I've not been part of the ovirt project for 9 years now and have left red hat in 2018, so this isn't insider talk, just pure speculation. However...

KubeVirt has been making a splash in the current height-of-fashion platform kubernetes and by extension in openshift. To me it only makes a lot of sense for red hat to converge their efforts on a single platform to rule them all. It's a learning curve, true, but what isn't?  try

Add to that the fact that nice technologies like mayastor are being developed for k8s, and you might start getting a bit of a light at the end of the tunnel, which just might not turn out to be an oncoming train.

In short, give it a try, worst case - you end up on proxmox.

On Sat, 5 Feb 2022, 22:28 Sketch, <ovirt@rednsx.org> wrote:
Interesting, I hadn't read about the planned migration from RHV to
OpenShift.  Based on what I've read here, it seems like 4.5 development is
well underway, so I doubt 4.4 will be the last release of oVirt.  That
would mean August is probably not the end of the line.

However, the removal of gluster appears to be slated for 4.5, so it's
possible it's intended as a final release to harmonize the feature between
RHV and OpenShift somewhat, to make migration to OpenShift easier?

On Sat, 5 Feb 2022, Thomas Hoberg wrote:

> Please have a look here:
> https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/rhev/
>
> Without a commercial product to pay the vast majority of the developers, there is just no chance oVirt can survive (unless you're ready to take over). RHV 4.4 full support ends this August and that very likely means that oVirt won't receive updates past July (judging by how things happened with 4.3).
>
> And those will be CI tested against the Stream Beta not EL8 including RHEL.
>
> Only with a RHV support contract ($) you will receive service until 2024 and with extended support ($$$) until 2026.
>
> oVirt is dead already. They have known since October. They should have told us last year.
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