[ovs-discuss] openvswitch beginner

[Ben Pfaff]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 05:30:12PM +0530, shivakrishna.m at rib.srmuniv.ac.in wrote:
>  I am beginner and working on openvswitch. i am feeling tough to understand
>     through openvswitch documents. I installed virtual box and installed
>     openvswitch on the host system where virtual box has got installed using
>     INSTALL.LINUX document then i created a bridge using sudo ovs-vsctl
> add-br
>     br0 and added sudo ovs-vsctl add-port br0 eth0. could you please help how
>     exactly openvswitch participates in this scenario and how i add virtual
>     box VM's to bridge?? and how to check the connectivity??

You can add a virtual box VM to a bridge with the same command.  If
the VM has a device named vif1.0:
	ovs-vsctl add-port br0 vif1.0

You can check connectivity by trying to access the network from your
VM.