Il giorno lun 29 mar 2021 alle ore 19:49 <eshwayri@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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