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oVirt and Fedora

If you have followed the oVirt project for a few releases you already know oVirt has struggled to keep the pace with the fast innovation cycles Fedora Project is following.  Back in September 2019 CentOS project launched CentOS Stream as a rolling preview of future RHEL kernels and features, providing an upstream development platform for ecosystem developers that sits between Fedora and RHEL. Since then the oVirt project tried to keep the software working on Fedora, CenOS Stream, and RHEL/CentOS but it became quickly evident the project lacked resources to keep the project running on three platforms. Further, our user […]

oVirt conference 2019 report

  oVirt conference 2019 is the 4th event organized in Italy by the oVirt Italia community, founded by Stefano Stagnaro with the help of Gianluca Cecchi, Simone Tiraboschi, and Sandro Bonazzola. The event was organized with the help of Extraordy, a Red Hat partner that delivers official Red Hat training in Italy. The conference has been sponsored and hosted by Oracle thanks to Simon Coter, Director of Product Management for Oracle Linux and Virtualization. The conference You can see the recordings of the morning sessions here:  Stefano introduced the conference and Simon Coter set expectations on the event neutrality […]

oVirt and CentOS Stream

Progress cannot be made without change. As technologists, we recognize this every day. Most of the time, these changes are iterative: progressive additions of features to projects like oVirt. Sometimes those changes are small, and sometimes not. And that’s, of course, just talking about our project. But one of the biggest strengths of our community’s software is that we are not alone, and because of that, changes to other projects have ripple effects that can affect our own, even in positive ways. This week, our collaborators in the CentOS Project have announced a change in the way their software is […]

Top 7 things to look forward to at oVirt Conference

oVirt Conference in Rome is around the corner and it’s time to plan for it. Here are the top 7 reasons why you should attend this outstanding open source infrastructure event: Discover all the new features of the last stable oVirt 4.3 release directly from Principal Software Engineers. Hear about what’s coming next in the community and the roadmap for the upcoming 4.4 release. Build your skills and expertise with Red Hat learning paths and certifications. Have a glimpse of the major advantages offered by Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager and Red Hat Virtualization commercial solutions based on oVirt code. Get […]