Projects

oVirt is a collection of projects which work together to provide a complete data center virtualization solution.

ovirt-engine

oVirt Engine allows you to configure your network, storage, nodes and images. oVirt Engine also provides a command line interface tool (ovirt-engine-cli) and a RESTful API (ovirt-engine-api), including a Python wrapper (ovirt-engine-python-sdk) which allow developers to integrate management functionality into shell scripts of third party applications.

VDSM

The Virtual Desktop and Server Management daemon runs on oVirt managed nodes, and allows oVirt to remotely deploy, start, stop and monitor virtual machines running on the node.

ovirt-node

oVirt Node is just enough operating system to run virtual machines. It is also possible to convert a standard Linux distribution into a node which can be managed by ovirt-engine by installing VDSM and other dependencies.

dwh and reports

The reports and data warehouse components for ovirt-engine are optional, and are packaged and developed separately.

More information on oVirt subprojects

Developer Documentation

• Install nightly snapshot
• Building oVirt engine
• Testing ovirt-engine patches with Lago
• Building oVirt Node
• Building VDSM
• Contributing to the Node project
• Submitting a patch with Gerrit
• The development process
• Release management
• Getting in contact with the oVirt community
• Becoming a maintainer
• oVirt architecture
• Building a custom user portal
• Building oVirt engine DWH
• oVirt Features

oVirt Architecture

oVirt Teams

• Integration
• Project Infrastructure
• Data Warehouse
• Docs
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• I18N
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• Network
• Node
• Release Engineering
• SLA
• Storage
• Spice
• Virt
• UX