[ovs-discuss] Open vSwitch Xenserver 6

[Mauricio Perez]

Ben,

    Thank you for the awnser, now I started to understand how Open vSwitch
works with XenServer.
    I found where to use VLAN with Xenserver. Your information were very
useful.

Thank's

2012/8/16 Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>

> 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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