[Users] From rhcs qemu to oVirt: suggestions?

[Itamar Heim]

On 11/28/2012 11:34 AM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> Hello,
> I currently have in place a CentOS 6.3 based rhcs cluster composed by
> threee nodes.
> There are several VMs configured as services in RHCS.
> I would like to migrate and test oVirt and get some suggestions.
> I originally planned to converto to F17 based oVirt 3.1 nodes, but now
> I see that there are builds for CentOS 6.3 too.
> So what are your suggestions? Can I post bugzillas and ask questions
> if I try CentOS 6 instead of F17?

you can, but since the .el6 rpms are maintained outside of the ovirt 
site/process, we don't always know if a patch is in a specific version, etc.

> Is this repo generally kept in sync with F17 based one?

that's a question for its maintainer (actually, i think it contains more 
backports than the f17 one)

> I would like then to setup a sort of "production ready" infra for a
> small non profit organization.
> Another question: what would be the best workflow to migrate these
> Qemu/KVM virtual machines I have to an oVirt based infra?
> Can I export in some OVF way and then import in oVirt?
> I see that irt-v2v in my CentOS 6 has libvirt and rhev as export methods.
> I don't know if rhev is suitable for oVirt too...

as rhev is the downstream of ovirt, usually they are close enough.

>
> Currently my installed versions on CentOS 6.3 systems are:
> virt-v2v-0.8.7-7.el6_3.x86_64
> gpxe-roms-qemu-0.9.7-6.9.el6.noarch
> libvirt-python-0.9.10-21.el6_3.6.x86_64
> libvirt-client-0.9.10-21.el6_3.6.x86_64
> qemu-img-0.12.1.2-2.295.el6_3.2.x86_64
> qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.295.el6_3.2.x86_64
> libvirt-0.9.10-21.el6_3.6.x86_64
> seabios-0.6.1.2-19.el6.x86_64
> sgabios-bin-0-0.3.20110621svn.el6.noarch
> vgabios-0.6b-3.6.el6.noarch
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Gianluca
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