OVS doesn't yet integrate well with libvirt. You can kluge it through brcompatd, I think.
On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 01:18:36PM -0800, Tyrion Lannister wrote: > Thanks. This worked. Now I cannot create VMs using virt-install or > virt-manager. Is this not supported? With virt-install, I get an error > saying > "Failed to add tap interface to bridge. br0 is not a bridge device" > > As per the instructions, I have removed the bridge module and want to use > the ovs. I see the source has this thing called ovsbrcompat, but I am not > necessarily looking to get the linux bridge compatibility. > > Tyrion > > On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > > > "dhclient br0" should work. This is the same behavior as the Linux > > bridge, so if you've used that, then this works the same way. > > > > rhel/README.RHEL in the source distribution has some information on Red > > Hat network script integration. It was contributed; I haven't > > personally tried it. > > > > On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 06:22:38PM -0800, Tyrion Lannister wrote: > > > Thanks. But the IP is coming from DHCP. How do I enable DHCP on the > > bridge? > > > And how do I prevent eth0 from getting that IP address? I am assuming I > > > dont have to go muck with ifcfg-eth0 under /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts > > > nor do I have to create ifcfg-br0 in the same place. > > > > > > Tyrion > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 06:03:02PM -0800, Tyrion Lannister wrote: > > > > > I just installed OpenVswitch 1.3.0 on Centos 6 with KVM QEMU. I have > > some > > > > > basic questions: > > > > > > > > > > 1) I add a bridge br0 - ovs-vsctl add-br br0 > > > > > 2) I attach eth0 to br0 - ovs-vsctl add-port br0 eth0 > > > > > > > > > > I havent added any VMs yet, but I expect to still reach the > > hypervisor > > > > > using IP. > > > > > > > > > > eth0 is getting an IP address from the network using DHCP. But it is > > not > > > > > pingable anymore. > > > > > > > > > > Shouldnt eth0 be a slave of br0 at this point. Shouldnt it be bridge0 > > > > that > > > > > should own the address? How does one talk to the hypervisor at this > > > > point? > > > > > > > > Yes. Put the IP address on br0. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
