[ovs-discuss] Xen Cloud Plataform with ovs in user space

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Thu Aug 9 22:14:01 UTC 2012


On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Rui Vaz <rui.wax at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How can I run open vswitch in user space inside Xen Cloud Platform Dom 0
> (which comes with ovs by default).
> I don't want to use the ovs kernel modules in order to verify the
> performance differences between ovs in user space only and kernel space.
> Has anyone done this before?

For existing bridges you can change the type using:
ovs-vsctl set bridge BR datapath_type=netdev



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