[ovs-discuss] Query regarding OVS configuration in OpenSuse Dom0 (Xen Hypervisor)

Gurucharan Shetty gshetty at nicira.com
Thu Feb 9 15:56:56 UTC 2012


On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Mohit Dhingra <mohitdhingras at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Jesse. I tried the same. Firstly I disconnected interfaces vif4.0,
> vif5.0, and peth0 from the Bridge eth0 (that Xen created).
>
> Then I created a bridge named br0, and connected peth0, vif4.0, vif5.0 to
> br0 using ovs-vsctl commands. IP Addresses assigned to peth0 are
> 10.112.10.50, and to vif4.0 & 5.0 are .53, .52 respectively. I am able to
> ping from VM1 to VM2 (that is from .53 to .52, even from other hosts in LAN)
> , but I am not  able to ping to the Dom0 (that is .50, either from VMs or
> from any host in LAN). Is there something I am missing out.?

You probably wanted to assign the IP address to br0 instead of peth0?

>
> ----------------------------
> Thanks & Regards
> Mohit Dhingra
> +919611190435
>
>
> On 8 February 2012 23:03, Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 6:47 AM, Mohit Dhingra <mohitdhingras at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I think, Xen renames eth0 to peth0, and creates a bridge called eth0.
>> >
>> > Now, if I create one more bridge br0, using ovs-sctl, does it make
>> > sense?
>> > Should I change the Xen configuration such that Xen doesn't create a
>> > bridge,
>> > rather it should be created by ovs? Please suggest.
>>
>> The physical interface and the VM's interface need to be in the same
>> bridge.  If you are trying to interoperate with existing scripts it
>> may make sense to use the same name, otherwise it doesn't matter to
>> OVS.
>>
>> > One more question..Does OVS also monitors incoming traffic onto the VMs?
>>
>> What do you mean by that?
>
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