Re: [Users] Difference between RHEV and ovirt
----- Original Message -----
From: "patrick" <thunar24(a)gmail.com>
To: users(a)ovirt.org
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 12:14:00 PM
Subject: [Users] Difference between RHEV and ovirt
Hello all,
In our company we want to use either RHEV or oVirt in a production
environment. After testing RHEV for 30 days we are happy with the
stability and features. Can someone explain the difference between
RHEV and oVirt? Are there maybe some features just available in RHEV
like Windows guest drivers or someting like that?
I'm not sure if I get this right, but as oVirt is the upstream of
RHEV
does this means that new features like hot add nic etc. are first
available in oVirt and afterwards in RHEV. Does oVirt has any
drawbacks compared to RHEV other than support?
A good comparison would be Fedora and RHEL.
All the development work happens upstream in oVirt, so new features appear in and are
developed in oVirt.
At some regular interval RHEV will be built from a snapshot of oVirt. It's not as
simple as just taking the code as of Feb 13th and search/replace oVirt->RHEV
there's stabilization, testing, certification (Microsoft SVVP, WHQL), etc. Then on top
of that there's support, patches, security hotfixes, backports ...
oVirt will always be a leading edge platform ahead of RHEV (and anyone else who decides to
do a downstream distribution) so expect in most cases the oVirt release to be ahead of
RHEV but given the fast release cadence for the next couple of years I don't think the
feature gap will be significant.
Thanks in advance
Patrick van der Wiel
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