[ovs-discuss] Distributed switch

[Ben Pfaff]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 1:17 AM, Julien GUAY
<julien.guay at etu.univ-nantes.fr> wrote:
> I have been trying to install openVSitch for a few days and the more I
> read the documentation and the mailing list, the less I understand its
> functionalities. My goal would have been to put some switches on a server
> and then to connect them different VM from everywhere in a physical
> network (so the switch has to be visible on every computer in the network,
> or at least by every computer hosting a VM needing to be connected). I
> would like to be confirmed that it not possible with openvswitch. And then
> if it is not possible, is there a way to solve my problem with
> openvswitch?

This should be possible with Open vSwitch.  If these VMs are on the same
subnet, then you might be able to use VLANs to do what you want. Otherwise,
you can set up GRE tunnels.