[sheepdog-users] sheepdog openstack nova driver

[Jinzhi Chen]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 5:35 PM, Hitoshi Mitake <
mitake.hitoshi at lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote:

> 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:
> >
> > > 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 :(
>
>
Sure we can provide the CI server before March 19th ;)
We're working on that and will try our best to make it as fast as possible.

Thanks,
> Hitoshi
>
> >
> >
> > > 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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