[Openstack] about multi-node installation with vlan

2011-07-11 Thread tianyi wang
Hi all: When use multi-node installation with vlan mode, the vlan configuration is in switch or in nova control node? And what's the vlan configuration process? I read this article : http://dodeeric.louvrex.net/?p=225 begin In the VLAN network

[Openstack] VirtualBox support on OpenStack

2011-07-11 Thread karim.allah.ah...@gmail.com
Does OpenStack Currently supports VirtualBox ? I've taken a look at the code and I can see that there's currently no drivers for VirtualBox on the virt/ directory and the current libvirt driver doesn't support VirtualBox as well. I've searched the web a little bit and I can see this http://bazaar

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Jan Drake
First, y'all need to remember that it isn't just AWS... it's N systems that back-end OS API over time. Ewan, I understand your intent, but it is a bit myopic: 1) Done right, the only time I need native IDs is when I have a complex situation which needs debugging. It isn't the norm (or if it i

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Ewan Mellor
> 1) Done right, the only time I need native IDs is when I have a complex > situation which needs debugging. It isn't the norm (or if it is, we've > failed) -- so really I ONLY need native IDs when it's all gone pear shaped. Speak for yourself! I debug complex situations every day. Sure, I do

[Openstack] (no subject)

2011-07-11 Thread tianyi wang
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Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Soren Hansen
2011/7/11 Ewan Mellor : > No, not string vs guid.  Current AWS IDs are 32 bits.  Being a small key > space, this means that you either need to allocate them incrementally > (implying a distributed transaction across the incrementer) This is only a real problem if you insist on generating them in r

Re: [Openstack] XenAPI OpenStack Plugins

2011-07-11 Thread Soren Hansen
2011/7/11 Todd Deshane : > On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Soren Hansen wrote: >> 2011/7/7 Todd Deshane : >>> The Kronos audience will not use this RPM, but instead will want >>> Debian packages. So at that point, we could either extend the Makefile >>> and add Debian packaging information or alte

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Sandy Walsh
I'm still stewing on this but at first blush this seems like an artificial abstraction. What do we really gain from having another layer above the service api's? Can't they just live at the service api? For example: nova.compute.api:create_instance() vs. nova.business_layer:create_instance()

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Sandy Walsh
Ugh, sorry, burned again by outlook web. Let me continue ... I'm still stewing on this but at first blush this seems like an artificial abstraction. What do we really gain from having another layer above the service api's? Can't they just live at the service api? For example: nova.compute.api:

Re: [Openstack] about multi-node installation with vlan

2011-07-11 Thread Jeff Kramer
Alex, Only the private switch needs to support 802.1q, and you configure the name of the tags when you run nova-manage network create, by adding a fourth argument, usually a number that is your vlan tag. For each network you create in one command, the number you give it is iterated by one, so if

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Eric Day
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:27:16PM +0200, Soren Hansen wrote: > 2011/7/11 Ewan Mellor : > > No, not string vs guid.  Current AWS IDs are 32 bits.  Being a small key > > space, this means that you either need to allocate them incrementally > > (implying a distributed transaction across the increment

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Soren Hansen
2011/7/11 Eric Day : > On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:27:16PM +0200, Soren Hansen wrote: >> 2011/7/11 Ewan Mellor : >> > No, not string vs guid.  Current AWS IDs are 32 bits.  Being a small key >> > space, this means that you either need to allocate them incrementally >> > (implying a distributed trans

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Brian Schott
> 1) Done right, the only time I need native IDs is when I have a complex > situation which needs debugging. It isn't the norm (or if it is, we've > failed) -- so really I ONLY need native IDs when it's all gone pear shaped. As the human presentation interface, sure, but the *automated* contr

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Brian Schott
Perhaps. That sometimes happens when trying to make a very nuanced point :-). I spent a lot of time hacking at nova-compute and the schemas for the heterogeneous instance types blueprint and noticed a lot of EC2-isms buried down in the code. Even though I've been using the EC2 interface mostl

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Ed Leafe
On Jul 11, 2011, at 11:28 AM, Eric Day wrote: >> This is only a real problem if you insist on generating them in real >> time rather than pre-allocate them. Each compute node could have pool >> of thousands of ID's it could use as it pleased. That would still >> allow for millions of compute nodes

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Eric Day
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 06:31:14PM +0200, Soren Hansen wrote: > >> This is only a real problem if you insist on generating them in real > >> time rather than pre-allocate them. Each compute node could have pool > >> of thousands of ID's it could use as it pleased. That would still > >> allow for mi

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Brian Schott
Ed, Thanks for the succinct summary. On Jul 11, 2011, at 12:05 PM, Ed Leafe wrote: > If we decide to move to a full UUID design with EC2 API as a > first-class citizen, then we have the question of how to represent the > 32-character UUID in the 8-character EC2 ID format. Our choices th

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Sandy Walsh
How is nova-- any different than: ---- Where // (or some subset of them) are reserved/regulated? -S This email may include confidential information. If you received it in error, please delete it. ___ Mai

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Tim Bell
At the risk of making things more complicated, we should anticipate an eventual Cloud API standard which could be any solution from EC2/OpenStack/OCCI/... and a set of legacy interfaces for backwards compatibility. This, as far as I see, pushes us strongly towards the multiple APIs as a present

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Brian Schott
Ahhh.. OK. The namespace is embedded in the instance ID depending on the type, so it should be sufficient to: GET /servers/ Regardless, uuid is sufficient and globally unique. This doesn't consider authentication. I'd assumed that username and realm and the like had been handled by REST-based

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Eric Day
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 05:17:05PM +, Sandy Walsh wrote: > How is > > nova-- > > any different than: > > ---- > > Where // (or some subset of them) are reserved/regulated? Nothing, if -- is a full UUID. If we compare to swift,

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Brian Schott
Eric, I've heard this argument before, but I don't understand how can't be injected as well to cause collisions. UUIDs can't be trusted when user generated. As long as the UUIDs are generated consistently across all OpenStack deployments (using the same UUID type and consistent policy on an

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Sandy Walsh
+1 I think the work really lives with formalizing the contracts at the nova.[service].api level and pushing the discrepancies into the respective public API's. -S From: openstack-bounces+sandy.walsh=rackspace@lists.launchpad.net [openstack-bounces

Re: [Openstack] [Openstack-operators] Help: Instances don't start

2011-07-11 Thread Shang Wu
Hi Edier, Can you check the command: sudo kvm-ok And see if vt is enabled in the BIOS? I had similar issue before, and there might also be some logs in the nova-compute.log as well. Try search bios and see if u find anything there. Shang Wu Edier Zapata 於 2011/7/12 上午12:08 寫道: > Hi, > I i

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Eric Day
Hi Brian, I think there may be a disconnect somewhere, perhaps we have different deployments in mind or something. In my opinion, it seems we should take the fully distributed, multi-tentant route to allow peering of deployments. So whether we use UUIDs or not, the goal is to: * Have account leve

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Ed Leafe
On Jul 11, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Eric Day wrote: >> How is >> >> nova-- >> >> any different than: >> >> ---- >> >> Where // (or some subset of them) are reserved/regulated? > > Nothing, if -- is a full UUID. If we compare to > swift,

Re: [Openstack] XenAPI OpenStack Plugins

2011-07-11 Thread Todd Deshane
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 7:14 AM, Soren Hansen wrote: > 2011/7/11 Todd Deshane : >> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Soren Hansen wrote: >>> 2011/7/7 Todd Deshane : The Kronos audience will not use this RPM, but instead will want Debian packages. So at that point, we could either extend t

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Chris Behrens
On Jul 11, 2011, at 12:01 PM, Ed Leafe wrote: > On Jul 11, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Eric Day wrote: > >>> How is >>> >>> nova-- >>> >>> any different than: >>> >>> ---- >>> >>> Where // (or some subset of them) are reserved/regulated? >> >> Nothing, if D

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Sandy Walsh
Won't an IPv6 address do that by it's very nature? -S From: openstack-bounces+sandy.walsh=rackspace@lists.launchpad.net [openstack-bounces+sandy.walsh=rackspace@lists.launchpad.net] on behalf of Chris Behrens [chris.behr...@rackspace.com] Sent: M

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Chris Behrens
On Jul 11, 2011, at 12:37 PM, Ed Leafe wrote: > On Jul 11, 2011, at 3:24 PM, Chris Behrens wrote: > >>> It's a shame that the ipv6 proposal was never more fully considered. >>> That would handle the uniqueness, with the added benefit of providing >>> simple zone routing via DNS, with the e

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Eric Day
We did discuss using IPV6 addresses as IDs months ago (IRC and email), but I don't remember why we decided not to. It may have been due to current adoption. I think it was pvo who originally had the idea. -Eric On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 07:24:39PM +, Chris Behrens wrote: > > On Jul 11, 2011, a

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Ed Leafe
On Jul 11, 2011, at 3:24 PM, Chris Behrens wrote: >> It's a shame that the ipv6 proposal was never more fully considered. >> That would handle the uniqueness, with the added benefit of providing simple >> zone routing via DNS, with the exact same 128-bit/32 char size. > > I don't I remembe

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Chris Behrens
If you're referring to encoding zone information, yes it would. I was trying to ask more generally as well. IPv6 would be a very good solution, IMO. - Chris On Jul 11, 2011, at 12:47 PM, Sandy Walsh wrote: > Won't an IPv6 address do that by it's very nature? > > -S > > _

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Glen Campbell
I kind of like the IPv6 idea myself. How would it work with a service provider that, for example, assigns a /96 address for an instance? If the user can change the IP address, would that mean that the instance ID would change as well? Or should we just keep with the original /96 (::0) address?

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Ed Leafe
On Jul 11, 2011, at 4:03 PM, Glen Campbell wrote: > I kind of like the IPv6 idea myself. How would it work with a service > provider that, for example, assigns a /96 address for an instance? If the > user can change the IP address, would that mean that the instance ID would > change as well? Or sh

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Paul Voccio
I believe we discussed this in the December timeframe. I'm still a fan of the idea. On 7/11/11 2:37 PM, "Eric Day" wrote: >We did discuss using IPV6 addresses as IDs months ago (IRC and email), >but I don't remember why we decided not to. It may have been due to >current adoption. I think it wa

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Christopher MacGown
What happens when you've shared the primary IPv6 address of a VM with another VM? To which VM does the primary key point to? I think overloading the IPv6 address to also mean the primary key is probably a mistake that will cause serious trouble with network-as-a-service portability. -C On Mon,

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Ed Leafe
On Jul 11, 2011, at 4:21 PM, Christopher MacGown wrote: > What happens when you've shared the primary IPv6 address of a VM with another > VM? To which VM does the primary key point to? I think overloading the IPv6 > address to also mean the primary key is probably a mistake that will cause > se

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Ewan Mellor
> [Snip summary] > > The only question that needs to be considered is where do we move > from here? Do we accept the limitation that the EC2 API and any tool > which relies upon that will be only available for single-zone > deployments, and if you want distributed zones, you must use the OS >

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Ed Leafe
On Jul 11, 2011, at 6:19 PM, Ewan Mellor wrote: > Up to now, I have assumed that zones would be used as the construct that > isolated different service offerings, e.g. VMware vs XenServer or 10G > networking versus 1G, or whatever. Zones therefore play two roles: they give > you the architectu

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Soren Hansen
2011/7/11 Ed Leafe : >> What happens when you've shared the primary IPv6 address of a VM with >> another VM? To which VM does the primary key point to? I think overloading >> the IPv6 address to also mean the primary key is probably a mistake that >> will cause serious trouble with network-as-a-

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Soren Hansen
2011/7/11 Ed Leafe : > On Jul 11, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Eric Day wrote: > It's a shame that the ipv6 proposal was never more fully considered. That > would handle the uniqueness, with the added benefit of providing simple zone > routing via DNS, with the exact same 128-bit/32 char size. I can think

Re: [Openstack] VirtualBox support on OpenStack

2011-07-11 Thread Lorin Hochstein
Karim: I'm not aware of anybody currently working on this, other than that old branch that you linked to. I don't know know too much about VirtualBox, but since a libvirt VirtualBox driver exists, I suspect it would be straightforward to add support, it's just that nobody happens to be worki

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Soren Hansen
Den 11/07/2011 19.08 skrev "Brian Schott" : > On Jul 11, 2011, at 12:05 PM, Ed Leafe wrote: > > 2) Use the first 8 chars, and accept an occasional duplicate ID.  > +1 this will be incredibly rare, just return an API error if request is ambiguous > > 3) Use the first 8 chars, but add duplication ch

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Ed Leafe
On Jul 11, 2011, at 6:46 PM, Ed Leafe wrote: >> If so, then I would say that your proposed limitation above is not >> acceptable. We don't want a situation where tenants have to stop using the >> EC2 API as soon as their service provider wants to offer a rich set of >> offerings. > > Th

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Sandy Walsh
From: Ewan Mellor [ewan.mel...@eu.citrix.com] > If so, then I would say that your proposed limitation above is not > acceptable. We don't want a situation where tenants have to stop using the > EC2 API as soon as their service provider wants to offer a rich set of > offerings. Hmm, two concer

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread George Reese
I'd add a fairly fundamental rule of ID design is that ID should never, ever have any meaning except to serve as identifiers. The minute you tie them to IPv6 values, you are giving them meaning. On Jul 11, 2011, at 6:49 PM, Soren Hansen wrote: > 2011/7/11 Ed Leafe : >> On Jul 11, 2011, at 2:04

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Sandy Walsh
___ From: Soren Hansen [so...@linux2go.dk] > I can think of a number of reasons why using ipv6 addresses are a bad idea. Sorry for the red-herring on the IPv6 thing. I only mentioned it in terms of being able to use it for zone-routing. I wasn't proposing usi

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Ewan Mellor
> -Original Message- > From: Sandy Walsh [mailto:sandy.wa...@rackspace.com] > Sent: 11 July 2011 17:10 > To: Ewan Mellor; Ed Leafe; Eric Day > Cc: openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Subject: RE: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - > Is it worth the effort? > > From: Ewa

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Ewan Mellor
> -Original Message- > From: openstack-bounces+ewan.mellor=citrix@lists.launchpad.net > [mailto:openstack-bounces+ewan.mellor=citrix@lists.launchpad.net] > On Behalf Of Ed Leafe > Sent: 11 July 2011 16:39 > To: openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Subject: Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone inst

Re: [Openstack] nova-manage network modifications feedback request

2011-07-11 Thread Dan Wendlandt
Hi Jason, Thanks for sending this out. I like the idea of separating the notion of creating a network (L2 connectivity) from creating a subnet (L3 addressing) with nova-manage. This is inline with the Quantum work some of us are building to create L2 networking as a separate service ( http://www

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Mohammed Naser
Hello everyone, This is the first time that I post on the list so please accept my apologies if I come in "late" to the conversation. I understand that Rackspace does not intend to add an EC2 implementation, or rather that it's not of importance to them. However, this is something that's importa

[Openstack] Fwd: Bug#633600: nova: inadequate copyright file

2011-07-11 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi, Seems debian/copyright isn't correct and needs some refinement. I don't think that openwrt-x86-ext2.image and openwrt-x86-vmlinuz should be in the original sources at all. These are sourceless files, and cannot fit Debian at all. Thomas Original Message Subject: Bug#633600

Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort?

2011-07-11 Thread Vishvananda Ishaya
> > 2. Could we not have plain vanilla EC2 at the top-level zone and do all the > funky stuff under the hood, mapping EC2 artifacts to OS artifacts as needed? > If EC2 wants 8-character with a prefix, we can map it to our UUID's across > Zones, but with obvious limitations. If EC2 runs out of s