Re: [Xen-devel] Pre4paration for the Xen Hackathon, March 6-8

[Ben Pfaff <blp-l0M0P4e3n4LQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 04:38:39PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 17:51 +0000, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > Lars Kurth <lars.kurth-LM2mM/qkH7s@public.gmane.org> writes:
> > 
> > > I have made preparations to reach out to further groups in SIlicon
> > > valley, and want to ensure that the core people are signed up before I
> > > do this.
> > 
> > Would it be helpful to have one of Nicira's Open vSwitch
> > developers come? (Is anyone interested in discussing
> > networking-related topics?)  
> 
> I think there will some xapi/XCP folks there who I expect would be
> interested in talking networking and vswitch in that context.

Thanks.  I added my name to the wiki page.  I'll plan to attend at
least the first day, and then additional days as it becomes
worthwhile.

> In the context of xen-unstable and the libx/xl toolstacks there's not
> much required for vswitch integration -- just a working hotplug script
> mechanism and a suitable script. I actually have patches for the script
> growing stale in my queue -- they don't work because of issues with
> hotplug script running on shutdown (basically the xenstore info is gone
> when the script runs so we can't remove the VIF from the switch). Roger
> Pau Monee has a patch series fixing hotplug scripts and once it goes in
> I'll resurrect my old patches.

Sounds good, thank you for the information.