On 10/27/2014 06:39 AM, Michael Still 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 >> <javascript:;>> wrote: >>> On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Roman Bogorodskiy < >> rbogorods...@mirantis.com <javascript:;>> 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).
I believe that the CI related things that would be needed would be: - solid devstack support - someone willing to step up and make sure that nodepool can provide freebsd images like ianw recently did with centos > 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. I agree with Mikal on this. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
