Giving oVirt a try

Ok, just downloaded the ovirt machine image.  My new workstation at work just happens to be a
Dell Optiplex 755 with a Core 2 with VT and I'm running Fedora 9 x86_64 with working KVM.

I followed the instructions, installed the oVirt machines.  Started it up... and then started
up the three demo nodes.  Pretty neat setup.  It is taking a while to understand what I have
and what to do with it but so far as a preview of the technology, it is pretty interesting.

The three nodes that the manager node... errr... manages... those boot via PXE from the
management node.  As it stands oVirt's machine storage has to be over NFS or iSCSI.  They show
how to create iSCSI targets on Fedora 9 but recommend using something like openfiler... which
they might include as a machine image in the next release.

Did you get all of that?  I'm not sure I did but I'm still reading.

BTW, oVirt has been around for a while now and it wasn't just released during the Red Hat
Summit this week... but it was a good time to release a press release about it, eh?

Also, it is my understanding that the "Emerging Technology Project" at Red Hat was broken up
some time ago with each person going to work in different but related areas... and most of the
development activity is being hosted at fedorahosted.org.  That's what I understood Jesse
Keating to say at the Fedora Birds of a Feather at the Linuxfest Northwest 2008 show.