On Tuesday, October 21, 2014, Roman Bogorodskiy <<a href="mailto:rbogorodskiy@mirantis.com">rbogorodskiy@mirantis.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 10:19 PM, Joe Gordon <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'joe.gordon0@gmail.com')">joe.gordon0@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Roman Bogorodskiy <<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'rbogorodskiy@mirantis.com')">rbogorodskiy@mirantis.com</a>> wrote:<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>[snip]</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
>> High level overview of what needs to be done:<br>
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>> - Nova<br>
>> * linux_net needs to be re-factored to allow to plug in FreeBSD<br>
>> support (that's what the spec linked above is about)<br>
>> * nova.virt.disk.mount needs to be extended to support FreeBSD's<br>
>> mdconfig(8) in a similar way to Linux's losetup<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>[snip]</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
> What about neutron? We are in the process of trying to deprecate nova-network, so any new thing needs to support neutron.<br>
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AFAIK, there's no defined migration plan yet, unless I missed that.<br>
Anyway, I don't see any blockers regarding an implementation of a driver<br>
similar to linuxbridge that'd work on FreeBSD.<br>
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Also, Semihalf guys are working on OpenContail/FreeBSD and<br>
Neutron/OpenContrial support, so that's an option as well.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I have no problem with supporting FreeBSD as a hypervisor operating system, especially if there is a solid team on the FreeBSD side that will commit to maintaining the changes required and adding the necessary CI<span style="font-size:15.5555562973022px"> (especially ensuring that when it breaks it gets fixed).</span></div><div><span style="font-size:15.5555562973022px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:15.5555562973022px">However, I see Neutron support as a firm requirement. We've spent a large amount of time getting closer and closer to deprecating nova-network. Despite opening it up for limited development again, I don't think we should be making the transition plan harder by introducing new features that don't work with Neutron.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:15.5555562973022px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:15.5555562973022px">Michael</span></div><br><br>-- <br>Rackspace Australia<br>