libvirt or ovirt

[Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 02:01:28PM -0800, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
> On 02/13/2013 05:00 AM, Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 12:18:50AM +0100, Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden wrote:
> >> In the past we've talked about running libvirt or ovirt on alterway02.
> >> Now that we have the server access we should really decide. I want to
> >> reach an agreement before the next meeting (monday 18).
> >
> > I think we have sufficient input (thanks for that!) to make a short
> > summary of the thread.
> >
> > - There seems to be a very strong preference to go for oVirt.
> > - Lack of knowledge setting up shouldn't be a problem because we should
> >   be able to get plenty of help if needed.
> > - Resource wise we think we have enough and if not we'll find that out
> >   along the way.
> > - Dave suggested use alterways ovirt. Possible problem there is that the
> >   user level API was only added in 3.2 which is still beta and I think
> >   Alterway is still running 3.1. This could be a project in the future
> >   since oVirt to oVirt migrations should be easy.
> >
> > Can we conclude that we want to install oVirt on alterway02?
>
> +1
>
> > If so
> > there's some questions I do have:
> >
> > - Do we still want to put it on CentOS 6? It has received limited
> >   testing, but EL6 is (IMHO) easier to maintain than Fedora.
>
> I also like the idea of using what the oVirt userbase is most likely to run.
>
> > - Do we pick oVirt 3.1 or 3.2? Mike Burns said 3.2 would be the better
> >   choice because migration from 3.1 to 3.2 will not be easy. 3.1 would
> >   also mean running on F17, 3.2 on F18 (or maybe EL6).
>
> If we can do oVirt 3.2 on EL6 (CentOS, in this case), that sounds like
> the best combination.
>
> I like the idea of using our own software, and I like the idea of
> running as much as we can on a stable computing platform. We are picking
> from the Red Hat family of Linuxes because it's what the people here
> know and trust. I do hope one day to see a mix of Linuxes in the oVirt
> infrastructure.

And I think that's the conclusion of this thread. Thanks all.

Now to to spin up a VM to try out oVirt 3.2 on CentOS 6 and see if it
works.