[ovs-dev] [PATCH] ovsdb: Expose vhost-user socket directory in ovsdb

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Thu Jan 28 17:55:19 UTC 2016


On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 10:57:35AM +0000, Robert Wojciechowicz wrote:
> In order to correctly interoperate with Openstack and ODL,
> the vhost-user socket directory must be exposed from OVS via OVSDB.
> Different distros may package OVS in different ways,
> so the locations of these sockets may vary depending on how
> ovs-vswitchd has been started. Some clients need information where
> the sockets are located when instantiating Qemu virtual machines.
> This path is stored in Open_vSwitch table in other_config column
> with key vhost-sock-dir, e.g.:
> {vhost-sock-dir="/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch"}
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robert Wojciechowicz <robertx.wojciechowicz at intel.com>

Architecturally, ovs-vswitchd only reads other-config columns, it never
writes to them.



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