[pve-devel] working on ifupdown2 openvswitch addon

[Alexandre DERUMIER]

>>As said, I'm open to integrate the gui also, with a "experimental" title
>>and if only shown once pve-network is installed. This way you'd reach a
>>lot more people open for testing easier, as it does not requires them to
>>apply patches and build packages them self or download unsigned packages :)

Yes :)  I don't known if I could add some kind of api in pve-network package,
to display or not the sdn section in datacenter ?



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De: "Thomas Lamprecht" <t.lamprecht at proxmox.com>
À: "pve-devel" <pve-devel at pve.proxmox.com>, "aderumier" <aderumier at odiso.com>
Envoyé: Lundi 17 Février 2020 15:41:39
Objet: Re: [pve-devel] working on ifupdown2 openvswitch addon

On 2/17/20 1:56 PM, Alexandre DERUMIER wrote: 
>>> Yay ! 
>>> A bit too busy right now, but can't wait to test all your SDN plugins. 
> 
> I need beta testers, so if you have some time to test, tell me , I'll send you gui patches and doc 
> 

As said, I'm open to integrate the gui also, with a "experimental" title 
and if only shown once pve-network is installed. This way you'd reach a 
lot more people open for testing easier, as it does not requires them to 
apply patches and build packages them self or download unsigned packages :) 

> 
>>> BTW, is there still advantages for OVS bridges over standard linux bridges once your SDN stuff is out ? IIUC, most tunneling can be done with standard (vlan-aware) Linux bridges. So, what's left for >>OVS ? 
> I think only dpdk, but it's not implemented in proxmox currently. (and this need a lof of tuning, with hugepages, vhost-user interfaces,....) 
> I still waiting for xdp implementation for bridge :) 
> 
> 
> But for all others thing, you can do it with classic linux interfaces (vxlan , gre, ipip tunnel ) , bridge, vlan-aware bridge, qinq, ... 
> Still don't understand why some users want ovs currently ;) (no userland = no problem , trust the kernel :) 
> 

me too, ideally pve-network would replace the crude OVS implementation completely 
and allow to depreacate it some time in the future (wishful thinking, I know ^^)