Dear David, do you have a link to that anouncement which you have referenced below "so the announcement of RHV's (commercial) demise was poor timing for me“
Cheers Timo > Am 02.04.2021 um 17:10 schrieb David White via Users <users@ovirt.org>: > > I'm replying to Thomas's thread below, but am creating a new subject so as > not to hijack the original thread. > > I'm sure that this topic has come up before. > > > I first joined this list last fall, when I began planning and testing with > oVirt, but as of the past few weeks, I'm paying closer attention to the > mailing list now that I'm actually using oVirt and am getting ready to deploy > to a production environment. > > I'll also try to jump in and help other people as time permits and as my > experience grow. > > I echo Thomas's concerns here. While I'm thankful for Red Hat's gesture to > allow people to use up to 16 Red Hat installs at no charge, I'm concerned > about the longevity of oVirt, now that Red Hat is no longer going to support > RHV going forward. > > What is the benefit to Red Hat / IBM of supporting this platform now that it > is no longer being commercialized as a Red Hat product? What is to prevent > Red Hat from pulling the plug on this project, similar to what happened to > CentOS 8? > > As a user of oVirt (4.5, installed on Red Hat 8.3), how can I and others help > to contribute to the project to ensure its longevity? Or should I really just > go find an alternative in the future? (I had been planning to use oVirt for a > while, and did some testing last fall, so the announcement of RHV's > (commercial) demise was poor timing for me, because I don't have time to > switch gears and change my plans to use something else, like Proxmox or > something. > > From what I've seen, this is a great product, and I guess I can understand > Red Hat's decision to pull the plug on the commercial project, now that > OpenShift supports full VMs. But my understanding is that OpenShift is a lot > more complicated and requires more resources. I really don't need a full > kubernetes environment. I just need a stable virtualization platform. > > Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Thursday, April 1, 2021 5:44 PM, Thomas Hoberg <tho...@hoberg.net> wrote: > >> I personally consider the fact that you gave up on 4.3/CentOS7 before CentOS >> 8 could have even been remotely reliable to run "a free open-source >> virtualization solution for your entire enterprise", a rather violent break >> of trust. >> > >> I understand Redhat's motivation with Python 2/3 etc., but users just don't. >> Please just try for a minute to view this from a user's perspective. >> > >> With CentOS 7 supported until 2024, we naturally expect the added value on >> top via oVirt to persist just as long. >> > >> And with CentOS 8 support lasting until the end of this year, oVirt 4.4 >> can't be considered "Petrus" or a rock to build on. >> > >> Most of us run oVirt simply because we are most interested in the VMs it >> runs (tenants paying rent). >> > >> We're not interested in keeping oVirt itself stable and from failing after >> any update to the house of cards. >> > >> And yes, by now I am sorry to have chosen oVirt at all, finding that 4.3 was >> abandonend before 4.4 or the CentOS 8 below was even stable and long before >> the base OS ran out of support. >> > >> To the users out there oVirt is a platform, a tool, not a means to itself. > > <publickey - dmwhite...@protonmail.com - > 0x320CD582.asc>_______________________________________________ > Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@ovirt.org > Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html > oVirt Code of Conduct: > https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ > List Archives: > https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/IBWLTSCR5OSXYEI6M4O2DVZUODRUWQZY/
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