[CentOS-virt] Official openvswitch package for CentOS7

George Dunlap
Fri, 18 Sep 2015 14:36:23 -0000

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 7:38 AM, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo at redhat.com>
wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 6:15 PM, C. L. Martinez <carlopmart at
gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 6:06 PM, George Dunlap <dunlapg at
umich.edu> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 3:19 PM, C. L. Martinez <carlopmart at
gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >>  Exists an official openvswitch package for CentoS7?? If I am
not
>> >> wrong, this:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/cloud/x86_64/openstack-kilo/openstack-neutron-openvswitch-2015.1.0-1.el7.noarch.rpm
>> >>
>> >> it can be used with openstack only.
>> >>
>> >> Do I need to recompile from source like is is explained here:
>> >>
>> >>
https://n40lab.wordpress.com/2015/06/28/centos-7-installing-openvswitch-2-3-2-lts/
>> >> or exists another rpm package for CentOS7??
>> >
>> > Since you're sending this to centos-virt, I assume you want to
use
>> > openvswitch for virtualization?
>>
>> Correct, I will need to use for virtualization. In my case, only for
>> KVM. I don't use LXC or Docker.
>>
>> And in my opinion, I think it could be a great idea.
>
>
> Alan what do you think? Should we move openvswitch from cloud/openstack to
> virt/kvm-common ?

Since Xen users may want it too, it should probably have its own repo
(so that both virt/kvm and virt/xen can use it).

 -George