Using signed dbosoft OVS / OVN build for Windows

[fw2568]

Hello,
I noticed that you don't distribute a signed driver for OVS. We maintain an OVS driver (https://github.com/dbosoft/ovs), a Windows build for OVN (https://github.com/dbosoft/ovn), and a management library for OVN (https://github.com/dbosoft/dotnet-ovn) for https://www.eryph.io, which uses OVN for overlay network support. Installation of OVS and initial setup was one of the pain point in eryph, so we have no installer but a full driver management which is currently part of eryph-zero: https://github.com/eryph-org/eryph/blob/main/src/apps/src/Eryph-zero/Startup/EnsureHyperVAndOvsStartupHandler.cs

If you find this helpful, I can offer to include our signed driver package in Antrea. Let me know if you're interested.

Best Regards,
Frank

[antoninbas]

Thanks for the note, and sorry for the delay, I was on vacation at that time.

I think it would be great for users to have the option to use an already signed driver when installing Antrea on Windows. 2 questions:

• do you make any notable change to the Windows datapath code in your OVS fork?
• do you have an URL that can be used to download the driver files? If yes, we should be able to open a test PR and run our existing test pipelines using your driver, for validation.

cc @wenyingd for visibility

[fw2568]

Hi, yes - now I was on holiday:-) We made some changes but most of them only for hotfixes - some made it already upstream - and separating the driver IDs from OVS build drivers, so we do not conflict with it. Release is currently bundled with eryph, but that something we can change.
I will check for details next days.