[ovs-discuss] Openvswitch and Linux containers

[Jesse Gross]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Aishwarya <aishu85 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to run openvswitch and vms within linux containers. I am
> separating out the network and mount spaces within the container, so that I
> can reuse ip addresses for the vms within the container. So, what I need is
> that the openvswitch running in one container should not see the flows
> configured in the openvswitch running in the other container. Does
> openvswitch support this kind of setup (considering that the flows are
> ultimately written into the kernel module, which is going to be identical
> for both containers) or can we configure it in some way to have this
> property?

No, it does not support running separate instances of Open vSwitch
within different namespaces.  However, most people with this type of
setup actually want to run OVS in the root namespace to switch between
the VMs, which should work.