[Ovirt-devel] What is oVirt?

[Andrew Cathrow]

On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 09:01 +0900, Atsushi SAKAI wrote:

> Hi, Chris
> 
> I have a question.
> If my understanding is correct, 
> the oVirt bottole neck of VM is oVirt hostimage(Managed Node).
> At this moment, oVirt host image is only supports KVM.
> So To run other vm(like Xen or OpenVZ), it just needs to create oVirt host image.


Right the oVirt management platform only works with the supplied KVM
based image.
We'll be adding support for RHEL 5's Xen implementation later. Other
platforms could be supported later but we need to build in more
hypervisor specific intelligence.



> 
> Is my understanding correct?
> Or does other limitation exists?
> 
> Thanks
> Atsushi SAKAI
> 
> 
> Chris Lalancette <clalance at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Jergen Dutch wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > Your image at:
> > > http://www.ovirt.org/documentation.html
> > > shows "kvm or xen" (not "openvz").
> > > 
> > > Other parts on the site, including the changelog, talk about openvz.
> > > 
> > > How does openvz support contain kvm?
> > 
> > Not at all.  Where do you see mention of openvz (specific link, please)?  The
> > only thing remotely related to OpenVZ is the fact that libvirt supports it, but
> > we don't use that functionality, and currently have no plans to.
> > 
> > Chris Lalancette
> > 
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