libvirt or ovirt

[Alexander Rydekull]

I don't see any reason to choose libvirt over oVirt, other then physical
resources, if we have them, go with oVirt.

If oVirt is that hard to setup, something is wrong, and it isnt that hard
to setup. So I'm not sure why this discussion exists :-)


On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Kiril Nesenko <kiril at redhat.com> wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Karsten 'quaid' Wade" <kwade at redhat.com>
> > To: infra at ovirt.org
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 6:19:12 PM
> > Subject: Re: libvirt or ovirt
> >
> > On 02/12/2013 01:57 AM, Dave Neary wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > >> 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.
> >
> > And doesn't stop us from putting up our own management console/oVirt
> > manager in the future, right? It should be simple to migrate VMs from
> > one manager to another, right?
> Correct. Migrating VM from one oVirt to another is quite simple.
> >
> > - Karsten
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