[Users] What are the differences between ovirt and rhev

[Danishka Navin]

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Andrew Cathrow <acathrow at redhat.com> wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> > From: "Danishka Navin" <danishka at gmail.com>
> > To: users at ovirt.org
> > Sent: Thursday, September 6, 2012 4:13:31 AM
> > Subject: [Users] What are the differences between ovirt and rhev
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I want to practise virtulization with the use of rhev.
>
> > What are the differences if I use ovirt?
>
> The upstream and downstream releases don't match up in terms of version
> numbers and schedule.
> Everything happens upstream in oVirt but the actual release timing and
> stabilization will be different.
> For example, right now ovirt 3.1 is out and RHEV 3.1 is in beta.
> By the time RHEV GA's (before end of year) they'll be a number of
> differences - for example RHEV 3.1 will include storage live migration,
> which won't get picked up in an upstream release until 3.2, although the
> work is all happening upstream.
>
> There's a significant QA team working on testing RHEV while upstream gets
> community testing and of course there's the usual backporting of
> fixes/features that you'll be used to if you use RHEL.
>

yes.


> Overall it's a more polished and stable experience.
> There's ongoing discussions about how we get more polish and testing for
> the upstream releases - they'll never match what happens downstream in
> terms of testing and engineering resources but we do need to make the oVirt
> 3.2 release more polished than 3.1 was.
>
>
>
that means, I can use ovirt for learning/testing purpose with either Fedora
or CentOS asI do not have RHEV license.

Thanks for your useful explanation.


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