[rwmj]

The original product was called Solid ICE by a company called Qumranet. Red Hat acquired Qumranet in 2008 and as we do with all acquisitions, we started to liberate the proprietary code. It became oVirt in about 2010, and parallel to that is the downstream (but also fully open source) RHEV management product.

Interesting fact: The original product was written in C# and ran only on Windows. It was translated into Java, largely automatically at first with manual tidy ups, so it could run on Linux or Windows servers. (Well there are some Python and other bits too)

http://lpeer.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/switching-from-c-to-java...

http://lpeer.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/casing-moving-target.htm...

[rdtsc]

Thanks for explaining. That is a pretty cool history.

I am working with a bunch of C# code written for windows as well trying to make it work on Linux and went the Mono way. So far it worked pretty well (as long as no Desktop GUI forms are involved).