having custom systemvm's seems ideal. A network offering can be paired with a systemVM (or something along those lines).
Giving the community the ability to create their own Vyatta-like offerings is what will drive innovation. Would be fantastic to have a number of VPN/LB/IDS/etc offerings in the marketplace to choose from that just work seamlessly inside cloudstack. On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 2:26 AM, Kelceydamage@bbits <kel...@bbits.ca> wrote: > Great to hear. Let me know the name of the developer, and I'll talk to the > west coast arm if Vyatta and get them to match the contribution. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Dec 6, 2012, at 9:12 PM, "Musayev, Ilya" <imusa...@webmd.net> wrote: > > > Kelcey > > > > Made some headway already. > > > > Got a response from one Viyatta developer who was referred to us from > CEO as per my previous LinkedIn message. > > > > I will introduce him/her to CS but I will need CS dev team to help out > with knowledge gap and transfer. As well as people like you and I for > testing and whatever else we can do to help move this along. > > > > -ilya > > > > "Kelcey Damage (BBITS)" <kel...@bbits.ca> wrote: > > That’s why I did some in person work. I am going to really try and > massage > > my relationship with Brocade and get access to the Vyatta engineers. > > > > Hopefully between us we can get in touch with at least one influencer at > > Brocade/Vyatta. > > > > -kd > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Musayev, Ilya [mailto:imusa...@webmd.net] > > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 11:19 AM > > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > > Subject: RE: CentOS System VM? > > > > I started contacting few people, I contacted CEO of Vyatta and another > > person who now works for Citrix but was VP of Marketing for Vyatta. I did > > both contacts via LinkedIn. > > I do think LinkedIn will probably be ignored because it's a great > marketing > > spam tool. > > > > We should try direct email. > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Kelceydamage@bbits [mailto:kel...@bbits.ca] > > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 12:42 PM > > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > > Subject: Re: CentOS System VM? > > > > Interesting, I spoke with Brocade yesterday and the also feel their > Vyatta > > acquisition is a good gap offering for cloud services. > > > > Maybe we should see if their willing to produce the code? > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > On Dec 6, 2012, at 9:07 AM, Clayton Weise <cwe...@iswest.net> wrote: > > > >> I would love to see a Vyatta based router as well, and they have a > RESTful > > API (which is both good and bad given the mixture of tools. But making > use > > of a REST interface on a virtual router opens up the ability to integrate > > with other vendors who have virtual router/firewall appliances. > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Musayev, Ilya [mailto:imusa...@webmd.net] > >> Sent: Thursday, December 6, 2012 8:43 AM > >> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > >> Subject: RE: CentOS System VM? > >> > >> Vyatta provides great L3-L4 support with good number of features and > > interface. > >> > >> If there is a doc on how to create and integrate your system offering - > > that would be great. Unfortunately vyatta is also debian based.. but > that's > > not exactly a hard negative. > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Musayev, Ilya [mailto:imusa...@webmd.net] > >> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 11:25 AM > >> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > >> Subject: RE: CentOS System VM? > >> > >> I guess we can try creating alternative system offering :) > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Kelceydamage@bbits [mailto:kel...@bbits.ca] > >> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 3:17 AM > >> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > >> Subject: Re: CentOS System VM? > >> > >> I'm also interested in swapping out ha_proxy for nginx so the lb feature > > can support SSL termination. Currently building my own VRs as guest VMs > on > > shared networks for that feature. > >> > >> Is the community thinking about proper ssl endpoints and offloading? > >> > >> Sent from my iPhone > >> > >> On Dec 5, 2012, at 11:30 PM, "Musayev, Ilya" <imusa...@webmd.net> > wrote: > >> > >>> Granted both debian wheezy and centos/rhel 6, run the same major kernel > > version 2.6.32 i386 and hopefully same glibc library (need to confirm) - > it > > should be really easy to port the code over without needing to recompile > > anything. I don't believe we do anything overly complex - within > application > > code - that would glue components to specific OS. Applications like > apache, > > dns masq, haproxy, sshd and dhcp can be stock versions of what OS vendor > > released. > >>> > >>> This is my observations so far and I will give it a shot when time > allows > > to confirm. > >>> > >>> If someone knows of reason why this would fail, please let me know so I > > don't waste my time:) but I am fairly optimistic. > >>> > >>> Thanks > >>> Ilya > >>> > >>> "Kelceydamage@bbits" <kel...@bbits.ca> wrote: > >>> This sounds great, however I am hoping for updated wiki on how to > create > > your own system vm(distro). > >>> > >>> Maybe one day.... > >>> > >>> Sent from my iPhone > >>> > >>> On Dec 5, 2012, at 5:04 PM, Chiradeep Vittal > > <chiradeep.vit...@citrix.com> wrote: > >>> > >>>> The current system vm is getting long in the tooth. I (or Rohit > >>>> Yadav) will looking into building a wheezy-based systemvm that > >>>> includes hyper-v drivers. > >>>> Hopefully network throughput should be better as well when used with > >>>> multiple cores. > >>>> > >>>> On 12/5/12 10:38 AM, "Jason Davis" <scr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> TBH Hyper-V synthetic drivers(modules) is supported in the mainline > >>>>> kernel. > >>>>> > >>>>> So the argument that CentOS 6.x has better support is moot. > >>>>> > >>>>> This assumes that the kernel version on the SSVM is at least 2.6.32. > >>>>> I ran Ubuntu Server 11.x and Centos 6.x on Hyper-V natively and > >>>>> just needed to load the kernel modules for the synthetic stuffs to > > work. > >>>>> > >>>>> Ancient example of getting the Hyper-V modules built/working on > >>>>> Debian 6.0 > >>>>> http://virtualisationandmanagement.wordpress.com/2010/11/02/debian- > >>>>> o n-hype r-v-with-4-vcpu-support-and-syntetic-network/ > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Kelceydamage@bbits > >>>>> <kel...@bbits.ca> > >>>>> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>> I'm very interested in this. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Sent from my iPhone > >>>>>> > >>>>>> On Dec 5, 2012, at 10:10 AM, Donal Lafferty > >>>>>> <donal.laffe...@citrix.com> > >>>>>> wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> Has anyone looked into building a system VM that runs on a CentOS > >>>>>> distro? > >>>>>> > >>>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > >
