[ovs-discuss] Create a new Open vSwitch in Xen

[Thiago Martorelli]

Ben,

I know that, but I wonder the possibility of doing this.

I am wanting to replicate a scenario that already exists, so I wanted to
have more than one switch nested.

And how do you create another. How can I do this?

Thiago


2011/11/23 Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>

> Please don't drop the mailing list.
>
> There's not much difference between having two switches and connecting
> them, and having a single switch.  What do you expect to differ?
>
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 06:30:58PM -0200, Thiago Martorelli wrote:
> > Ben,
> >
> > I would like to emulate 2 Open vSwitch 2 in a Xen Server. It would have a
> > link between these two OVS. Some VMs would be connected to a switch and
> > other VMs on the other switch.
> >
> > The goal would be emulate a network in a Xen Server (with multiple
> > switches) and another network in other Xen Server.
> >
> > In ovs-vswitchd manual is written that "A single ovs-vswitchd can manage
> > any number of switch instances", so the question of how you do it. I do
> not
> > know if that was the idea of bridges.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Thiago
> >
> > 2011/11/23 Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>
> >
> > > On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 05:44:50PM -0200, Thiago Martorelli wrote:
> > > > I have a dummy question... I need create a another Open vSwitch in a
> Xen
> > > > Server and connect both. How can I do?
> > > >
> > > > The command to create a new bridge is equal to create a new OVS
> instance?
> > > >
> > > > Example:
> > > > ovs-vsctl add-br xenbr1
> > > > ovs-vsctl add-port xenbr1 eth0
> > > > ovs-vsctl add-port xenbr1 vif2.0
> > >
> > > Maybe you should explain your high-level goal.  Although what you
> > > write will superficially work, it's not a good idea.
> > >
>
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