[ovs-discuss] ovsdb

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Thu Apr 24 14:43:03 UTC 2014


On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 08:20:58AM -0400, Mark Haywood wrote:
> On 4/24/14 12:17 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> >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.
> 
> This is encouraging. Have those ports been (or will they be) folded
> back into the base code? Assuming a Solaris port was completed,
> would changes, particularly portability related changes, be accepted
> back into the base code?

All of those ports are folded into the base code.  Additional ports are
welcome, in fact encouraged.



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