[ovs-discuss] Newbie question

[Ben Pfaff]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 06:03:02PM -0800, Tyrion Lannister wrote:
> I just installed OpenVswitch 1.3.0 on Centos 6 with KVM QEMU. I have some
> basic questions:
> 
> 1) I add a bridge br0 - ovs-vsctl add-br br0
> 2) I attach eth0 to br0 - ovs-vsctl add-port br0 eth0
> 
> I havent added any VMs yet, but I expect to still reach the hypervisor
> using IP.
> 
> eth0 is getting an IP address from the network using DHCP. But it is not
> pingable anymore.
> 
> Shouldnt eth0 be a slave of br0 at this point. Shouldnt it be bridge0 that
> should own the address? How does one talk to the hypervisor at this point?

Yes.  Put the IP address on br0.