By John Priest
Publication Date: 2026-09-18 12:00:00
The Oracle Linux and Oracle Virtualization team is pleased to announce support for the Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager 4.5 (ovirt-engine) on Oracle Linux 9. This update enables organizations to run both the Manager and Oracle Linux KVM compute hosts on Oracle Linux 9, helping organizations move Oracle Virtualization environments to a current version of Oracle Linux.
What’s New
Oracle Virtualization now supports Oracle Linux 9 Manager hosts, completing its transition to Oracle Linux 9 following earlier compute-host support.
Moving the solution to Oracle Linux 9 provides customers with the longer lifecycle timeline published in the Oracle Linux lifetime support policy. In addition, the move to Oracle Linux 9 updates several Manager components including PostgreSQL for the engine database and data warehouse, and Grafana for the Monitoring Portal. For customers that use the Self-Hosted Engine, an updated version of the engine appliance is available to deploy the Oracle Linux 9-based Manager.
Oracle Linux 9 KVM hosts run the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 8 (UEK 8), based on the Linux upstream 6.12 long-term support kernel. UEK 8 enables the KVM Two-Dimensional Paging MMU by default, which can improve page-fault performance for virtual machines with many virtual CPUs.
UEK 8 also includes memory-management and Huge Page handling improvements, while its device drivers are aligned with upstream Linux 6.12. Together with Oracle’s ongoing critical bug…
