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Testing ovirt-engine changes without a real cluster

by Martin Sivak – Monday 14 November

The ovirt-engine component of oVirt is the brain of oVirt and is responsible for managing attached systems; providing the webadmin UI and REST interfaces; and other core tasks. The process of setting up a real cluster on which to deploy the project is a time-consuming task that greatly increases patch turnaround time and can provide a significant barrier of entry to those wanting to contribute to the project.

Development Environment

There are couple of preparation steps you must take to create your development environment. I am using CentOS 7 as my development machine so I will use […]

by Martin Sivak – Monday 25 July

Before I start discussing the feature itself I have to explain a bit about the use cases that we were trying to solve.

Let us imagine you have a special piece of software with a node-licensing model that only cares about physical machines when counting the number of licenses needed. This specifically allows you to run that software in virtual machines, but you need to control the physical host on which the VMs are running.

The other case is basically related to hardware capabilities. Some NICs might be faster than others and you want […]