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

[Sébastien RICCIO <sr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/19/2011 01:57 PM, Mike McClurg wrote:
> There are a couple new requests for different storage backend types,
> including GlusterFS. Unfortunately, we don't really have the capacity
> with this project to take on writing new storage backends. Right now,
> we're just trying to get the existing backends working on Debian ;) If
> you have experience with ocfs2, and you'd like to give SR backend
> writing a try, please do! Take a look at the existing SRs, and come back
> to the list if you have any questions. Expanding the number of storage
> backends we provide is definitely something that we're interested in.
Okay I'll give it a try taking example on existing SR types and try to 
build one for OCFS2
and let you know how it progresses.

> XCP already supports openvswitch, so yes, this is on our to-do list for
> xapi on Debian. It's not the highest priority on our list, though, as we
> have a lot of other things to get working first, such as basic bridge
> networking. If you would like to attempt to get it working, we would
> definitely incorporate any work you do into the xapi-on-Debian project.
> Feel free to edit the wiki page with anything you find.
This is on now on my todo list too :)
> > Last question :)
> >
> > By default xend is started at boot, shouldn't it be disabled when using
> > xapi ?
> Yes, you are correct. We still need to automate this in the xapi install
> package. Go ahead and do it manually for now.
>
> Jon, Todd and I really appreciate you being an early adopter. Keep
> coming back with questions! Hopefully we'll get some more brave souls
> out there to give this a go...
Ok. Thanks. That's what I did actually.

I would add this to the wiki page before the step "7. reboot" but I 
can't edit it (immuable page):
apt-get install chkconfig
chkconfig xendomains off
chkconfig xend off


Thanks for your work,
Sébastien

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