oVirt For Linux

oVirt is an open source, cross-platform and freely distributed virtualization software designed from the ground up to allow users to easily manage virtual machines, as well as storage and virtualized networks on their computers. It is currently based on some of the most powerful virtualization technologies, KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) and libvirt.

The project features high availability, live migration, load balancing, Web-based management interface, support for FC, NFS, iSCSI, and local storage, enhanced security, scalability, and memory overcommit support. oVirt features an easy-to-use Web interface and it's powered by KVM on Linux. Users can install oVirt on top of their existing Linux installation or as a standalone Hypervisor.

Among other important features, we can mention a self-hosted engine iSCSI support, developer SDK (Software Development Kit) for ovirt-engine, written in the Python programming language, support for importing storage domains, Windows Guest Tools, support for migrating local DWH reports to remote hosts, support for separate DWH host, as well as support for separate reports host.

Originally developed by Red Hat Enterprise Linux, oVirt has been tailored for RHEL’s main derivatives, including CentOS, Scientific Linux and Fedora. It is recommended to use either the Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer 9 or later for both the web-based administration panel and the user portal. Please note that the software requires a computer with at least 4GB of RAM and 20GB free disk space, as well as a network storage (optional).

The oVirt software is also distributed as a standalone computer operating system, available for download as a bootable Live CD that lets anyone to test it on any computer platform without installing any software, and without installing a Linux kernel-based operating system. The Live CD is available for download for free from the project’s homepage or via Softpedia.