[ovs-dev] [PATCH] openvswitch init script modifications for kvm and lxc hosts

Pasi Kärkkäinen pasik at iki.fi
Thu Dec 16 14:01:53 UTC 2010


On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 09:48:38PM -0500, Patrick Mullaney wrote:
> 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.
> 

http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/XenCommonProblems#head-cb533d9953d9d4b0c1f23d968331f3a620209fc3

-- Pasi

> > 
> > 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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