We are working with an IceHouse packstack install on CentOS, using OVS.  We are 
trying to converge on an IceHouse configuration that is analogous to a previous 
Grizzly configuration we have in which security groups are disabled AND no 
Linux bridge is inserted between VM nics and OVS.  In Grizzly, we principally 
accomplished this by setting "libvirt_vif_driver" in nova.conf to 
".../LibvirtOpenVswitchVirtualPortDriver".  It appears setting 
"libvirt_vif_driver" to "../LibvirtGenericVIFDriver" is the principal choice in 
IceHouse.

In IceHouse, we have experimented with using the NoopFirewallDriver and related 
configurations in both nova.conf and Neutron plugin.ini.  While it appears we 
can disable security group functionality, we were not successful (through pure 
OpenStack configuration) in preventing the Linux bridge from being inserted in 
the data path.  In one experiment, we additionally changed 
"portbindings.OVS_HYBRID_PLUG" from a hard-coded "True" to "False" in 
ovs_neutron_plugin.py and this appeared to have the desired effect.

While kind of hackey, is there anything wrong with this approach?  Can anyone 
suggest a configuration alternative we might have missed?

Thanks,
Randy


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