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Subject: Re: OVS documentation
From: Sebastien Goasguen <runseb@gmail.com>
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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 17:38:41 +0200
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> On Sep 30, 2015, at 4:20 PM, Ron Wheeler =
<rwheeler@artifact-software.com> wrote:
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> On 30/09/2015 6:33 AM, Sebastien Goasguen wrote:
>>> On Sep 29, 2015, at 2:06 PM, Ron Wheeler =
<rwheeler@artifact-software.com> wrote:
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>>> Can someone fix this?
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>> Honestly Ron, the issue is that very few people are actually using =
the GRE isolation.
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>> One would need to test it with the latest cloudstack 4.5.2 and latest =
OVS to see if it works with newer versions=E2=80=A6.
> Any suggestions about what to say or is it best left "as is"
>> -sebastien
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>>> Does anyone know what the correct recommendation should be?
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>>> Is anyone interested in the documentation?
>> Of course...
> Sorry if that seemed rhetorical.
> I was hoping to find an actual volunteer to work with or to help point =
me to areas that are known to need editing.
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>>=20
>>> I am trying to read it all with an outsider's eye and identify areas =
that I have trouble understanding.
>>> Is it customary to use the Dev list or just create JIRA Issues.
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>> for questions from the user side, usually it=E2=80=99s better to hit =
the users@ list.
>> But you can create JIRA issues as well, if it=E2=80=99s an error.
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>> Ideally, once you test it on newer versions, you can also submit a =
github PR to make the required change in the docs. We will happily =
merge.
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> I am not sure what you mean by testing.

I mean actually deploying a GRE based network for cloudstack. That way =
you will know if it works with the latest version of centos and OVS.

> I am probably going to limit my efforts to editing and will depend on =
others to suggest content and verify the accuracy of changes since I am =
too new to CloudStack and do not have a CloudStack test environment to =
use for testing.

Maybe you could try to deploy it on one node, that will help you =
understand and check the docs.

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>>> Ron
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>>> On 29/09/2015 2:18 AM, Nguyen Anh Tu wrote:
>>>> Dear Ron,
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>>>> It's old I believe.
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>>>> --Tuna
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>>>> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Ron Wheeler =
<rwheeler@artifact-software.com <mailto:rwheeler@artifact-software.com>> =
wrote:
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>>>>    =
http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/master/networking/ovs-plugin.html
>>>>    has the following sentence:
>>>>    "CentOS 6.4 and OpenvSwitch 1.10 are recommended." These seem to
>>>>    be very old. Are they really the recommended versions?
>>>>=20
>>>>    Ron
>>>>=20
>>>>    --     Ron Wheeler
>>>>=20
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> Ron Wheeler
> President
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