On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 08:10:44PM -0400, Todd Deshane wrote: > Would it be possible to use open vswitch in a driver domain (Xen or > KVM PCI Passthrough) in order to do all the networking outside of > dom0? > > I couldn't think of a fundamentally limitation that would disallow it...
I don't know too much about driver domains. Theory, yes; practice, no. If you can run the Linux bridge in a driver domain, then you should be able to run Open vSwitch in a driver domain also. > Also, similarly, is there, or could there be in the future, a way for > an open vswitch to be used over the network? Meaning that a computer > or VM connects over a special channel to get its networking. Kind of > link how an open flow controller can be used on the network; I wonder > if it is, or ever would be, possible to use an open vswitch over the > network? If you are looking for OpenFlow, then Open vSwitch supports OpenFlow. Beyond that, if you want to configure Open vSwitch over the network, Open vSwitch exports its configuration database over a custom protocol called OVSDB that you can access over the network. Of course, you can also just ssh in. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_openvswitch.org
