On April 23, 2014 at 9:18:00 PM, Ben Pfaff ([email protected]) 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.
It's also been used as a standalone component on a number of hardware switches that have implemented the VTEP schema, so there's some precedent of using it apart from the switching component (and on various OSs). --Justin _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
