[sheepdog-users] sheepdog openstack nova driver

[Jinzhi Chen]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Hitoshi Mitake <
mitake.hitoshi at lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote:

> At Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:37:18 +0800,
> Jinzhi Chen wrote:
> >
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> > this work has been submitted to openstack. anyone interested can review
> > it.:-)
> >
> > https://review.openstack.org/148850
>
> Really great, thanks a lot Jinzhi! I'm not familiar with OpenStack and
> cannot allocate time for it, but I hope your patches can be accepted
> by the community. I'd like to help you from sheepdog side as much as
> possible.


Thanks! The driver cannot work in `snap` and `migration` functionality now.
we encounter the vdi lock issue in `snap` and `migration` procedure.


> BTW, the Cinder driver of sheepdog is an urgent matter. All Cinder
> drivers must have their own third party CI:
>
> https://www.mail-archive.com/openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org/msg43726.html
> The deadline is March 19th. If the CI server isn't provided, the
> driver is dropped.
>
> If you can provide the CI server for the sheepdog driver, I'm really
> glad (requirements:
> http://ci.openstack.org/third_party.html#requirements).


Currently we're not familiar with CI server setup for sheepdog driver.
We'll see what we can do.

> In addition,
> if you (or your colleagues) can be a maintainer of the driver, it will
> be really helpful for us. Are you interested in Cinder?
>

yeah, we're interested in Cinder.   currently we host our change for
sheepdog cinder driver in
https://github.com/NxtCloud/cinder/
We'll try to setup a CI server for sheepdog driver. Hope not take too
long.;-)


> Thanks,
> Hitoshi
>
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 10:15 PM, Jinzhi Chen <nxtjinzhi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > hi,
> > >         Currently, we implement a very basic sheepdog nova driver
> based on
> > > Scott Devoid's work. It works on creating and destroy vms . Due to the
> vdi
> > > locking issue, snapshot and vm migration is not implemented now.
> > >
> > >
> https://github.com/nxtcloud/nova/tree/surpport-sheepdog-instance-backend
> > >
> > >        Since this work is very basic and we still not figure it out
> how to
> > > contribute to openstack. I thinks it's better to post the work here in
> case
> > > that anyone want to use sheepdog as nova backend badly.  I'll create a
> wiki
> > > page on how to use this driver later.
> > >       We will appreciate it if anyone familiar with nova can review
> this
> > > work. we still don't know if it is the best way to do it.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Jinzhi Chen
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