Switch CentOS to Oracle Linux
by ntoxicator＠gmail.com
Hello,
Oracle Linux is offering CentOS users/dev/production servers to switch to Oracle Linux free of cost. They've produced a script to do this. Oracle also has their own Repo's for oVirt and use it for their own Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager [Re-branded oVirt].
I know Red Hat has announced moving away from RHV and focusing on OpenShift virtualization. They'll happen in 2022-forward. Are we already to assume oVirt will follow suite and migrate to OpenShift??
Questions:
Since announcement of CentOS going EOL and move to CentOS Stream... [Not doing it].
- Will the oVirt team continue to develop past 4.4 release as well as support Oracle Linux?
- Does Oracle really develop to their own ovirt repo and virtualization manager product
- What about supporting OpenSuSE or SLES?
- oVirt packages on RHEL? [RH announced they will allow RHEL installed on up to 16-hosts for FREE]
I am considering to test moving CentOS 7 development work-loads to Oracle Linux and use their oVirt repo.
Really like to know if oVirt developers plan to continue to build on what is there moving forward. Or will the project die? I use oVirt on production work-loads [same as others] with GREAT success. This is an absolute VMWare replacement.
3 years, 9 months
[CI] Wrong version of qemu-kvm in the CI on ppc64le
by Nir Soffer
We have tests that used to pass 2-3 weeks ago, but started to fail today
on ppc64le with this error:
qemu-kvm: Requested safe cache capability level not supported by
kvm, try appending -machine cap-cfpc=broken
Full log:
https://jenkins.ovirt.org/job/ovirt-imageio_standard-check-patch/3599//ar...
I can add -machine cap-cfpc=broken, but it looks like we are running the
wrong qemu version in CI:
17:31:08,513 DEBUG (MainThread) [qmp] Talking with qemu 4.2.0
We should use 5.1.0, available on Centos 8.3.2011:
$ dnf info qemu-kvm
...
Available Packages
Name : qemu-kvm
Epoch : 15
Version : 5.1.0
Release : 14.el8.1
Architecture : x86_64
Size : 126 k
Source : qemu-kvm-5.1.0-14.el8.1.src.rpm
Repository : ovirt-master-advanced-virtualization-testing
Is it possible that we don't have a build for ppc6le, or something is broken
in this build?
Since the tests used to pass, I don't think this is a repo issue.
Nir
3 years, 9 months
CentOS Stream support
by Michal Skrivanek
Hi all,
we would like to ask about interest in community about oVirt moving to CentOS Stream.
There were some requests before but it’s hard to see how many people would really like to see that.
With CentOS releases lagging behind RHEL for months it’s interesting to consider moving to CentOS Stream as it is much more up to date and allows us to fix bugs faster, with less workarounds and overhead for maintaining old code. E.g. our current integration tests do not really pass on CentOS 8.1 and we can’t really do much about that other than wait for more up to date packages. It would also bring us closer to make oVirt run smoothly on RHEL as that is also much closer to Stream than it is to outdated CentOS.
So..would you like us to support CentOS Stream?
We don’t really have capacity to run 3 different platforms, would you still want oVirt to support CentOS Stream if it means “less support” for regular CentOS?
There are some concerns about Stream being a bit less stable, do you share those concerns?
Thank you for your comments,
michal
3 years, 9 months
