libvirt or ovirt

[Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:57:58AM +0100, Dave Neary wrote:
> On 02/12/2013 12:18 AM, Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden wrote:
> >Benefits of ovirt:
> >- Eating our own dogfood
> >- Scales beter when we want to have multiple nodes / HA features
> >- Has an extensive API
>
> I'm in favour of using oVirt. One of the things that I liked about
> AlterWay's offer was the idea of running oVirt project
> infrastructure on oVirt managed VMs.
>
> There are two choices inside the oVirt decision: do we want a
> separate oVirt manager, or are we happy having the host managed as a
> node in AlterWay's oVirt managed infrastructure? I personally am
> fine with using AlterWay's management console for the VMs and the
> host.

Can we use the standard oVirt API to manage our VMs? User level API is a
3.2 feature[1].

> >So libvirt would be a better choice if we want to set up fast, but may
> >limit us in the longer run. Also may use fewer resources, but in the
> >long run ovirt may allows us to build a bit of monitoring on top of the
> >API.
>
> Using AlterWay's oVirt set-up negates the argument about it being
> longer to set up too - everything is ready to go right now.

Agreed.

[1]: http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.2_release-management#Features