[ovs-discuss] Libvirt does not let me choose the OVS bridge...

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Tue Jan 22 16:13:17 UTC 2013


On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 01:37:25PM -0200, Martinx - ?$B%8%'!<%`%: wrote:
>  Anyway, I have only one question related to Open vSwitch, in a nut shell,
> what the following line does?
> 
>  "ovs-vsctl add-port ovsbr0 ovsbr0p1 -- set interface ovsbr0p1
> type=internal"
> 
>  ...since I'm not using it and my VM have network connectivity as
> expected...

It adds an internal port that you can configure a host IP address on.
I don't know why you would do that, either, unless you need an extra
host IP address.



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