[ovs-discuss] Disabling ovsdb-server

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Fri Sep 19 14:59:41 UTC 2014


On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 04:24:38PM +0200, Pawe?? Szczepaniak wrote:
> I wanted to disable starting ovsdb-server on our debian servers, as
> we don't need it and it can cause problems after hard reboot.
> We use it with LACP, configured in /etc/network/interfaces. On
> machine we have also installed XEN, which is creatig vifs for each
> guest. Problem appear after hard reboot, when all vifs from db are
> created and we cannot start domUs, because we cannot create vif for
> it.
> 
> Currently I simply remove conf.db on start, so when it starts,
> create a new file and fill it, but it's not cleanest solution. We
> would like to get rid of ovsdb-server running after
> openvswitch-switch, but I was unable to track down method for it.

It's a bad idea not to run ovsdb-server.



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