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. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
