Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 22:19:31 -0700 From: Samuel Cassiba <s@cassiba.com> To: Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> Cc: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OpenStack on FreeBSD Message-ID: <CAOqvHK95jT05UqJ3YuET%2Bx3naKyEzZsnsKJwj0ZtHejpbpfN4A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <42e25cfc-29ac-4782-bec9-7dbb91d12b7d@nomadlogic.org> References: <CAFYkXjmRetiKMfObkW83LeEgnKF9E4vMB6M9DfEOYtOH9X-a7w@mail.gmail.com> <42e25cfc-29ac-4782-bec9-7dbb91d12b7d@nomadlogic.org>
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On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> wrote: > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-virtualization-unsubs > cribe@freebsd.org" > There was an effort some time ago to get the Compute service working with FreeBSD: https://github.com/Semihalf/openstack-nova This spawned a blueprint in Nova ( https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/freebsd-compute-node) which gained no traction during the Icehouse cycle, and was never implemented. The Nova code needs rework, and people, to be accepted, and probably wouldn't be until at least Ocata.
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