[ovs-discuss] ovsdb

[Ben Pfaff]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 12:07:18AM -0400, Mark Haywood wrote:
> I'm investigating alternatives for providing an OVSDB server for
> Oracle Solaris. One option I was considering was porting the OVSDB
> server from the Open Virtual Switch distribution. I'm wondering how
> feasible it would be to port only the OVSDB server from the
> distribution. Is the OVSDB server in the distribution easily
> separated from the OVS component(s). And if so, how portable is the
> OVSDB source? Open doesn't always mean easily ported and I'm
> wondering how portable the code would be into a non-Linux
> environment. I'd appreciate any input/experience on this front.

OVS builds on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and (increasingly) on Windows.  If
it doesn't build on Solaris, it probably isn't very hard to port it.