[ovs-dev] [PATCH 11/13] datapath: Allow building against 3.19.x

[Ben Pfaff]

Vagrant sounds like a real winner.  Thanks for working on the kernel
testing infrastructure.  I hope that we can start to build up a library
of tests.

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 06:04:31PM -0800, Andy Zhou wrote:
> I have experimented with the user-mode linux about a month back. I was
> not able to get ovs user space to run reliably with the
> (light weight) host-fs file system. It may run better with a
> disk-image (I did not try), but then we willl have to deal with
> building
> and distributing disk-images, which Vagrant solves.
> 
> On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 10:52 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 07, 2015 at 01:04:57PM +0100, Thomas Graf wrote:
> >> On 02/06/15 at 10:28pm, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> >> > We already do a ton of kernel module builds in travis, do you mean that
> >> > we should do one for every released kernel, or do you mean something
> >> > else?
> >>
> >> I'm primarily thinking of Andy's work to enable runtime CI as well.
> >> I think the matrix of stable kernels is fine.
> >
> > Oh, yes, that would be very nice.
> >
> > I wonder whether user-mode Linux is usable enough to test OVS.  I built
> > a related prototype back in 2008 or so, but I never managed to automate
> > it properly.
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