KubeVirt Community Meeting 2025-10-22

[Andrew Burden]

2025-10-22 MINUTES

Recording: https://youtu.be/mNglra_yX9Y 

Attendees: Jan Schintag, Andrew Burden, , Felix Matouschek , brianmcarey, sgott, Ananya Banerjee C A Fillekes, Itamar Holder, Edward Haas, omisan, Aseef Imran, vladikr, fossedihelm, Olalekan Odukoya,fitandre(Andre Meyer Pflug WONDER)

Introductions:  Welcome everyone to the KubeVirt weekly community meeting

• Join the community:

• Add your organization to ADOPTERS.md

• Follow on Twitter

• Community page

• Join as a Github Project Member

• Follow on Mastodon

• Do we have any new members this week that would like to introduce themselves? 

Schedule Check-in: https://github.com/kubevirt/sig-release/blob/main/releases/v1.7/schedule.md
Upcoming CfP Check-in: https://github.com/kubevirt/community/wiki/Events

Agenda and Notes:

• KubeVirt Summit 2025

• 12 Sessions (1 no-show), representing 8 orgs & 1 independent, and 260 attendees (17% increase over last year)

• Recordings to be posted in the next week or so

• Code freeze next week (!)

• V1.8 unconference: Nov 4: https://groups.google.com/g/kubevirt-dev/c/EP4EWQ8lXcc 

• DRA meeting starting again next week in The Tuesday timeslot (1500 UTC)
  
  

Open Floor:

• FYI: Bug related to memory overcommit in KubeVirt 1.6.2: https://groups.google.com/g/kubevirt-dev/c/eNPpeO0oOa0 

• [fitandre] DRA (vGPU LIVE MIGRATION)

• ppc64le port is a possibility again [C A Fillekes]

Pull Requests that need attention: https://github.com/kubevirt/community/pulls & https://github.com/kubevirt/user-guide/pulls

• Introduce sig-architecture and sig-control-plane: https://github.com/kubevirt/community/pull/423 

• Introduce AI contribution policy: https://github.com/kubevirt/community/pull/415 

• feat(snapshot-restores): add documentation for volumeOwnershipPolicies: https://github.com/kubevirt/user-guide/pull/917 

• Update VM lifecycle and node assignment docs: deprecate spec.running, document tolerations live update: https://github.com/kubevirt/user-guide/pull/927 

Mailing list review: https://groups.google.com/g/kubevirt-dev

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Bug scrub: https://github.com/kubevirt/community/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue & https://github.com/kubevirt/user-guide/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue

(/triage {accepted | build-watcher | duplicate | needs-information | not-reproducible | unresolved})

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Flaky test fixes: https://github.com/pulls?q=label%3Akind%2Fflake+repo%3Akubevirt%2Fkubevirt 

• ffoss test: set timeout to ginkgo_tests: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/15813 

• sreeja: VMPool: Remove VMpool finalizer on VM when VirtualMachine orphan: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/15757 

• akalenyu: export tests: address proxy cert rotation: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/15755 

• lyarwood: tests: Increase VMI lifecycle startup timeout to help arm64 lanes: https://github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt/pull/15734 

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Zoom chat:
00:05:38 Olalekan Odukoya: First time here!

00:06:01 Orel M: Welcome!

00:06:26 Aseef Imran: First time here too :).

00:06:39 Olalekan Odukoya: Reacted to "Welcome!" with ❤️

00:07:21 Aseef Imran: Mic issues I think.

00:07:26 Aseef Imran: Another time!

00:08:03 Victor Toso: Welcome :)

00:08:59 xpivarc: The "robot" Andrew striking again

00:15:44 Orel M: When will the v1.8 schedule be released?

00:17:02 xpivarc: Orel, We based it on Kuberenetes schedule most of  the time. I think we could have some pre-draft soon

00:17:11 Orel M: Reacted to "Orel, We based it ..." with 👍

00:19:42 Andrew: https://github.com/kubevirt/sig-release/blob/main/releases/k8s-support-matrix.md

00:19:47 Orel M: Have to drop, thank you

00:26:09 Felix: Good that we recently removed the ppc64le bits 😅

00:27:24 Victor Toso: Reacted to "Good that we recen..." with 😬

00:27:30 xpivarc: Reacted to "Good that we recen..." with 😬

00:28:09 xpivarc: I believe last time the ppc64 required root, not sure the reason

00:29:15 xpivarc: Welcome Aseef!

00:29:20 xpivarc: or AI

00:29:32 Aseef Imran: Reacted to "or AI" with 🤣