[ovs-discuss] Openvswitch and Linux containers

Aishwarya aishu85 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 1 01:04:59 UTC 2011


Hi Jesse,

Thanks. I am using brctl bridging to start up the containers and have the
containers communicate with the host machine. Due to the bridge module being
loaded, I am not able to load the openvswitch module. Can openvswitch be
used for container-to-container communication as well, so that I do not have
to use bridging at all, and the openvswitch module would install correctly?

Thanks,
Aish

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Aishwarya <aishu85 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Jesse,
> >
> > Just thought of one more thing before I proceed. If openvswitch only runs
> on
> > the root namespace, how will vms within another namespace on the same
> host
> > communicate with each other? Is this still possible? I forgot to mention
> > this earlier, but I need communication between vms within one container
> on
> > the same host, as well as between containers on different hosts.
>
> The VMs can still communicate through the vSwitch in the root
> namespace, even if they are in the same host.
>
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