[ale] ovirt is rapidly losing it's charm

[James Taylor]

I've looked at that, but I believe it still uses the citrix xenserver vm disk type and xentools.
I don't want to have to keep dealing with compatibility issues I've run into with that.

By the way, the link to the red hat doc pointed me to what I needed to finally get a windows server installed into ovirt.'

I have one issue I haven't followed up on, and that is adding another nic to my management/production network.
It isn't editable from the ovirt manager.
Any suggestions?
-jt
 
 

James Taylor
678-697-9420
james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com



>>> Scott Plante via Ale <ale at ale.org> 5/7/2018 12:17 PM >>> 
To add to that list, there's now a(nother?) crowd-funded open source alternative to XenServer called XCP-NG. It uses the open source Xen but packages it as an install ISO like XenServer without the limitations added by Citrix. It's pretty new but seems to have potential. I haven't installed it yet though. 


https://xcp-ng.org/ 
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/78495858/xcp-ng 


It was initiated by the people behind Xen Orchestra, the web-based (partially?) open source XenServer admin tool. One of the most irritating things about XenServer is their GUI admin tools is Windows only, and the only Windows boxes we have are VMs on our XenServer, which can create a chicken-and-egg situation. This led me to use Xen Orchestra some years ago but I can do most of what I need command line now. 


https://xen-orchestra.com/ 


Scott 



----- Original Message -----

From: "Kyle Brieden via Ale" <ale at ale.org> 
To: "Allen Beddingfield" <allen at ua.edu>, "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org> 
Sent: Friday, May 4, 2018 3:51:56 PM 
Subject: Re: [ale] ovirt is rapidly losing it's charm 

I could never keep straight what XenProject vs XenServer vs Citrix Xen 
vs Xen was... Some of those may overlap. There's also 3 different xen 
tool chains... xe, xl, and xm. Keeping straight which was what and 
which I should be using documentation for was confusing. It's one of 
the things that ultimately drove my decision to switch to ProxMox.