<div dir="ltr"><div>I don't see any reason to choose libvirt over oVirt, other then physical resources, if we have them, go with oVirt.<br><br></div>If
oVirt is that hard to setup, something is wrong, and it isnt that hard
to setup. So I'm not sure why this discussion exists :-)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Kiril Nesenko <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kiril@redhat.com" target="_blank">kiril@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im"><br>
----- Original Message -----<br>
> From: "Karsten 'quaid' Wade" <<a href="mailto:kwade@redhat.com">kwade@redhat.com</a>><br>
> To: <a href="mailto:infra@ovirt.org">infra@ovirt.org</a><br>
</div><div><div class="h5">> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 6:19:12 PM<br>
> Subject: Re: libvirt or ovirt<br>
><br>
> On 02/12/2013 01:57 AM, Dave Neary wrote:<br>
> > Hi,<br>
> ><br>
> > On 02/12/2013 12:18 AM, Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden wrote:<br>
> >> Benefits of ovirt:<br>
> >> - Eating our own dogfood<br>
> >> - Scales beter when we want to have multiple nodes / HA features<br>
> >> - Has an extensive API<br>
> ><br>
> > I'm in favour of using oVirt. One of the things that I liked about<br>
> > AlterWay's offer was the idea of running oVirt project<br>
> > infrastructure on<br>
> > oVirt managed VMs.<br>
> ><br>
> > There are two choices inside the oVirt decision: do we want a<br>
> > separate<br>
> > oVirt manager, or are we happy having the host managed as a node in<br>
> > AlterWay's oVirt managed infrastructure? I personally am fine with<br>
> > using<br>
> > AlterWay's management console for the VMs and the host.<br>
> ><br>
> >> So libvirt would be a better choice if we want to set up fast, but<br>
> >> may<br>
> >> limit us in the longer run. Also may use fewer resources, but in<br>
> >> the<br>
> >> long run ovirt may allows us to build a bit of monitoring on top<br>
> >> of the<br>
> >> API.<br>
> ><br>
> > Using AlterWay's oVirt set-up negates the argument about it being<br>
> > longer<br>
> > to set up too - everything is ready to go right now.<br>
><br>
> And doesn't stop us from putting up our own management console/oVirt<br>
> manager in the future, right? It should be simple to migrate VMs from<br>
> one manager to another, right?<br>
</div></div>Correct. Migrating VM from one oVirt to another is quite simple.<br>
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