Hi All,

using XCP (Xen Cloud Platform) which comes with openvswitch - I was able to
start 2 VM's and configure the openvswitch to speak to nox. I didn't need
to uninstall the default bridge etc. just executed the commands ovs-vsctl
set-controller /

Only issue is both the outbound traffic from VM's and control traffic to
NOX goes on same eth0 (xenbr0).

Ideally, I would like to use eth0 (xenbr0) for openflow control traffic and
eth1(xenbr1) connected directly to an software based openflow switch to
send/recv vm's traffic. But, this is not working.

Thanks a lot for your help.


Regards,
Vishal
(p.s., not really a NOX question, but just cross posting if someone has
already solved openvswitch configuration for openflow on xen or xen cloud
platform)

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Vishal <[email protected]> wrote:

> After installing XEN and few VM's running, I have following interfaces:
>
> xenbr0, vif1.0...., and virbr0.
>
> Now, I can compile openvswitch from tar ball.  From what I understand, I
> can replace - the xen bridge with openvswitch bridge ? but I am not sure,
> if that allows me to enable openflow ?
>
> Basically, I want to know - what is the next step to do after compiling
> openvswitch ?  I am able to run openvswitch with nox on linux with multiple
> physical ports.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Vishal
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Nicholas Bastin <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Vishal <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > Whats the best/easiest way to achieve Openflow on XEN?
>> >
>> > Also, Openvswitch has ovsctl as well as ofctl.
>> >
>> > But, XEN comes with its own script using brctl.
>>
>> In what environment?  XCP and XenServer both come with OVS and
>> ovs-vsctl.  If you are building your own XenSource-based solution,
>> obviously is incumbent upon you to provide OVS yourself.
>>
>> --
>> Nick
>>
>
>

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