[ovs-discuss] Problem adding eth0 as port (device busy)

[Jesse Gross]

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 11:59:13AM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote:
>> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Bjørnar Ness <bjornar.ness at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Using OVS 1.4.1 and kernel 3.3.5 with OVS
>> >
>> > OVS running in kvm, trying to add eth0 as a port on bridge0
>> > with no success. No other bridge running.
>>
>> What about the Linux bridge?  I suspect that eth0 is attached to it.
>
> This came out of a discussion in #openvswitch.  When I asked him for
> "brctl show" output he had to go install brctl.  So it's probably not
> a bridge.

My guess is that something is attached to the rx handler hook.  Grepping found:
 * macvlan
 * bonding
 * teaming
 * bridging
 * OVS