The announcement below may well be of interest to people involved in KVM. oVirt is using libvirt as its mnagement API, and the current builds use Fedora 9 + KVM to get a cutting edge virtualization platform / technology in combination with cutting edge Linux kernels :-) If anyone's interested, there's mailing list / IRC details below...
Regards, Dan. ----- Forwarded message from "Hugh O. Brock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:04:56 -0500 > From: "Hugh O. Brock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [et-mgmt-tools] Announcing oVirt > > 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 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > et-mgmt-tools mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools > ----- End forwarded message ----- -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
