[ovirt-users] Re: future of oVirt after end of road for CentOS. (porting)
On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 3:37 PM rp.neuli--- via Users <users(a)ovirt.org> wrote:
Hello Masters,
I am very keen to use oVirt, but I was shocked and shaken to go ahead with oVirt after I
heard about end of road for CentOS. Therefore I looked for some answers which I could not
find online:
1. Will/Are you actively and vigorously porting:
a) oVirt Agent to other OS like ubuntu?
b) vdsm package to other OS like ubuntu, deb, openBSD etc.
2. While standalone oVirt Node can continue to have CentOS codebase under the hood. But
do you still want to migrate it to other OS? like openBSD?
Kindly advice.
In my view, oVirt in itself is a good and complete platform. It just need to continue
evolve as VM and container "OS"/hypervisor. At the same time 'agent' and
vdsm should be ported to as many OS as possible.
oVirt has been on CentOS Stream for a while. There are efforts by the
community to also use it on AlmaLinux and other RHEL rebuilds, but the
upstream oVirt project has been focused on CentOS Stream for many
years now:
https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/BBXNIQU5Z4B...
Also, CentOS hasn't reached "the end of the road". Quite obviously the
opposite, given how much more is going on in the CentOS Project in the
past two years than has occurred in the previous five.
Finally, porting to a BSD would be extremely difficult, since oVirt is
tied intricately with Linux KVM and BSDs are not Linux-based. There
have been attempts at porting oVirt to Debian, but none that have been
completed as far as I know.
I suggest you just go forward with oVirt with CentOS Stream. It's a
good combination and works very well.
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