[Ovirt-devel] What is oVirt?

[Chris Lalancette]

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.
> 
> Is my understanding correct?
> Or does other limitation exists?

Yes, as Andrew said, KVM is the only supported platform right now.  Besides
making a new "managed node" image, you also need some changes to the WUI itself
(in particular, you need to add some smarts to taskomatic to make it choose a
managed node with the correct type of virtualization when starting and stopping
a guest).

That being said, it shouldn't be horribly difficult to implement, we just
haven't gotten around to it yet (but patches are welcome, as always :).

Chris Lalancette