On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 8:39 AM, Michael Still <mi...@stillhq.com> wrote: > On Tuesday, October 21, 2014, Roman Bogorodskiy <rbogorods...@mirantis.com> > wrote: >> >> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 10:19 PM, Joe Gordon <joe.gord...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Roman Bogorodskiy >> > <rbogorods...@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 > > > -- > Rackspace Australia > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
