How do you handle the fact that as it stands bhyve can only run *nix like OS's (specifically FreeBSD and Linux only)? The long term answer seems to be a working kqemu or use something like PetiteCloud ( http://www.petitecloud.org) as a bridge (run OS nested on bhyve under PC)
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Michał Dubiel <m...@semihalf.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have prepared commits I would like to have it reviewed and eventually > merged that add initial, limited support for FreeBSD as a host to nova. It > includes basic networking via freebsd_net driver (similar to the linux_net) > and few addons to libvirt compute driver in order to support the bhyve > hypervisor. Intent for those commits is let other play with openstack on > FreeBSD and to provide a code base for further development, as the current > version comes with many limitations like: > > - Only FreeBSD guest OSes can be used > - No support for the config drive > - Only one disk and one Ethernet interface > - No pause/resume functionality > - No VM migration support > - No files injection to VMs filesystem > - Only works with bridged networking using nova-network with Flat/FlatDHCP > multi-host mode > > Unit test are included, however, for all that to work on a real system you > have to use a slightly patched version of libvirt as not all features has > been merged to the official repository yet. My question is if that is > applicable to be merged at all, or should I wait for all necessary stuff to > be in libvirt official repository at first? I want also mention that there > is an active work underway in libvirt community to have all them > implemented and included in the libvirt code. > > Regards, > Michal > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > -- Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org
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