Features/oVirt

= oVirt =

Summary
The oVirt project is an open virtualization project.

The main components in the oVirt project are:
 * oVirt-engine
 * oVirt-engine-SDK
 * oVirt-engine-CLI
 * VDSM
 * oVirt-DWH
 * oVirt-reports
 * oVirt-guest-agent

Owners
The owners/packagers are:
 * For the oVirt-engine package:
 * Owner Name: Livnat Peer
 * Owner Email: [mailto:lpeer@redhat.com lpeer@redhat.com]
 * Packager Name: Ofer Scherieber,  Juan Hernández
 * Packager Email: [mailto:oschreib@redhat.com oschreib@redhat.com], [mailto:juan.hernandez@redhat.com juan.hernandez@redhat.com]


 * For the oVirt-engine-SDK and oVirt-engine-CLI packages:
 * Owner Name: Michael Pasternak
 * Owner Email: [mailto:mpastern@redhat.com mpastern@redhat.com]
 * Packager Name: Ofer Scherieber
 * Packager Email: [mailto:oschreib@redhat.com oschreib@redhat.com]


 * For the VDSM package:
 * Name: Federico Simoncelli
 * Email: [mailto:fsimonce@redhat.com fsimonce@redhat.com]
 * The VDSM package is already built on fedora, see http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=12944


 * For the oVirt-DWH and reports packages:
 * Owner Name: Yaniv Dary
 * Owner Email: [mailto:ydary@redhat.com ydary@redhat.com]
 * Packager Name: Ofer Scherieber
 * Packager Email: [mailto:oschreib@redhat.com oschreib@redhat.com]


 * For the oVirt-guest-agent package:
 * Name: Gal Hammer
 * Email: [mailto:ghammer@redhat.com ghammer@redhat.com]

Current status

 * Targeted release: Fedora 17
 * Last updated: 2012-04-23
 * packaging the engine core - see status in OVirtPackaging
 * Request review status:
 * oVirt-engine - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807017 - APPROVED
 * oVirt-engine-SDK - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771111 - APPROVED
 * oVirt-engine-CLI - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=791233 - APPROVED
 * oVirt-guest-agent - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=772608 - In Progress

Detailed Description
The oVirt Project is an open virtualization project providing a feature-rich, end to end, server virtualization management system with advanced capabilities for hosts and guests, including high availability, live migration, storage management, system scheduler, and more.

The oVirt Project is a comprehensive ecosystem of projects delivering a complete integrated platform on a well defined release schedule. These are components designed and tested to work together. In addition oVirt provides a crucial venue for user and developer cooperation, and is the first truly open and comprehensive data center virtualization management initiative.

Benefit to Fedora
Adding the oVirt project to Fedora will enable using it to build a stable and richful and large-scale virtualization environment. Combining oVirt with the current virtualization infrastructure in Fedora (libvirt + KVM) will attract users interested in constructing such a large-scale virtualization environment.

Scope
The scope of the feature includes a large-scale virtualization management system, including:
 * Data center management
 * Storage management
 * Networking management
 * VMs management (lifetime management, snapshots, migration, templating)
 * Administrator and User portal
 * User management
 * Snapshots
 * Data warehous and Reports infrastructure
 * CLI
 * SDK
 * Guest agent

How To Test
See the "Testing oVirt" section of the oVirt wiki for testing instructions.

User Experience
Users will have the ability to setup a complete, large-scale, end to end virtualization management environment.

Dependencies
The oVirt project depends on the following components:
 * Dependencies:
 * ovirt-guest-agent:
 * python
 * dbus-python
 * rpm-python
 * SysVinit
 * python-ethtool >= 0.4-1
 * udev >= 095-14.23
 * kernel > 2.6.18-238.5.0
 * usermode
 * selinux-policy >= 3.7.19-93.el6_1.3
 * pam-module requires pam
 * gdm-plugin requires gdm
 * kdm-plugin requires kdm
 * ovirt-sdk:
 * python
 * python-lxml
 * ovirt-cli:
 * python
 * ovirt-engine-sdk
 * pexpect
 * python-cli
 * ovirt-engine:
 * classpathx-mail
 * cracklib-python
 * hsqldb
 * jakarta-commons-codec
 * jakarta-commons-collections
 * jakarta-commons-configuration
 * jakarta-commons-discovery
 * jakarta-commons-jxpath
 * jakarta-commons-lang
 * jakarta-commons-logging
 * java-1.6.0-openjdk
 * log4j
 * ntp
 * openssl
 * Jboss AS7
 * policycoreutils-python
 * postgresql-contrib
 * postgresql-jdbc
 * postgresql-server
 * sos
 * vdsm-bootstrap
 * ovirt-dwh
 * python
 * java-1.6.0-sun
 * jakarta-commons-collections >= 3.2
 * jboss-serialization >= 1.0.3
 * gnu-trove >= 1.0.2
 * dom4j >= 1.6.1
 * postgresql-jdbc >= 8.4.701
 * postgresql-server >= 8.4.7
 * postgresql-contrib >= 8.4.7
 * logrotate
 * ovirt-reports
 * Jasper Server (see Jasper Server)

Contingency Plan
These are new packages to Fedora, so no contingency plan is required.

Documentation

 * Wiki Main Page
 * Technical Documentation

Release Notes
The oVirt packages consists of the oVirt-engine (which contains the engine, REST API, and web administration UI), VDSM, DWH, reports SDK, CLI and the oVirt-guest-agent.

Comments and Discussion

 * See Talk:Features/oVirt