[ovs-discuss] About VDE compatibility

[Jesse Gross]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Liang Guo <bluestonechina at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com> wrote:
>> I think the better path would just be to directly connect KVM to OVS,
>> using some of the various scripts that are floating around.
>>
> Great, this will eliminate many  data exchange between kvm and OVS.

I simply meant to add the tap devices created by KVM to an OVS bridge,
so I'm not sure what additional data exchange will be eliminated.

> BTW: do you have any plan to push openvswith kernel part to upstream
> linux kernel?

Yes, but it's not necessary in order to use with KVM.