The most interesting session on Day 1 of the oVirt relaunch was about getting the recently open sourced RHEV-M ( now known as oVirt ) up and running on your Desktop. Right now this process is not very automated; it involves downloading and installing many packages, some from source and some using the Fedora yum package installer. Yum because currently the project is very Fedora centric but there was discussion about how to port it to other distros since SUSE and Canonical is also attending this workshop. Ironically the presenter who gave this talk demonstrated on a Gentoo distro so it is possible to run on another Linux distribution at this time.

If you're interested in getting it up and running right now, follow the instructions at the Building the Ovirt Engine page which gives step by step instructions.
For the list of talks scheduled during this workshop, see the ovirt Workshop wiki page .
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maven builds for oVirt
Saturday, November 5, 2011 - 12:18 Haydn SolomonHere's a tip. If you're seeing messages like "out of memory" during your maven builds, try some combination of the following
I ran into these problems and needed to add those settings/resources to complete maven builds. Initially I tried building on a 1GB ram virtual machine and that would hang on some some maven builds.
Not on ubuntu
Tuesday, December 27, 2011 - 15:34 src386 (not verified)Looks likes it's actually impossible to get it un under ubuntu. There are many problems with scripts for postgresql, I could no get over it.
Runs fine on Ubuntu
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 15:07 Ryan Davies (not verified)Took a long time to compile, but apepars to run fine on Ubuntu 11.10
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