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

[Bjørnar Ness]

On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 12:43:59PM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote:
> 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

Found out what was causing this, a macvlan interface attached to eth0
was actually running on the vm.

Thanks for help, guys.

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Bjornar