[ovirt-users] el6 vs el7

[Itamar Heim]

On 02/19/2015 04:00 AM, Nathanaël Blanchet wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm planning to migrate my ovirt el6 hosts to el7.
> Excepting that el6 will not be supported in next release of ovirt, is
> there a difference of performance between el7 and el6?
> I mean, are qemu or libvirt for example at the same level of
> performance/capabilities in el6 than in el7 (knowing that qemu-kvm 0.12
> is still backported on el6) ?
> I heard that el7.1 will support live merge, if true will el6.7 support
> it as well or the difference between them is there?

I'm not aware of plans to backport live merge to el6.7
el7.x is expected to have much newer versions of qemu/libvirt than .el6.