Hi,

I can’t recommend oVirt for that particular purpose (new deployment), its future doesn’t look shiny since Red Hat dropped it. We are slowly moving our oVirt infrastructure to Open Nebula.

Ok, this is true and false. True, Red Hat has dropped it. False, the future isn't shiny. The community is actively taking over the management of oVirt and there has been 1 release since Red Hat stopped and others will follow. So I think the future will be quite shiny :-)

Le 9 juin 2026 à 09:19, Kapetanakis Giannis <bilias@edu.physics.uoc.gr> a écrit :

OpenNebula seems nice, didn't know about it.

However from https://docs.opennebula.io/7.2/product/cluster_configuration/storage_system/... SAN-LVM - Enterprise edition (EE) only

Best thing that oVirt did was adding that very nice support for LVM on top of iSCSI/FC without clvm or any other "clustered" solution which WORKS and does the job.

That was also the kill feature that make me choose oVirt a long time ago.

Dear all, I want to give my support to the new developer team, since the job done is fantastic. We upgraded all our out to date releases to 4.5.7 and the platform is still rock solid, we rely on ovirt for our production environment and up until now we do not regret the decision. Things changed since redhat abadoned the project, but this does not mean we have to run away from ovirt. Adopt ovirt, you won't regret it. Regards, Andrea On 6/8/2026 9:24 AM, Jean-Louis Dupond via Users wrote:

What is the definition of a 'major release'? What do you expect from it?

In the beginning of the year, a new 4.5.7 release was pushed, with a lot of fixes and support for CentOS 10/Alma 10. Since then, a lot of changes/fixes were merged, and we plan to release a 4.5.8 in the coming months.

A new 'major' release is also on the roadmap, and we are working on that. The main change for the major release will be a upgraded Wildfly, which we need to migrate the whole codebase away from javax -> jakarta. So from a feature perspective, this is nothing important, but it's very important to be able to keep oVirt as a whole compatible with newer Java (libs) and keep it up-to-date in the future.

Your question about the hosted engine: Since 4.5.7, the hosted engine template is rewritten, and we build Alma 9 & 10 and CentOS 9 & 10 as the base for hosted-engine VM. So you can choose which OS you use for your hosted-engine.

'oVirt Node NG' is deprecated, and won't likely see new releases anymore. The whole system that created those ISO's is out-of-date, and would need a lot of changes to get it working again + to support CentOS 10/Alma 10. And as there is almost no advantage on those 'oVirt Node NG' ISO's above a basic CentOS or Alma install, we decided to deprecate the whole thing.

Hope this answers all your questions :)

Jean-Louis

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Just on the ovirt.org site? https://ovirt.org/release/4.5.7/ On 8/06/2026 15:07, mark.moore@L3Harris.com wrote:

Any release notes?

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Dear all,

I want to give my support to the new developer team, since the job done is fantastic.

We upgraded all our out to date releases to 4.5.7 and the platform is still rock solid, we rely on ovirt for our production environment and up until now we do not regret the decision.

Things changed since redhat abadoned the project, but this does not mean we have to run away from ovirt.

Adopt ovirt, you won't regret it.

Regards,

Andrea

On 6/8/2026 9:24 AM, Jean-Louis Dupond via Users wrote:

What is the definition of a 'major release'? What do you expect from it?

In the beginning of the year, a new 4.5.7 release was pushed, with a lot of fixes and support for CentOS 10/Alma 10. Since then, a lot of changes/fixes were merged, and we plan to release a 4.5.8 in the coming months.

A new 'major' release is also on the roadmap, and we are working on that. The main change for the major release will be a upgraded Wildfly, which we need to migrate the whole codebase away from javax -> jakarta. So from a feature perspective, this is nothing important, but it's very important to be able to keep oVirt as a whole compatible with newer Java (libs) and keep it up-to-date in the future.

Your question about the hosted engine: Since 4.5.7, the hosted engine template is rewritten, and we build Alma 9 & 10 and CentOS 9 & 10 as the base for hosted-engine VM. So you can choose which OS you use for your hosted-engine.

'oVirt Node NG' is deprecated, and won't likely see new releases anymore. The whole system that created those ISO's is out-of-date, and would need a lot of changes to get it working again + to support CentOS 10/Alma 10. And as there is almost no advantage on those 'oVirt Node NG' ISO's above a basic CentOS or Alma install, we decided to deprecate the whole thing.

Hope this answers all your questions :)

Jean-Louis

On 4/06/2026 21:50, Diggy Mc wrote:

Is there an ETA for the next major release of oVirt?  Has it entered beta testing yet?  Any hint as to what OS and version will be used for the hosted-engine?  Will there be Node ISOs released?  Just wondering so I can plan ahead.  We are planning on deploying a brand new infrastructure and then phase out our legacy infrastructure. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@ovirt.org Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/KP5FDANTAYUSVK...

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