Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2021 19:23:34 +0100 From: "Robert N. M. Watson" <robert.watson@cl.cam.ac.uk> To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: OpenStack hosting with FreeBSD + bhyve? Message-ID: <B80E9C2F-80E4-4ACB-B311-5039518E5421@cl.cam.ac.uk>
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--Apple-Mail=_16888066-14AF-4776-8C99-B4685BBCA204 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Hi all: Arm is releasing a new experimental CPU + SoC + board in early 2021, = Morello, based on our CHERI research at SRI International and the = University of Cambridge. At Cambridge, we=E2=80=99re looking to create a = =E2=80=98Morello Cloud=E2=80=99 facility to allow intra- and = inter-institutional access to Morello virtual machines hosted on a = couple of racks of Morello boards, which would run CheriBSD (our = CHERI-extended version of FreeBSD). Cambridge's Research Computing = Services currently use OpenStack to host VMs on several HPC clusters out = of our main university datacenter, and it seems that we will ask them to = host and manage the Morello Cloud facility for us. We=E2=80=99ve = identified and largely resolved on key technical dependency, bhyve = support for not just arm64, but also Morello, and so that seems likely = to be ready by our 2022 launch date. Which then raises the question: What obstacles exist between us and = having FreeBSD host OpenStack compute VMs using bhyve on these boards? = OpenStack has a lot of moving parts, and casual googling has not made it = immediately obvious to me whether there is currently a community of = FreeBSD OpenStack users using FreeBSD for hosting, rather than just on = VMs. I see lots of queries (and information) on VM image creation, but = all I=E2=80=99ve spotted really spotted on the hosting topic was a 2014 = presentation from Semihalf. However, their Nova GitHub repository that = appears untouched since roughly then: https://github.com/Semihalf/openstack-nova = <https://github.com/Semihalf/openstack-nova>; I wonder if anyone on this list could point me at anything more recent, = or if there are folks actively working on this currently / have = OpenStack deployed with FreeBSD hosting + bhyve? We can put in some = amount of engineering effort, but right now we=E2=80=99re running a bit = context free as to whether there=E2=80=99s existing work in this space. Thanks, Robert= --Apple-Mail=_16888066-14AF-4776-8C99-B4685BBCA204--
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