[ovs-discuss] Open vSwitch Xenserver 6

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Thu Aug 16 15:01:45 UTC 2012


On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:27:26AM -0300, Mauricio Perez wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
>          I'm trying to use Open vSwitch in Xenserver 6, but my license is
> free. I've seen that Xenserver 6 uses a network backend as openvswitch by
> default. I can see that on the file /etc/xensource/network.conf. I can run
> the "ovs-vsctl" commands, apparenttly it works, because it don't give me
> any error.
>          I've tyred to run:
>              ovs-vsctl add-br br0
>              ovs-vsctl add-port br0 eth0
>              ovs-vsctl add-port br0 tap0 tag=1
> 
> But when I run ifconfig it doen't show me the interfave br0 or an interface
> tap0. 

Is ovs-vswitchd running?

> And I'm not figuring how to make the VM's use the VLAN interface.

You have to configure that with XenCenter or xe.  (XAPI will create its
own VLAN interfaces, though.  It won't use the ones that you created.)



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