What is the future of oVirt?

Hi everyone, I’m writing this post because I think many of us are asking the same questions these days. Over the past few months, we’ve seen some big changes in the open source virtualization world. Red Hat’s decision to discontinue RHV and slow down upstream oVirt development has understandably created a lot of uncertainty — especially for those of us running critical infrastructure on top of oVirt. In this changing landscape, I’m wondering: how is the oVirt project doing today? Is there still an active roadmap? Are there developers and organizations continuing to contribute? And most importantly — what can we as a community do to help ensure that oVirt remains a solid and well-maintained option in the years ahead? At the end of the day, many of us need to make decisions about how to evolve our IT environments, and having clarity on whether oVirt will continue to be a reliable choice is really important. I’d love to hear from anyone close to the project or involved in development. Any updates, insights, or thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks to everyone for your work and contributions to this community. Best regards, Giacomo Failla Head of Technology — Cheope SA

Hi Giacomo, We as team.blue are contributing actively to the oVirt project the last months. And we are keeping the project up and running, adding features etc. At this moment we don't really have a public roadmap, but we have some things internally we are working on or are on our roadmap. For example: - Make oVirt Hypervisor run on CentOS 10 / AlmaLinux 10 - Looking into Java 21 (Needed to make engine running on CentOS 10) - Getting all pipelines running on CentOS 10 - Fixing the system tests etc etc So a lot of things are moving :) Help is always wanted of course. We want to make a new release soon with all the changes from the last year. Feel free to also join our Matrix channel so we can discuss further if you want to contribute more to the project. Thanks Jean-LOuis On 7/06/2025 17:57, Giacomo Failla wrote:
Hi everyone, I’m writing this post because I think many of us are asking the same questions these days.
Over the past few months, we’ve seen some big changes in the open source virtualization world. Red Hat’s decision to discontinue RHV and slow down upstream oVirt development has understandably created a lot of uncertainty — especially for those of us running critical infrastructure on top of oVirt.
In this changing landscape, I’m wondering: how is the oVirt project doing today? Is there still an active roadmap? Are there developers and organizations continuing to contribute? And most importantly — what can we as a community do to help ensure that oVirt remains a solid and well-maintained option in the years ahead?
At the end of the day, many of us need to make decisions about how to evolve our IT environments, and having clarity on whether oVirt will continue to be a reliable choice is really important.
I’d love to hear from anyone close to the project or involved in development. Any updates, insights, or thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks to everyone for your work and contributions to this community.
Best regards, Giacomo Failla Head of Technology — Cheope SA _______________________________________________ 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/4HMJG4ORNYOJ3U...
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