[ovs-discuss] How to get 2 vms on 2 different physical hosts to communicate using openvswitch

[Ben Pfaff]

The difference is that this doesn't use a GRE tunnel.

(Why should I have guessed that you wanted to configure a GRE tunnel?)

On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 12:14:11PM -0700, Aishwarya wrote:
> What is the difference between this and using the gre tunnel?
> 
> Thanks,
> Aish
> 
> On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 12:09:51PM -0700, Aishwarya wrote:
> > > Lets say I have 2 hosts with ip address 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2, both on
> > the
> > > same subnet.
> > > Now, i have a vm1 with ip address 192.168.0.1 on host 1 and vm2 with ip
> > > address 192.168.0.2 on host 2. I have openvswitch installed on both
> > hosts.
> > > what are the next few configuration steps to get this working. Thanks for
> > > your help.
> >
> > On each machine, add the physical and virtual Ethernet interfaces to
> > an OVS bridge.
> >