It's a wrap! #KubeConEU2025 is over

It's been a ride: my first maintainer talk, quite a lot of extremely interesting conversations and huge interest in #KubeVirt - also meeting colleagues and having conversations outside of work is very refreshing.

Thanks everyone who attended our talks and stopped by our Project Pavilion - it's been a real pleasure!

And if you have further questions about #KubeVirt, you can toot to @kubevirt or find us on kubevirt.bsky.social

If you're at #KubeCon this week, be sure to drop by the #KubeVirt stand in the afternoons at the #CNCF project pavilion: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/features-add-ons/project-engagement/#project-pavilion

We'd love to chat and we've got some embroidered swag to give you

Meet me eventually at the #kubevirt booth

A nice overview for getting started with #KubeVirt for VM management and how it integrates with #Ansible, as well as UIs such as #OKD and #Harvester
Thanks for sharing with us, Michael

https://developer.hpe.com/blog/management-paradigms-for-virtual-machines-running-on-kubernetes/

We are happy to announce the recent release of #KubeVirt v1.5.0!
And a big thank you to everyone who contributed, especially our hard-working team of reviewers/approvers.

Check out the highlights in our release blog: https://kubevirt.io/2025/KubeVirt-v1-5_release.html

Source: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/releases/tag/v1.5.0
Release Notes: https://kubevirt.io/user-guide/release_notes/#v150

Chaos monkey idea for #KubeVirt: an operator called "progenitor" that spins up a bunch of VMs named "dalek" to see if it can burn down the whole cluster.

OLF Conference starts today, for anyone in traveling distance of Columbus, Ohio. We are excited for RESF members Maxine Hayes and Anthony Navarro to speak at this event on Saturday, Nov 16. https://olfconference.org/ #rockyismy$home #kubevirt #rockyevents #ohiolinux @maxinehayes

A tip on short notice :
Wednesday, November 13
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Eastern

Webinar: Enablement of kubevirt on IBM Z and LinuxONE

Register here: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d27f5ab0-bb54-418d-b2cc-cec32cc8deca@fcf67057-50c9-4ad4-98f3-ffca64add9e9

Description: This session will cover the usage of Kubevirt for s390x architecture when running it on IBM Z and LinuxONE.

Aldin Setiawan, Cloud Engineer at Eranya Cloud will share insight on "Deep Dive #Kubevirt, Kubevirt the next gen of vm #IaaS?" at Open Tech Summit 2024 in Jakarta on November 25th - 26th.

Save your seat at https://eventyay.com/e/0e7340fb #OTS2024

I wrote up a quick blog with tricks on using kubevirt with k3s, cilium, and bridged networking.

https://blog.lane-fu.com/posts/2024/10/quick-hints-on-kubevirt-with-k3s-and-cilium/

Sometimes it's useful to go back to the basics (spending some quality time with QEMU/KVM and Libvirt this morning---part of my #KubeVirt journey).

OK #Kubevirt experts: why is the VM encapsulated in a Pod (I'm assuming to leverage CNI functionality), instead of just having the #Kubernetes control plane manage the hypervisor directly?

OMG messing with kubevirt multus on k3s and trying to get a bridged secondary network interface using macvtap (and even the classic bridge plugin). And the error messages are leading me to believe it's failing because of storage driver.

I "think" kubevirt is doing an in-place live migration as a way to bolt on the 2nd interface and my default k3s local storage driver only supports ReadWriteOnce.

Driving me crazy.

Explore #openSUSE #container images at https://registry.opensuse.org! Need #kubevirt/virt-handler? Get full details, tags and commands for your setup. Ideal for openSUSE #Linux users!

Are any of my fellow Mastos using on-prem #OpenShift virtualization ( #kubevirt ) to provide any scale of VDI-like desktop services to your users?

We were thinking of using HP Anyware as the agent and broker for some number of OCP Virtual machines in place of #VMware Horizon.

Any thoughts, gotchas, better ideas?

Thank you
#rhel

We're thinking of giving #KubeVirt a try for a proof-of-concept, using Rancher's #HarvesterHCI distribution as base OS so we don't have to build this all on our own.
But Harvester makes use of #Longhorn for its storage needs instead of #Ceph and the latest benchmarks of it that I could find from 2021 look, like it can't really compete with Ceph.

Has anyone seriously used it recently and can report on its stability and performance compared to Ceph?

I'm sure I have no idea what I'm doing, but Windows VMs run like sh¡t on kubevirt. Even after installing all the qemu guest tools.
#Kubernetes #Kubevirt #QEMU #Virtualization

TIL: Once you get Kubernetes Virtualization (kubevirt) running, it's not that hard to expose VM network ports to the outside world. I just used this command to expose NoMachine running on my debian VM on top of kubevirt.

virtctl expose vmi debian --name=debian-nomachine --port=4000 --type=NodePort