oVirt vs SolusVM
oVirt
ovirt.orgSolusVM
solusvm.comSide by side
| Figure | oVirt | SolusVM |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $1.77/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 5 |
| Spec score · Virtualization Management Software | 8.7 (#3) | 7.9 (#11) |
| Purpose | oVirt is a free open-source distributed virtualization solution designed to manage enterprise infrastructure. | SolusVM helps hosting providers and resellers manage servers from deployment through automation. |
| Virtualization | oVirt uses the KVM hypervisor and is built on community projects including libvirt, Gluster, PatternFly, and Ansible. | It manages KVM virtual machines and OpenVZ containers from one platform, and its feature page also lists Virtuozzo support. |
Plans
SolusVM
- Management Node$21.25 a year
- Compute Resources Micro$25.50 a year
- Compute Resources Mini$51 a year
- Compute Resources Unlimited$102 a year
- Management Node with Virtualization$102 a year
In their own words
oVirt
oVirt is a free, open-source distributed virtualization system for managing enterprise infrastructure. It uses the KVM hypervisor and builds on community projects including libvirt, Gluster, PatternFly, and Ansible. Deployment options include a self-hosted Engine and a standalone Engine; the project recommends the self-hosted option, which runs as a virtual machine on specialized hosts and is highly available without external HA management. Centralized storage holds virtual machine disks, ISO files, and snapshots, with options including NFS, GlusterFS, iSCSI, local storage, Fibre Channel, pNFS, and other POSIX-compliant filesystems. Automation and integration are available through Ansible roles and collections, Python, Java, and Ruby SDKs, and a REST API. The download page identifies version 4.5.7 as intended for production use, with Engine and host support for Enterprise Linux 9 or 10 and CentOS Stream 9 or 10. Installation is by command line. At least one additional host is required for advanced features such as migration and high availability. The project points users to community forums, IRC, and Matrix, and invites contributions.