From owner-freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Tue Aug 23 16:58:44 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E467BC3D64 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 16:58:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from vps-mail.nomadlogic.org (unknown [IPv6:2607:f2f8:a098::2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 184871935 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 16:58:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from la-dgt-31327.usa.tribune.com (nat-192-187-90-117.nat.tribpub.com [192.187.90.117]) by vps-mail.nomadlogic.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 10f5c5cc TLS version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2016 09:58:43 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: OpenStack on FreeBSD To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org References: From: Pete Wright Message-ID: <42e25cfc-29ac-4782-bec9-7dbb91d12b7d@nomadlogic.org> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 09:58:44 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 16:58:44 -0000 On 8/23/16 4:38 AM, CeDeROM wrote: > Hello, > > Are there any plans to make stable port/package of OpenStack on FreeBSD? :-) > > I have seen this nice article that first steps are already made: > http://empt1e.blogspot.com/2015/06/openstack-on-freebsdxen-proof-of-concept.html > > It would be really nice to build this kind of cloud infrastructure on > top of FreeBSD :-) I have not seen any traction on getting FreeBSD support working on OpenStack even when talking/working with several OpenStack commercial vendors. IMHO - if this is something that people see a need for I would start by focusing on seeing what the state of libvirt is on FreeBSD and bhyve. I have lost track of where the libvirt code base is in terms of bhyve support. Another two bits...I've worked on OpenStack for several years now and the only opinion I have of it at this point is that we are probably lucky to not support it. The code base is a horrible mess, with lots of Linux'isms baked into it. Yet even if you are running OpenStack on a fully supported platform like RHEL you will still need to do quite a bit of hacking to make it work in your environment. I've even seen vendors check in untested code in the primary github repositories causing a fair amount of headaches. In light of this I reckon there is room for an alternative to OpenStack in the market...hopefully one based on a cleaner implementation :) Cheers, -pete -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org nomadlogicLA