Thanks for explanation, happy to see it works with KVM
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hugo Trippaers [mailto:trip...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 2:29 PM
> To: Frank Zhang
> Cc: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: Re: OVS KVM support
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-101
>
> Hey Frank
>
> It's a replacement for linux bridge at the moment.
>
> It uses ova-vsctl to create and check bridge interfaces and it used the
> virtualinterface tags in libvirt to create the virtual interfaces with ovs.
> The
> main reason for doing this type of integration was that openvswitch is
> required on a KVM hypervisor for it to be used with Nicira and the CloudStack
> nicira plugin. So i needed to make sure that bridge configuration could work
> with ovs.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Hugo
>
>
> On Feb 7, 2013, at 11:20 PM, Frank Zhang <frank.zh...@citrix.com> wrote:
>
> > Curious question, what level of support do we have in this feature?
> > Is it a simple replacement for Linux bridge? Or have some openflow
> features been used for isolation or firewall?
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Hugo Trippaers [mailto:trip...@gmail.com]
> >> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 2:00 PM
> >> To: Angeline Shen
> >> Cc: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org
> >> Subject: Re: OVS KVM support
> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-101
> >>
> >> Hello
> >>
> >> Op 7 feb. 2013 om 22:49 heeft Angeline Shen
> >> <angeline.s...@citrix.com> het volgende geschreven:
> >>
> >>> This message is for Hugo Trippaers / Cloudstack-dev Community:
> >>>
> >>> Hi Hugo:
> >>>
> >>> 1. Per https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-101
> >>>
> >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-824
> >>>
> >>> Show Hugo Trippaers added a comment - 21/Jan/13 16:41
> >>> see branch "cloud-agent-with-openvswitch", documentation is
> >>> part of
> >> the install guide
> >>>
> >>> please indicate URL for "install guide" you referred to per
> >>> your
> >> comment above.
> >>
> >> It is part of the CloudStack installation manual. The chapter on KVM
> >> was updated with the open vswitch details.
> >>
> >>>
> >>> 2. Please provide URLs for OVS functional spec
> >>
> >> There is none, haven't gotten around to writing one yet.
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 3. Search ing for Openvswitch configuration for testing with
> >>> KVM.
> >>> Does above install guide include OVS configuration?
> >>>
> >>
> >> It provides a sample configuration in the installation documentation.
> >>
> >>> 4. Which Xenserver version has been tested with OVS?
> >>
> >> I don't know which versions of xenserver support openvswitch, but I'm
> >> using 5.6, 6.0 and 6.0.2
> >>
> >>>
> >>> 5. Which KVM ( 6.3 6.2) version should ovs be tested with
> >> Cloudplatform?
> >>
> >> I think you mean CloudStack :-)
> >>
> >> KVM has no version numbers as far as I know. Most of the tests have
> >> been done on a gentoo system with a recent kernel and openvswitch
> >> 1.7.1 and libvirt 0.9.11
> >>
> >> But centos 6.3 works as well, provided the libvirt has the correct
> >> version. I validated the procedures in the installation manual with a
> >> centos
> 6.3 system.
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>
> >> Hope this helps
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Hugo
