[ovs-dev] [PATCH] openvswitch init script modifications for kvm and lxc hosts
Patrick Mullaney
pm.mullaney at gmail.com
Thu Dec 16 02:48:38 UTC 2010
Hi Ben,
> There's some confusion here I think. XenServer is a whole OS, just as
> SuSE is. As far as I know, no one carves out bits and pieces of
> XenServer and installs them on top of other distributions. (Maybe you
> know differently? I am no expert on this.)
Actually, I'm not an expert here either. Its probably just my
confusion of xen vs. xenserver.
>
> So, assuming I'm right about that, then there may be no need for it on
> SuSE, because admins want OVS to run if it is installed (as you say).
>
> > > It doesn't make sense to install etc_init.d_openvswitch-xapi-update on
> > > SuSE at all, since it will at most print an error message and exit with
> > > status 1. So it seems unnecessary to modify that file.
> >
> > I can not package it, but on the chance that someone wanted to use suse
> > and xenserver, it might be easier if it was just there. My changes were
> > just about LSB compliance, other distros might care about this too.
>
> Ah, OK. Fine.
>
> > Another approach might be to move basic startup into a separate common
> > script area and then have the xenserver scripts deal with starting
> > stuff specific to it. I don't have xenserver here and didn't watnt to
> > break it on a first attempt. The nice part is I think this should
> > work for both cases now.
>
> That's a good idea too.
>
> I haven't done that yet, but I've tweaked these patches to my liking and
> I'll send them back out to you and the list in a minute. I've retained
> your authorship and sign-offs, and tried to note the changes that I made
> in the proper format, but please do review the changes that I made to
> ensure that they make sense.
Cool - thanks. I'll check them over.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben.
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