[CentOS-virt] Official openvswitch package for CentOS7

[George Dunlap]

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