Introducing oVirt

oVirt is a virtual data center manager. It manages virtual machines, hosts, storage, and virtualized networks. It provides a powerful web management interface. Virtual machines are managed using libvirt and vdsm (a host service that runs along with libvirt). The hypervisors use KVM to run the virtual machines.

Remember, just like KVM and SPICE, oVirt also came from Qumranet. It started as a closed source desktop virtualization manager developed on .NET and runs on Windows servers. When Red Hat acquired Qumranet, they open sourced the project and ported the code to Java and named the project as oVirt. oVirt is an upstream project for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV).

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oVirt is a huge product with hundreds of features. Covering them all in two chapters is not possible. What we did is, we identified the core features in oVirt and explained the backend. This should provide you with a strong basis in oVirt which will help you explore oVirt in detail.

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