Il giorno lun 29 mar 2021 alle ore 19:49 <eshwayri(a)gmail.com> ha scritto:
So I just finished migrating my 4.3 engine to 4.4 on a brand new
RHvEL8
install; next step is to upgrade the hosts. When I first started with
oVirt I used my own CentOS installs, but quickly decided that it made no
sense for my use case. Now I am looking at upgrading from 4.3 to 4.4 and
asking myself the same question. Up to now oVirt node has been using the
same exact OS I would have used +/- a few extra packages, but with the
traditional CentOS going away it really depends on what the new oVirt nodes
are going to be based on. I have a feeling the answer to that question is
CentOS Stream, which I don't feel comfortable with for this task. While I
am sure the developers will test the combination before releasing a new
node, they are still only testing whatever specific hardware combination
they have. There could be numerous weird bugs that will only show up in
certain situations. If Stream was as stable as an EL release, there
wouldn't be EL releases. I also appreciate the fa
ct that oVirt is itself a work in progress, but the stable branch is
considerably more like an EL release than a stream. Anyway, back to the
point. Just want to confirm the future for node is stream before I go
wasting time building my own EL8 hosts.
Hi, yes, the future of oVirt Node as built and tested within the oVirt
project is going to be CentOS Stream.
Specifically for 4.4.6 the intention is to provide two builds of oVIrt
Node: one based on CentOS Linux and one on CentOS Stream.
Please note that nothing will block any other CentOS-Like distribution to
build an oVirt Node based on their own repositories plus oVirt packages and
ship it.
If you will feel more comfortable running on a RHEL rebuild rather than on
CentOS Stream you can try getting the communities performing RHEL rebuilds
engaged.
Right now the resources of the oVirt project are not enough to keep
building and testing oVirt for multiple distributions.
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