Here it is … “Mastering KVM Virtualization ( Second Edition)” ..

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After block buster first edition (https://amzn.to/2TqNGLr) of `Mastering KVM Virtualization` here it is! We are really happy to announce the availability of our book about KVM virtualization since Oct 23rd of this year! We have been receiving many requests about updating the content to latest and also to add some topics of interest in general . We heard you! and finally its available ! Our effort to share knowledge on KVM virtualization was well received in the market with the first edition of this book. Since the release, lots of emails hit our inbox with the very positive feedback. It also kept us motivated for dedicating extra time on the second edition eventhough the experience tell us that, writing a book is tough especially when you are in a job and you have a family to take care! It need a bold mindset to devote time from the hours you get to relax outside your daily job. We have to admit that, we were assimilated to this with our first book and could manage to roll the second edition over. Hope this edition meet the requirement of knowing more about the KVM virtualization, its internal working mechanism, and how it can be integrated in different deployments and various products. Please let us know how we did on this attempt..

Also I would like to mention that, we have some free copies available for this edition if you are interested, hit me here with the comment if you would like to receive one.

Happy Learning!

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Announcing Open Source Virtualization India meetup group

We are glad to announce the Opensource Virtualization India meetup group!! Its been long time we are answering/discussing virt related queries via emails or irc, so the effort to bring virtualizers under one group.

This is a forum which discuss about various opensource Llinux virtualization technologies like Xen, KVM, Ovirt..and the friends libvirt, virt-manager..etc

If you would like to be part of it, please join http://www.meetup.com/open-virtualization-india/

We have scheduled 3 meetups ( Bangalore, Pune, Aurangabad) for near future, yet to decide the exact dates though.


Pune – Organizer: Anil Vettathu

Aurangabad – Organizer: Ashutosh Sudhakar Bhakare

Please let me know if you would like to volunteer for any of the meetups in your area.

** Welcome Virtualizers!! **

[ovirt] Find out hosts and clusters where vm is running. its status, ids, storage domain details in an ovirt dc with python/ovirt-sdk [part 3]

This program can be used to fetch information about : VMs Clusters Hosts Storage domains Data center.. in an ovirt dc. You will have “component” name, id, state along with other information. The program can be downloaded from github How-ever here it is without proper indentation. [terminal] #! /usr/bin/python # Author: Humble Chirammal # # … Read more

Ovirt : How to shutdown/stop or start virtual machines (VMs) in ovirt DC automatically using python/ovirt- sdk ? [Part 1]

Recently I got a request to provide a python program to shutdown all the vms in ovirt DC using python-sdk and also to start Vms in the DC. Below program is submitted as a quick solution.. Sharing it here hoping it will help you. To shutdown all the VMs in an Ovirt (www.ovirt.org) Data Center, … Read more

Ovirt : Convert physical/virtual systems to virtual using virt-p2v, virt-v2v then use it in ovirt DC

Here is the detailed process about virt-v2v and virt-p2v which can be used in an ovirt setup to migrate your physical and virtual systems to ovirt data center.!!! Below strings concludes about what is virt-v2v and virt-p2v, how it work, how it can be used for the conversion. It also includes how you can debug … Read more

Ovirt 3.3 released .. release notes, features.. etc

Ovirt announced its version 3.3 release today with lots of new features and updates.. !! OVirt is a KVM management application for datacenter management. It is the leading open source alternative to VMware vSphere. You can use oVirt to manage hundreds of KVM hypervisor nodes, running thousands of VMs. You can read its release announcement … Read more

A vdsm hook ( macbind) to attach given mac address to a different bridge or openvswitch bridge .

It seemed to be a requirement to attach a VM nic to a different bridge than the currently defined bridge. Also, ovirt is not compatible with openvswitch to pick those bridges and attach a VM nic. I have written a vdsm hook which will help you to achieve this. The functionality has been pushed to … Read more