[rhos-list] Folsom - any chance ?

[Jonathan Mills]

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On 11/16/2012 04:57 PM, Perry Myers wrote:
> On 11/16/2012 04:49 AM, Daniel Dumitriu wrote:
>>
>> Everything that the guide suggested, actually works.
>> Surprisingly well, actually.
>>
>> I did not try to be original, up to now, because my purpose was to
>> evaluate/validate the solution "as is".
>>
>> Well, that's not entirely true  - I scripted the whole build procedure
>> to the point where it takes less than 20 minutes from a "jeos" to all
>> the components installed on a single node.
>> (Of course, I had to script the tear-down procedure, as well).
>> Also, for the "Volumes", I used a real, permanent "nova-volumes" LVM
>> volume group as backing storage.
>>
>> I believe I went through the procedure at least 20 times, with small
>> variations, scripting everything up to creating a set of VMs, assigning
>> floating IPs and attaching volumes.
>>
>>
>> Now, I need to ask: is Folsom going to come anytime soon ?
>
> Just released :)
>
>> And, related, are we going to see a proper integration of OVS with libvirt ?
>> Of course, I am interested in the implementations for RHEL and not so
>> much those on Fedora 17+. Frankly, if there are any major components
>> missing, those would be (in my opinion) OVS (from Quantum) and the
>> shared storage (probably Cinder).
>
> Cinder is included in Folsom Preview from the start
>
> OVS support in Quantum won't come until RHEL 6 kernel supports it, which
> should be in the very near future.  So look for updates soon for
> openvswitch userspace packages and quantum OVS sub-packages.

We are running OVS from git -- I think the 1.90.9 release.  The git tree 
has instructions for how to compile into an RPM.  It seems to work just 
fine for us.  We run OVS + Quantum on a number of RHEL 6.3 boxes.

>
> RHEL 6.4 version of libvirt will have OVS support built into it as well.
>   So just hold tight, it's around the corner :)

What kind of integration does this refer to?  Can you share any details?

>
> Perry
>
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Jonathan Mills
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Renaissance Computing Institute
UNC-Chapel Hill