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Re: devstack + xenserver + parity

 

Hi Anthony,

Thanks for sharing this information and in particular for the devstack on xen scripts!

However, I did not see the security groups blueprint (https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/xenapi-security-groups) in your list. Is there a reason for this?
Also, it seems to me that xenapi-provider-firewall is quite closely related with the security groups. For instance, if we look at libvirt implementation, the same driver provides both security groups and provider firewall.
For this reason I reckon it might be worth serializing the implementation of these two blueprints. My team, which is already taking care of the security groups support, will be glad to implement the provider firewall feature as well.

Regards,
Salvatore.

From: nova-feature-parity-bounces+salvatore.orlando=eu.citrix.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:nova-feature-parity-bounces+salvatore.orlando=eu.citrix.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Anthony Young
Sent: 02 November 2011 21:56
To: nova-feature-parity@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Nova-feature-parity] devstack + xenserver + parity

Hey everybody -

To help get the ball rolling with the essex timeframe parity work, I've recently added support for xs5.6 to devstack.  The goal with xs+devstack is to make it as easy as possible to get OpenStack running with the XenServer hypervisor.  Hopefully, with some of the gnarly configuration stuff out of the way, it will be easier for interested devs to get involved.

The initial configuration that I created runs an all-in-one diablo domU (dash, nova-compute, nova-net, nova-api, glance, keystone) OpenStack cloud.  The networking configuration is ha nova-net with flatdhcp, which means that the nova domU acts as a dhcp server and gateway for all the instances on the host.  I thought that this would be a good configuration to start with since there is already a blueprint for ha-net + xen, and ha-net is generally desirable for many deployments.

Instructions to get started are here: https://github.com/cloudbuilders/devstack/blob/master/tools/xen/README.md

If you have any issues, or any of the docs are unclear, or otherwise have feedback/questions please let me know.

The list of feature parity blueprints is here: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/~nova-feature-parity

High       xenapi-ha-nova-network  (rcb)
Medium  instance-disk-management
Medium  libvirt-resize
Medium  xenapi-boot-from-volume
Medium  xenapi-live-migration
Medium  xs-configuration-drive
Low        vnc-console-cleanup (rcb)
Low        xenapi-provider-firewall
Undefined       compute-node-control
Undefined       disk-configuration-parity
Undefined       xenapi-text-console-support
Undefined       kvm-report-capabilities

If you are interested in working on any of these, let me know.  Right now, I know that Salvatore is working on security groups (which doesn't show up in the filter), and I'm focusing on ha-net and eventually vnc console cleanup.  It would be great to get people focusing on some of the higher priority blueprints as soon as possible.

Anthony



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