CFT: Procedure for installing DevStack on FreeBSD using PetiteCloud

[Aryeh Friedman]

We feel that openstack is not quiet robust enough to run out side of the
data center on bare metal.  Thus one of the potential uses of petitecloud
as we see it is as "blast wall" for when it does blow up.   It also allows
people who are studying for their OpenStack certification to have a machine
they can blow up over and over again.   We fully support native OpenStack
on FreeBSD and feel that all efforts in this area should move forward.  We
are offering the OpenStack community a way of doing experiments without
blowing real machines up.   Namely once they get what they want virtually
they will move it over to a native install that does not include
petirecloud.


On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 4:36 AM, Michał Dubiel <md at semihalf.com> wrote:

> Aryeh,
>
> Actually we have already a working OpenStack on FreeBSD. More precisely
> the Nova compute node running directly on FreeBSD host, which spawns guest
> VMs using bhyve hypervisor. It is in very early stage and currently it uses
> our prototype bhyve driver for the Nova compute. We have been putting now
> some effort to bring the bhyve into Nova via libvirt library as it is
> strongly favored by the OpenStack community. We had some discussions with
> maintainers of the Nova component and they clearly suggested that the
> libvirt path is the one that can be eventually integrated into the Nova
> code. One of our colleagues is currently putting together a wiki page that
> will explain how to set it all up, it should be available soon. If you are
> also interested in bringing the OpenStack into the FreeBSD world, perhaps
> it would make a sense to join forces and make it happen sooner.
>
> Regards,
> Michal.
>
>
> On 31 January 2014 10:28, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > I agree as you are really installing devstack on ubuntu within
>> petiteCloud.
>> > Also sending reply again as I forgot to reply all.
>> >
>>
>> All good tutorials are basically how to take existing tools and combine
>> them into something new.   Also as far I know *NO ONE* [at least
>> publically] has ever gotten any OpenStack component to run on FreeBSD in
>> any form and thus we see this as a very useful "PR trick" (as you call it)
>> for the entire FreeBSD community not just us.
>> --
>> Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org
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Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org