== notes ==

* reprise initial presentation from workshop
* add in what happens between now and SCALE

== submission ==

Brief Description: 

  oVirt is both a feature-rich server virtualization management system
  with advanced capabilities for hosts and guests, and a new,
  vendor-neutral, upstream community around open virtualization.

Short Abstract: 

  This presentation is for for anyone who cares about Linux-based KVM
  virtualization. It is to give a high-level look at the new oVirt
  project. oVirt was restarted as an open sourcing of the RHEV
  management platform. The new project is releasing code from a
  community of interested people and vendors you recognize.

Long Abstract: 

  This presentation is for for anyone who cares about Linux-based KVM
  virtualization. It is to give a high-level look at the new oVirt
  project. oVirt was restarted as an open sourcing of the RHEV
  management platform. The new project is releasing code from a
  community of interested people and vendors you recognize. The oVirt
  Project is an open virtualization project providing a feature-rich
  server virtualization management system with advanced capabilities
  for hosts and guests, including high availability, live migration,
  storage management, system scheduler, and more. By open we mean open
  source & open governance, done right. The presentation will cover
  the history of the code, how and why the community was created, and
  the governance and methods of the community. In addition, all the
  current components of the oVirt project will be discussed at a
  high-level.

Message to the reviewers: 

  The oVirt project is moving quickly, with commitments for real
  developer resources from Canonical, Cisco, IBM, Intel, NetApp, Red
  Hat, and SuSe. In addition, we had several different groups come to
  the recent oVirt workshop: http://ovirt.org/workshop
  http://ovirt.org/wiki/Workshop_November_2011 By the time of SCALE
  10x, there is going to be at least one code release, and probably
  several. These releases are going to show a lot of spreading of
  oVirt to other distros, connections to other virtualization and
  cloud components, and stuff that I cannot even guess might
  happen. So I expect that the actual quality of the real talk will be
  pretty good because there will be so much time between now and the
  actual talk to grow beyond where we are right now - people still
  trying to understand all this Java code and architecture from the
  Red Hat engineers. :)

Audience:
  Everyone

Categories: 
  Application Developer
  Cloud and Virtualization
  DevOps Day
  ScaleU