[ovs-dev] [PATCH] xenserver: make ovs-xenserverd startup configurable and disable it for 5.6.0 onwards.

[Ben Pfaff]

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 03:35:51PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
>> In my testing with XenServer 5.6.810 without ovs-xenserverd the
>> vswitch bridge external-id network-uuid field was always kept up to
>> date over both pool join and pool eject. I believe this is because
>> xapi is restarted on both pool join and pool eject and on restart all
>> PIFs are plugged again. This causes the vswitch field to be updated,
>> either via a call to interface reconfigure or via an explicit
>> ovs-vsctl call in the case of internal networks.
>>
>> I think the only reason this daemon would still be required with
>> XenServer 5.5 is that the explicit call to ovs-vsctl for internl
>> networks is not present there.
>
> Thank you.  I pushed this to "master".

I've unfortunately had a report here, which I've confirmed, that network
UUIDs are not being updated on 5.6.810-31078p.  Is this build new
enough that you would expect ovs-xenserverd to be unnecessary, or
should we expect to update to a newer build first?

Thanks,

Ben.