Proposal to drop support for oVirt

It’s a lot of work and I see it as a waste of time at this point. We already have a mechanism to either install it or not (install foreman-ovirt or remove it). Building a plugin means setting up the whole gem, publishing it, doing packaging, think about the migration, doing regression testing.

Rather than forking the gem, why not get involved in oVirt development and do it proper?

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One of the oVirt developers was so kind to issue release 4.6.0. Currently waiting for upload to rubygems.org:face_holding_back_tears:

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I see we have ovirt-engine-sdk 4.6.0 in our repos for a while. Has someone tried this on our Foreman 3.10 EL9 builds or 3.11 RC? I wonder, whther there’s other Ruby 3 related issues.

Hello,
What is the status of ovirt supported by foreman ?

I just read satellite release note that says , I quote:
Provisioning on Red Hat Virtualization

The integration of Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) with Satellite was deprecated in 6.13. All the existing compute resources of RHV type will be removed and the hosts associated with RHV will be disconnected. The RHV provider will be removed in the Satellite 6.18 release.

Satellite 6.18 = foreman 3.14

and I’m not seeing this news in foreman release note.

The RFC for dropping it can be found at RFC: Deprecation and removal of oVirt Compute Resource, not sure how far the plans of ATIX to create a plugin for it are.

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thank you for the link

Satellite 6.17 (GA last week) is on 3.14. Sat 6.18 will be on 3.15/3.16

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Hi Guys, just stumbled upon this threat. If it is possible to keep it, I would vote to keep it. Simply because of the vmWare changed license models. We as much as other serious bigger companies use Oracle KVM ( RHVM) = oVirt with Foreman && Puppet for provisioning. Simular like @fraenki already mentions. Main reason is licensing from Oracle products which are only certified to run on this platform with CPU pinning. I heard lots of companies with vmware License / Oracle products are actually moving here. It would be a pitty if this would no more be supported and we could no longer continue provisioning and if Foreman can no longer be the all in one solution for our diverse provisioning solution.
Regards and thanks for all the good stuff so far.

oVirt support is still available, you just need to install the new plugin:

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