Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 20:03:57 +0800 From: Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@gmail.com> To: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: Stephen Hocking <stephen.hocking@gmail.com>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bhyve backend for OpenStack Message-ID: <CAKYr3zz7OrvPLyk9_A0A5LukmGOC1PFJnRMurPnnFjuyE5YLyA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAGBxaXkP_TLqhH2HGiWAGtp6UTstYEvwsx=b4pU18oRUOcQ5dg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CA%2BxzKjCBSj2cT40X_QwG2vj7eytmtANcbGYi2fkA8MNuteP%2Byw@mail.gmail.com> <CAGBxaXncciYWgqhOS2kwvvb33y%2BoMKA3Zi0YywUdVxtLcNC=qw@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2BxzKjBdVveD%2BZW6=ufxPFNZ-xiYaGcCNy8MN1tm%2BCaTByv-%2BA@mail.gmail.com> <CAGBxaXkP_TLqhH2HGiWAGtp6UTstYEvwsx=b4pU18oRUOcQ5dg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote: > Z series machines run in x86 mode and then use QEMU on top of Linux so > there is almost no porting needed. OS is very very closely tied to Linux > (and all the advantages and drawbacks of doing stuff that way)... See web > site in my signature for more... currently there is no directly > downloadable copy but if you want to try it out just ask me and I will tell > you where to get it... by the time the mentioned issue of BSD mag is out > though the site will be fully up > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 5:44 AM, Stephen Hocking <stephen.hocking@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Well, I figure that if IBM's System Z can have a backend, then why can't >> FreeBSD? >> >> On 29 November 2016 at 21:37, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> The best option is to run OS inside of bhyve guests running linux... it >>> would take significant work to make nova run on FreeBSD for example... >>> there are a few other possible options for clouding a FreeBSD host... see a >>> forthcoming issue of BSD Magazine for details >>> >>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 5:30 AM, Stephen Hocking < >>> stephen.hocking@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> Having just returned from my local OpenStack User's Group meeting, I was >>>> wondering if anyone had looked at this? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> "I and the public know >>>> what all schoolchildren learn >>>> Those to whom evil is done >>>> Do evil in return" W.H. Auden, "September 1, 1939" >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list >>>> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers >>>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@f >>>> reebsd.org" >>>> >>> >>> aside from this thread there was a push for bhyve support in libvirt in which openstack prefers it be done via the libvirt layer. being which libvirt does now have support for bhyve, as also it is possible to actually run openstack nova compute on FreeBSD, among other openstack services. that being said however nobody has successfully packaged it up into a complete useable "freebsd" based environment. With enough research and googling youll find the remnant of the efforts out there on the web, I think it really should be taken to further the efforts of a native deployment itself. I think there would be some effort to complete it, but it is not unfathomable to accomplish if the right players got involved to follow it through. >>> >>> -- >>> Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> "I and the public know >> what all schoolchildren learn >> Those to whom evil is done >> Do evil in return" W.H. Auden, "September 1, 1939" >> >> >> > > > -- > Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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