[ovs-discuss] ovs 2.8 with ocata devstack environment

[Ben Pfaff]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 09:43:19AM +0530, Sailas Babu wrote:
> I am trying to spawn VMs using ocata devstack  with ovs 2.8 version.
> wanted to check few specific (  mpls o gre) patches that are only available
> in ovs 2.8 .
> 
> ocata inherently using 2.6 version , which i stopped manaully and ovs
> version upgraded to ovs 2.8 .  i am facing few problems
> 1. if i install ovs 2.8 as root ,  when i run stack.sh  as stack user (
> stack user has given sudo permissions rights ) , the bridges it try to
> access ( br-int , br -ex ) are not accessible ( though br-int , br-ex
> exists )  and devstack getting timed at waiting for br-int to be available.

I guess that OpenStack needs to use "sudo" to run ovs-ofctl and
ovs-vsctl.