[ovs-discuss] RFC: OpenvSwitch support in libvirt

Jérémie Tarot silopolis at gmail.com
Mon Jun 20 10:00:04 UTC 2011


Hi,

2011/6/17 Justin Pettit <jpettit at nicira.com>

> Thank you very much for highlighting this.  Support for libvirt is on our
> roadmap, and this does seem like a particularly good time to devote some
> resources to making this happen.  A few of us have subscribed to the mailing
> list, but I imagine it will take a little while for us to get up to speed.
>  If there is anything you feel is particularly important or urgent, feel
> free to ping me or the dev at openvswitch.org mailing list.  I'll try to get
> caught up over the next couple of days.
>

I think what is particularly important is to make sure libvirt's new network
model can handle Openvswitch tomorrow. By handling it, I mean:
   * at least being able to use it as a full replacement for the native
linux bridge at first.
   * ideally, provide "a little" more supporting bonding, VLANs...
This would allow more people to adopt Openvswitch for "basic" usage and get
familiar with, widespreading OVS a little more. From my PoV, this could lead
an important boost in OVS adoption and a must have for libvirt 1.0.

   * Maybe, if needed, influence new libvirt's network model so that it
would be able, in the future, to manage relevant OVS specifics and advanced
features like it should do for other network virtualization technologies

My 2cts
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