Unfortunately, I haven't heard much details about how people were using it. From a quick glance at the documentation, I didn't see exactly how Internal and Host Networking is done. However, if these are simply additional bridges with special devices attached (or not in the case of Host Networking), then it should "just work" with bridge compatibility. I'd give it a shot, and if it doesn't work, let us know. I can't promise that we can devote many resources to fixing problems specific to VirtualBox, but at the very least we can do some basic troubleshooting. And of course, we always take patches and better documentation!
As an aside, I tried to get VirtualBox running on my Mac a few months ago, but it seemed to dislike VMware fusion, and caused a kernel panic every time. I should really get it running natively on a Linux box, but other hypervisors have been a higher priority lately. --Justin On Mar 27, 2010, at 7:15 PM, Guilherme Fernandes wrote: > Hi Justin, > > Thanks a lot for the quick response! I'll try it out and report back. > > I would still like to hear more details from the people that tried it out > (e.g. does VBox Internal/Host Networking modes also work, etc), but this > should get me started. > > Thanks, > Guilherme > > On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Justin Pettit <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Guilherme. I have not personally run OVS with VirtualBox, but we've had > reports that it works with Linux as the host. Doing a quick pass through > their documentation, it appears that you should be able to make it work > simply by running OVS with bridge compatibility. This is documented in > INSTALL.bridge in the distribution. You can also browse the documentation > here: > > > http://openvswitch.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=openvswitch;a=blob_plain;f=INSTALL.bridge > > If you run into any problems, feel free to send questions to this list. If > you get it working, we'd love to hear about that, too! > > --Justin > > > On Mar 27, 2010, at 6:43 PM, Guilherme Fernandes wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm interested in creating a virtual dev environment with several pcs and a > > manageable (virtual) switch with VLAN support. I already use VirtualBox for > > some of the machines, so I would like to add OVS into the mix. > > > > I've seen a few pages mentioning OVS supports open source VirtualBox, but I > > can find no documentation at all about it. Is the mentioned support being > > that it can be used as a drop-in for VirtualBox's vswitch? If so, is this > > accomplished by just installing OVS on the Linux host where VirtualBox will > > run? Can someone elaborate a little on how they integrate? > > > > Thanks a lot in advance, > > Guilherme > > _______________________________________________ > > discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_openvswitch.org > > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_openvswitch.org
