On 12/18/2014 02:59 AM, Sandro Bonazzola wrote: > Il 18/12/2014 11:29, Karanbir Singh ha scritto: >> On 16/12/14 16:04, George Dunlap wrote: >>> 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. >> >> >> Looks good to me, will they also be taking over the ovirt page on >> the wiki : http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/oVirt and update that to >> reflect centos.org repos ( once its there ). > > Sure When that time comes, here's the process for requesting wiki access: http://wiki.centos.org/Contribute#head-42b3d8e26400a106851a61aebe5c2cca54dd79e5 Regards, - Karsten -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade .^\ CentOS Doer of Stuff http://TheOpenSourceWay.org \ http://community.redhat.com @quaid (identi.ca/twitter/IRC) \v' gpg: AD0E0C41