oVirt Blog
We are delighted to announce the general availability of oVirt 4.2, as of December 19, 2017, for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4, CentOS Linux 7.4, or similar.
oVirt 4.2 is an altogether more powerful and flexible open source virtualization solution. The release is a major milestone for the project, encompassing over 1000 individual changes and a wide range of enhancements spanning storage, network, engine, user interface, and analytics.
What’s new in oVirt 4.2?
The big new features:
The Administration Portal has been redesigned using Patternfly, a widely adopted standard in web application design that promotes […]
Now oVirt features a simple way to prevent a host from scanning and then activating logical volumes that are not required directly by the host. In particular, the solution addresses logical volumes on shared storage managed by oVirt, and logical volumes created by a guest in oVirt raw volumes. Why is a solution required? Because scanning and activating other logical volumes may cause data corruption, slow boot, and other issues.
The solution is configuring an LVM filter on each host, which allows LVM on a host to scan only the logical volumes required directly by the host. To achieve […]
on November 8, oVirt 4.2 saw the introduction of an important behind-the-scenes enhancement.
The change is associated with the exchange of information between the engine and the VDSM. It addresses the issue of multiple abstraction layers, with each layer needing to convert its input into a suitably readable format in order to report to the next layer.
This change improves data communication between the engine and Libvirt – the tool that manages platform virtualization.
Background
Previously, the configuration file for a newly created virtual machine (VM) originated in the engine as a map or dictionary.
Then, […]
On October 31st, the oVirt project released version 4.2.0 Beta, available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4, CentOS Linux 7.4, or similar.
Since the release of oVirt 4.2.0 Alpha a month ago, a substantial number of stabilization fixes have been introduced.
What’s new in this release?
Support for LLDP, a protocol for network devices for advertising identity and capabilities to neighbors on a LAN. LLDP information can now be displayed in both the UI and via the API. The information gathered by the protocol can be used for better network configuration.
oVirt 4.2.0 Beta features […]
On behalf of oVirt and the Xen Project, we are excited to announce that the call for proposals is now open for the Virtualization & IaaS devroom at the
upcoming FOSDEM 2018.
This year will mark FOSDEM’s 18th anniversary as one of the longest-running free and open source software developer events, attracting thousands of
developers and users from all over the world. FOSDEM will take place in Brussels, Belgium, February 3 & 4, 2018.
Also coming up is DEVCOM, The 10th annual, free community conference for developers, admins, and users of free and open source Linux, JBoss technologies. DEVCONF will […]
Bringing high performance virtual machines to oVirt!
Introducing a new VM type in oVirt 4.2.0 Alpha. A newly added checkbox in the all-new Administration Portal delivers the highest possible virtual machine performance, very close to bare metal.
What does it do?
Some of the magic includes:
Enable Pass-Through Host CPU
Enable IO Threads, Num Of IO Threads = 1
Set the IO and Emulator threads pinning topology
For the full feature set, see the very detailed High Performance VM feature page
Count me in! How do I set it […]
On September 28, the oVirt project released version 4.2.0 Alpha, available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4, CentOS Linux 7.4, or similar.
This pre-release version should not be used in production, and is not feature complete.
oVirt is the open source virtualization solution that provides an awesome KVM management interface for multi-node virtualization. This maintenance version is super stable and there are some nice new features.
what’s new in oVirt 4.2.0?
Here’s an overview of the new main features:
The Administration Portal has been redesigned from scratch using Patternfly, a widely adopted standard in […]
The oVirt project is glad to announce that five talented students will be joining the oVirt community over the summer period, as part of the 2017 Google Summer of Code (GSoC) and Outreachy internship programs.
Both GSoC and Outreachy focus on getting more student developers interested in open source software development, as well as providing opportunities for talented people, underrepresented in the tech world, to gain valuable technology experience. The students will spend their summer break writing code, learning about open source development and documentation, and earning a stipend.
Joining us as part of GSoC are:
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On March 22, the oVirt project released version 4.1.1, available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3, CentOS Linux 7.3, or similar.
oVirt is the open source virtualization solution that provides an awesome KVM management interface for multi-node virtualization. This maintenance version is super stable and there are some nice new features.
So what’s new in oVirt 4.1.1?
Storage Team
LUNs can be removed from a block data domain, provided that there is enough free space on the other domain devices to contain the data stored on the LUNs being removed.
Support for NFS […]
