[sheepdog-users] sheepdog openstack nova driver

[Hitoshi Mitake]

At Thu, 22 Jan 2015 16:12:34 +0800,
Jinzhi Chen wrote:
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> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Hitoshi Mitake <
> mitake.hitoshi at lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote:
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> > 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 a lot :) Could you provide the CI server before March 19th? The
OpenStack community announced the deadline clearly. So we need to
prepare CI before it. If you are not sure about the arrival date of CI
server, we need to consider about it :(

Thanks,
Hitoshi

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> > 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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