Il giorno mar 20 apr 2021 alle ore 03:45 Thomas Hoberg <thomas@hoberg.net> ha scritto:

As long as CentOS was downstream of RHEL, it was a base so solid it might have been better than the oVirt node image, even if that was theoretically going through some full stack QA testing.

But with CentOS [Up]Stream you get beta quality for the base and then the various acquired parts that make up the oVirt house of cards on top.

If then the oVirt node OS were to go through full-stack QA, that could be quite the better choice.
But I'm more and more inclined to believe that the if is a false and any testing is just unit testing.

You're welcome to join oVirt QA initiative: https://www.ovirt.org/develop/projects/project-qa.html and improve oVirt quality :-)

I just want to note here that despite oVirt Node is moving to CentOS Stream, you can still install oVirt on RHEL, CentOS Linux and any other RHEL derivatives which doesn't break compatibility with RHEL. We have people who started trying oVirt on Alma Linux and pushing patches to support it (see Bug 1942023 - [RFE] host-deploy: Allow adding an AlmaLinux host)

and I would personally be happy to collaborate with any distribution willing to support oVirt.

Around Christmas VDO got dropped from a kernel update of CentOS8 (still non-stream) and my 4.4 oVirt HCI farm dropped dead, until I found out what happend.

I can't respond for CentOS QA, but you can get in touch with them https://wiki.centos.org/QaWiki

To me that was the final straw: I will phase oVirt out with CentOS7.
IBM may have a few more paying customers, but oVirt will lose the edge, the only place outside the cloud where RedHat can grow without being taxed by the cloud service providers.

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