[Xen-users] XAPI on debian - openvswitch and ocfs2 support

[Sébastien RICCIO <sr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Going deeper with my tests of xapi on debian, I would like to ask if 
there is any plan to support
openvswitch for the network  management and open-iscsi+multipath+ocfs2 
as a backend for
a vhd based SR ?

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For ocfs2 with iscsi the kernel module is already available in the 
kernel, you would just need to:
box# apt-get install open-iscsi multipath-tools ocfs2-tools
box# dpkg reconfigure ocfs2-tools

Would it be possible to have a SR type ocfs2 acting like a nfs SR (using 
vhd files on ocfs2 instead of nfs),
like for example:

with multipath
SR=`xe sr-create type=ocfs name-label=ocfs2 
device-config:device=/dev/mapper/mpath0-part1 
device-config:devicepath=/cloud/files`
without
SR=`xe sr-create type=ocfs name-label=ocfs2 
device-config:device=/dev/sdc1 device-config:devicepath=/cloud/files`
That would ofcs2 mount <device> somewhere on the system, and read/write 
the vhd files in <devicepath> subdirectory (or root of the device, if 
omitted)
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For openvswitch, seems the packages exists in the debian unstable repo, 
shouldn't be a problem,
except maybe for the datapath kernel module. I'm going to try it, 
something like
apt-get install openvswitch-common openvswitch-datapath-source 
openvswitch-pki openvswitch-switch python-openvswitch
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Last question :)

By default xend is started at boot, shouldn't it be disabled when using 
xapi ?

Cheers,
Sébastien






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