[ovs-dev] [PATCH] Windows: Implement Hyper-V VIF discovery agent.

[Alin Serdean]

Hi Yin,

Please see my answers inlined.

Thanks,
Alin.

From: Yin Lin [mailto:linyi at vmware.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 1, 2017 12:31 AM
To: Alin Serdean <aserdean at cloudbasesolutions.com>; dev at openvswitch.org
Subject: RE: [ovs-dev] [PATCH] Windows: Implement Hyper-V VIF discovery agent.

Hi Alin,

The issues compiler complained are all related to WMI. Have you checked if WMI is supported at all in Nano? We need WMI to monitor virtual switch and interface changes no matter what. Even powershell commands are based on WMI queries. If WMI is not available, I highly doubt if there is a way at all to implement the discovery agent.
[Alin Serdean] Powershell commandlets work. I.e.: get-vmswitch; new-vmswitch etc. Even our module for renaming works if we change to `Load` on this line: https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/blob/master/datapath-windows/misc/OVS.psm1#L21
WMI works but not all API's(https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/api/index)  are fully available in .NET core. We could use other languages or probably implement it ourselves in .NET core.
Otherwise, can we install .NET framework on Nano?
[Alin Serdean] No, we can use only .NET core (https://github.com/dotnet/core) https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/45d0055e-f062-4b67-8587-de2e53e56232/nano-server-and-net-framework?forum=NanoServer .
Best regards,
Yin Lin