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On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 8:39 AM, Michael Still <mikal at stillhq.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 21, 2014, Roman Bogorodskiy <rbogorodskiy at mirantis.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 10:19 PM, Joe Gordon <joe.gordon0 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Roman Bogorodskiy
>> > <rbogorodskiy at mirantis.com> wrote:
>
>
> [snip]
>
>>
>> >> High level overview of what needs to be done:
>> >>
>> >>  - Nova
>> >>   * linux_net needs to be re-factored to allow to plug in FreeBSD
>> >>     support (that's what the spec linked above is about)
>> >>   * nova.virt.disk.mount needs to be extended to support FreeBSD's
>> >>     mdconfig(8) in a similar way to Linux's losetup
>
>
> [snip]
>
>>
>> > What about neutron? We are in the process of trying to deprecate
>> > nova-network, so any new thing needs to support neutron.
>>
>>
>> AFAIK, there's no defined migration plan yet, unless I missed that.
>> Anyway, I don't see any blockers regarding an implementation of a driver
>> similar to linuxbridge that'd work on FreeBSD.
>>
>> Also, Semihalf guys are working on OpenContail/FreeBSD and
>> Neutron/OpenContrial support, so that's an option as well.
>
>
> 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 (especially
> ensuring that when it breaks it gets fixed).
>
> 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.
>
+1000

During Juno we closed a huge amount of the gap, I agree with Michael's
sentiment above.

Thanks,
Kyle

> Michael
>
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