hypervisors to make these extensions available to their guest instances. Nested KVM typically takes…
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OpenStack Summit 2013 report
Last week, I attended my first OpenStack Summit as part of a team from Red Hat helping to launch a new community distribution of the popular open source infrastructure as a service (IaaS) project. I came away from the Summit impressed with the size and velocity of OpenStack. The conference drew some 3000 users, developers,…
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Up and Running with oVirt, 3.2 Edition
I’ve written an updated version of this howto for oVirt 3.3 at the Red Hat Community blog. The latest version of the open source virtualization platform, oVirt, has arrived, which means it’s time for the third edition of my “running oVirt on a single machine” blog post. I’m delighted to report that this ought to…
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