[CentOS-virt] Joining the SIG - oVirt project

Tue Dec 16 16:04:18 UTC 2014
George Dunlap <dunlapg at umich.edu>

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo at redhat.com> 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