Announcing oVirt ================ It is my pleasure to announce oVirt, the next step in open virtual machine management. oVirt is: * A small OS image that runs libvirt and hosts virtual machines * A Web-based virtual machine management console oVirt goals: * Empower virtual machine owners without giving up control of hardware * Automate virtual machine clustering, load balancing, and SLA maintenance * Simplify management of large numbers of machines * Work across platforms and architectures oVirt uses: * A kerberos/LDAP server for authentication and authorization (oVirt ships with FreeIPA) * DNS/DHCP services on the local LAN -- or provides them for oVirt hosts over a private network if desired * Libvirt for virtual machine management, storage management, and secure remote communication * collectd for stats gathering and monitoring * Rails for rapid, flexible development oVirt mailing list: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ovirt-devel oVirt IRC: irc.freenode.net/#ovirt oVirt website: http://ovirt.org We encourage anyone interested to download the source (git clone git://git.et.redhat.com/ovirt) or the prebuilt appliance (http://ovirt.org/download). Let us know what you think! Enjoy, --Hugh Brock hbrock(a)redhat.com